Mormonism and history
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The Mormon religion is predicated on what are said to be historical events such as the First Vision of Joseph Smith and the historicity of the Book of Mormon, which describes a detailed pre-Columbian
Mormon handcart pioneers are memorialized on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah.
A non-LDS representation of Joseph Smith translating the golden plates by looking at seer stones at the bottom of a hat. Most eyewitnesses described Smith as translating the plates by burying his face in a hat to block out the light; but little church-produced art portrays the process in this way.
Leonard J. Arrington
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Leonard James Arrington was an American author, academic and the founder of the Mormon History Association. He is known as the "Dean of Mormon History" and "the Father of Mormon History" because of hi
Mormonism and history
…past in the hope of understanding it" rather than attacking or defending the religion itself. The most noted of the early New Mormon Historians was Leonard J. Arrington, who earned his doctorate in economics but whose early work culminated in the publication of Great Basin Kingdom, An Economic History of the Latter-day…
Arrington in the 1950s
Utah State University
Arrington's office was in the Harold B. Lee Library from 1972 to 1980