Perkins KeithW

American professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University (BYU) who has written widely on the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the period when it was headquartered at Kirtland, Ohio. Perkins has written articles on figures in the recording of the history of the LDS Church, such as Andrew Jenson, whose work as a historian was the subject of Perkins masters thesis. His thesis was cited in Charles T. Morrisseys article "We Call it Oral History", which moved the accepted time of the origin of the term back from the late-1940s to the mid-1860s. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less