Davis Bitton (1930–2007)
Auteur de The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints
A propos de l'auteur
Davis Bitton was born in Blackfoot, Idaho, in 1930. After graduating from Brigham Young University, he earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Princeton University. He had faculty appointments at the University of Texas, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and since 1966, the University of afficher plus Utah, where he was professor of Renaissance and Reformation history. In 1995 he retired and became an emeritus professor. Always interested in Mormon history, Bitton was among the charter members of the Mormon History Association and served as its president. Starting in 1972, he served as assistant church historian for 10 years. Compiler of a massive reference work summarizing 2,800 diaries and autobiographies, he has also authored or coauthored several books afficher moins
Œuvres de Davis Bitton
Mormons, Scripture, and the Ancient World: Studies in Honor of John L. Sorenson (1998) — Directeur de publication — 24 exemplaires
New Views of Mormon History: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington (1987) 14 exemplaires
Historical Dictionary of Mormonism (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series) (1994) 13 exemplaires
The Martyrdom Remembered: A One-Hundred-Fifty-Year Perspective on the Assassination of Joseph Smith (1994) 8 exemplaires
The reminiscences and Civil War letters of Levi Lamoni Wight: Life in a Mormon splinter colony on the Texas frontier (1970) — Directeur de publication — 4 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Revelation, Reason, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen (2002) — Contributeur — 21 exemplaires
The Disciple As Witness: Essays on Latter-Day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson (2000) — Contributeur — 19 exemplaires
Excavating Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century (2004) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited: NAUVOO IN MORMON HISTORY (1996) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
A Christmas to Remember: A Collection of Favorite Holiday Memories (1990) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Journal of Book of Mormon Studies - Volume 8, Number 2 (1999) (1999) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Action and conviction in early modern Europe : essays in memory of E. H. Harbison (1969) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
A New Light Breaks Forth. Essays in Mormon History. Edited By Lyndon W. Cook & Donald Q. Cannon. (1980) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Lives of the Saints: Writing Mormon Biography and Autobiography (2002) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
The Twentieth Century American West: Contributions to an Understanding (1983) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Restoration Studies I: Sesquicentennial Edition: A Collection of Essays About the History, Beliefs, and Practices of… (1980) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Utah Historical Quarterly - Vol. 54, No. 4, Fall 1986 - Against Great Odds (1986) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Pioneers in the Pacific: Memory, History, and Cultural Identity Among the Latter-Day Saints (2005) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Utah Historical Quarterly - Vol. 43, No. 1, Winter 1975 - Cultural Perspectives (1975) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Utah Historical Quarterly - Vol. 46, No. 2, Spring 1978 - Views of Utah Women (1978) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Utah Historical Quarterly - Vol. 46, No. 4, Fall 1978 - Challenges of the Utah Environment (1978) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Celebrating the LDS Past: Essays Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the 1972 Founding of the LDS Church Historical… (1992) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 21, Number 3 (Fall 1988) (1988) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Skeleton in Grandpa's Barn: And Other Stories of Growing Up in Utah (2008) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 1, Number 3 (Autumn 1966) (1966) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 2, Number 4 (Winter 1967) (1967) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Mormon Historical Studies - Vol. 8, Nos. 1-2 (Spring/Fall 2007) (2007) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 3, Number 4 (Winter 1968) (1968) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 7, Number 4 (Winter 1972) (1972) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 9, Number 1 (Spring 1974) (1974) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 10, Number 3 (Spring 1977) (1977) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 11, Number 4 (Winter 1978) (1978) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 12, Number 3 (Autumn 1979) (1979) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 16, Number 3 (Autumn 1983) (1983) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Bitton, Ronald Davis
- Date de naissance
- 1930-02-22
- Date de décès
- 2007-04-13
- Lieu de sépulture
- Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Blackfoot, Idaho, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- Études
- Princeton University (PhD|French History|1961)
Princeton University (MA|History|1958)
Brigham Young University (BA|History|1956) - Professions
- historian
Professor of History
Assistant Church Historian - Relations
- Bitton, JoAn (wife)
- Organisations
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Assistant Church Historian)
University of Utah
University of Texas at Austin
University of California, Santa Barbara
Brigham Young University-Hawaii
Mormon History Association (president) - Prix et distinctions
- Leonard J. Arrington Award (2006)
Assistant Church Historian
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Critiques
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 18
- Aussi par
- 70
- Membres
- 360
- Popularité
- #66,630
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 26