Dale L. Morgan-S. A. Burgess Historian, Reorganized Church, 1940-1943

File — Box: 2, Folder: 23

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Scope and Contents

Morgan defense statements in State of Deseret, 1940.
Morgan answers Burgess' criticisms.
Morgan outlines plans for a book on American society between 1800 and 1861 to be called This was America. This book he hopes will serve as a background study for his three-volume Mormon history. He asks for permission to use materials owned by the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of which Burgess is historian. Morgan describes his background and his philosophical approach to Mormon history--"as a practical historian, one must take the standpoint that causes and effect proceed directly out of human behavior, that men's difficulties are occasioned by human inadequacy, not by any special favor or disfavor granted to individuals by 'God.' So my viewpoint about Mormon history is that of the sociologist, the psychologist, the political, economic, and social historian," 1943.

Dates

1940-1943

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