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Originally Posted by Solon

Quinn edited a collection of essays called The New Mormon History: Revisionist Essays on the Past (Signature 1992) that included articles by many historians, including faithful LDS historical heavyweights Leonard Arrington and Dean May. In the introduction, Quinn traces "New Mormon History" to Juanita Brooks, although there "were certainly antecedents." The term New Mormon History (again, according to the intro.) was coined by (a non-LDS historian) Moses Rischin in 1969.

FWIW, Quinn is hard on Brodie, stating that her work, although "erudite and literary," has "more in common with the sins of traditional Mormon history. She discussed fundamental issues of Joseph Smith's life without taking his religious claims seriously and filtered her evidence and analysis through the perspective that the Mormon prophet was at best a 'parapath' and at worst a charlatan." (intro., pg. xiv).

Thank you, at least Quinn saw Brodie for what she was, a charlatan or parapath herself.