Brigham D. Madsen
RIGHAM D. MADSEN is Professor Emeritus of History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and editor of B. H. Roberts's Studies of the Book of Mormon.
Mining Mormon Gold | J. Kenneth Davies, Mormon Gold: The Story of California’s Mormon Argonauts
Articles/Essays – Volume 19, No. 1
This book is as much a history of the Mormon Church in California during the 1847-57 decade as it is a history of Mormon gold mining. The author gives a plethora of detail concerning both…
Read moreThe Education of a BYU Professor
Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 1
In the fall of 1948 I began my career as a teacher of history at Brigham Young University and continued there until I resigned in the spring of 1954. During those six years I was…
Read moreReflections on LDS Disbelief in the Book of Mormon as History
Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 3
Dialogue 30.3 (Fall 1999):90–103
To average LDS church members in 1909, Roberts’s New Witnesses for God substantiated their beliefs and further embellished his stature for them as a historian and defender of the Book of Mormon. But only thirteen years later Roberts was to change his mind and that dramatically.