Item Detail
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English
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Church Historians I Have Known
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Winter 1978
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11
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14-22
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The author reminisces about the lives and work of four Mormon historians who influenced his own development as a Mormon historian. B. H. Roberts, author of THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH and president of the Church of the Latter-day Saints, attempted to break away from writing church history as propaganda. Andrew Jenson represents an earlier type of Mormon historian who collected historical information and documents, a chronicle striving for complete and accurate coverage. Similarly, A. William Lund, assistant historian in the Church Historian's Office, saw his responsibility as preserving documents and books, rather than making them accessible for use. Church historian Howard W. Hunger visited the author in Nauvoo, Illinois, and praised him for the concept of a church history that was people-oriented, not concerned only with abstractions. Based on an address to the Mormon History Association, Salt Lake City, utah, 12 April 1973. (C. B. Schulz)