From Deseret News archives:
'Unvarnished' Mormon history lectures
10 speeches make profound contribution on LDS past, culture
Established in 1995 by the Special Collections and Archives of Utah State University in Logan, the Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture Series specifically honored the unparalleled contribution made to Mormon history by its most important historian. Arrington, an Idaho native trained as an economist at the University of North Carolina, went on to become a legend in his own time as an excellent teacher of economics and history at USU.
In the classroom or at the pulpit, Arrington was an incomparable presence charismatic, witty, affable, his head filled with wonderful stories from history and he could command a room as few historians have ever done. He was also infinitely approachable, willing and interested in helping the struggling student, the graduate student or the historical colleague.
During the 1960s, Arrington researched and wrote numerous biographies and institutional histories that sparked the careers of many younger scholars who looked to him for inspiration. In 1973 he was appointed LDS Church historian, the first time a bona fide scholar had ever held the position; and he assumed the newly created Lemuel Redd Chair of Western History at Brigham Young University. During a highly productive period of 10 years (called by many "the years of Camelot") Arrington widely encouraged the writing of Mormon history and created a much more open intellectual atmosphere than had ever pervaded the LDS Church Archives.
His two definitive works are "The Mormon Experience," a work intended to appeal to the non-Mormon reader, co-authored with Davis Bitton, and "American Moses: A Biography of Brigham Young." Arrington died in 1999.
The 10 lectures in this book are by prominent Mormon or Western historians. The first, by Arrington himself, "Faith and Intellect as Partners in Mormon History," carefully prepares the way for the open, unvarnished approach to history followed by his students.
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