It was the first time a professional historian was given this job.
In conjunction with his teaching appointment at BYU, Arrington was also appointed as the first Church Historian for the LDS Church from 1972 to 1982. He taught Western American History at Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1972 to 1987. After a Fulbright professorship at the University of Genoa in Italy, Arrington raised funds to pay for research and writing on LDS (Mormon) biographies. While teaching at the Utah State Agricultural College in Logan, Utah, Harvard University Press published his book Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830–1900 in 1958.
After high school, he studied agricultural economics at the University of Idaho and continued studying economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Arrington (diary, August 1972) Īrrington grew up in a large family in Idaho, where he and his family were members of the LDS Church. This means that I stand on two legs-the leg of faith and the leg of reason." On the other hand, I am called to be a historian, which means that I must earn the respect of professional historians-what I write must be craftsmanlike, credible, and of good quality. On the one hand, I am the Church Historian and must seek to build testimonies, spread the word, build the Kingdom. This was also prompted by the necessity of writing an article appraising President Joseph Fielding Smith as a historian. "As a result of yesterday’s meeting with the First Presidency I have been thinking and praying about my calling as Church Historian.
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