Research Catalog

Title

Preserving the history of the Latter-day Saints / edited by Richard E. Turley, Jr., and Steven C. Harper.

Author

Brigham Young University Church History Symposium (2009)

Publication

Provo, Utah : Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University/Deseret Book, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Turley, Richard E.
• Harper, Steven Craig, 1970-

Description

viii, 275 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This book is a compilation of presentations selected from the annual BYU Church History Symposium hosted by BYU Religious Education. The presentors discuss the importance of record keeping and preserving the history of the Latter-day Saints. Topics range from the church's earliest efforts at record keeping to the challenging task of preserving its complex and increasingly global history.

Subject

• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > Historiography > Congresses
• Latter Day Saint churches > Historiography > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "Brigham Young University Church History Symposium."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliograpical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Making a case for church history / Marlin K. Jensen -- Assistant church historians and the publishing of church history / Richard E. Turley, Jr. -- "A history of all the important things" (D & C 69:3) : John Whitmer's record of church history / Scott C. Esplin -- William Clayton and the records of church history / James B. Allen -- Developing a historical conscience : Wilford Woodruff and the preservation of church history / Benjamin E. Park -- Ignored and unknown clues of early Mormon record keeping / Robin Scott Jensen -- Enlarging the memory of Mormonism : historian Andrew Jenson's tales from the world tour, 1895-97 / Reid L. Neilson -- Modern efforts to preserve church history / Ronald K. Esplin -- A generation of church history : a personal view / Ronald O. Barney -- Doing the impossible : documenting the worldwide Church / Matthew K. Heiss -- Documenting the history of the Church in South America : recovering the past / Mark L. Grover.

ISBN

9780842527774 (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010034374

OCLC

• 658200539
• SCSB-11211287

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library