Davis Bitton
Davis Bitton was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Utah at the time of his death in 2007. His PhD was from Princeton University, where his specialty was the French Renaissance. He was a founding member of the Mormon History Association and served as its president in 1971–72, and from 1972 to 1982 he was the Assistant Church Historian for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His research in Mormon history is broad and well known. Among his award-winning works are George Q. Cannon: A Biography (1999) and, with Leonard Arrington, The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints (1979).
BYU Studies Publications
- “Is Not This of God?”: An 1847 Proposal for Mormon Settlement
- Crossing the Threshold of Hope
- Demographic Limits of Nineteenth-Century Mormon Polygyny
- George Francis Train and Brigham Young
- Joseph Smith: Selected Sermons and Writings
- Joseph Smith: The First Mormon
- Kirtland as a Center of Missionary Activity, 1830-1838
- Mesmerism and Mormonism
- Mischievous Puck and the Mormons, 1904–1907
- Missouri Thoughts (April 15, 1972)
- N. L. Nelson and The Mormon Point of View
- Plural Marriage in St. George: A Summary and an Invitation
- Probing the High Prevalence of Polygyny in St. George, 1861–1880: An Introduction
- Strange Ramblings: The Ideal and Practice of Sermons in Early Mormonism
- The Autobiography of B. H. Roberts
- The Church through the Years, vol. 1
- The Encyclopedia of Mormonism
- The Refiner’s Fire [2]: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844
- The Waning of Mormon Kirtland
- Three books on visual images in the history of the Church [2]