James B. Allen (historian)

rdf:langString James B. Allen (historian)

rdf:langString James B. Allen

rdf:langString James B. Allen

rdf:langString B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in History

rdf:langString Author of Mormon histories, such as The Story of the Latter-day Saints

rdf:langString Historian

rdf:langString University professor

rdf:langString Renée Jones Allen

rdf:langString James Brown "Jim" Allen (born June 14, 1927) is an American historian of Mormonism and was an official Assistant Church Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1972 to 1979. While working as Assistant Church Historian, he co-authored The Story of the Latter-day Saints with Glen Leonard. After Ezra Taft Benson dismissed the book as secular new history, other events led to the dissolution of the LDS Church History department in 1982. Allen resigned as Assistant Church Historian in 1979, returning to work at Brigham Young University (BYU) full-time. He studied history at Utah State University (USU) for his Bachelor's, at BYU for his master's, and the University of Southern California for his PhD. After working as a seminary teacher and coordinator of seminaries, he joined the history department at BYU in 1964, where he was department chair from 1981 to 1987. After his retirement in 1992, he was a senior research fellow at the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History.