Famous Mormon historians
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[edit] Michael Quinn
[edit] Leonard J. Arrington
- "Leonard was appointed Church Historian because, in the words of Howard Hunter, the Church was at the time (1972) finally mature enough to tell the truth with regard to its history. About ten years later, he and his staff were removed from the Church Historian's office because the Church was in fact not ready to have its story told in the way professional historians are compelled by academic standards of objectivity and honesty to tell it. If you go to Church Headquarters today and look at the wall on which pictures of all of the Church's official historians hang, you will not find Arrington's. It is fair to say that he had a trying time during his experience with the Church's leaders as he tried to tell its story in a fashion that would be acceptable by academic standards of truthful scholarship, and would not unduly offend the Church's sensitivity to having the more colourful parts of its past made public." -Bob McCue [1]
