Davis Bitton, "Mormon Historiography: Response to a Caricature", 1981

File — Box: 1, Folder: 4

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection: In 1981, Boyd K. Packer, an official of the LDS Church, and Louis C. Midgley, a professor of history at Brigham Young University, gave separate talks in which they asserted that LDS historians should write only "faith-promoting" history. This collection contains transcripts of these talks as well as correspondence and articles by several professional historians opposing this position and declaring that it is possible to write scholarly history about the LDS Church without being "anti-LDS."

Dates

1981

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