Jan Shipps

How did a Methodist girl born and raised in Hueytown, Alabama, during the Great Depression and World War II come to be Jan Shipps, a renowned non-Mormon historian and scholar of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? The authors tell the story of how Shipps not only became an important and trusted authority in a field that was at the time predominantly made up of Mormon men, but also the crucial role she played in legitimizing Mormon Studies.