Newell G. Bringhurst

Newell G. Bringhurst is Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California. He is the author of Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier, Fawn McKay Brodie: A Biographer’s Life, and co-editor of numerous titles, including Black and Mormon and The Mormon Church and Blacks: A Documentary History. Bringhurst is past president of both the Mormon History Association and the John Whitmer Historical Association. An active advocate of his community's history, he is currently president of the Tulare County Historical Society and the author of two volumes, Visalia's Fabulous Fox Theater: A History and College of the Sequoias: A Century of Excellence. He and his wife Mary Ann live in Visalia, California..

Newell is author of Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People Within Mormonism and Fawn McKay Brodie: A Biographer's Life, 2nd ed., and he is a co-editor of Excavating Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century.