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Teamwork, Testimony, and History: 2025 Arrington Lecture Features Richard E. Turley Jr.

Thursday, September 18, 2025, 7:00 PM | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall, Logan Campus

Questions? Contact Sara Grove, Senior Administrative Assistant | sara.grove@usu.edu

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This year’s Arrington Lecture welcomes noted historian Richard E. Turley Jr., whose career has shaped how the Latter-day Saint historical record is researched and shared.

Event Details
  • Lecture Title: Team History: The Latter-day Saint Historical Enterprise, 1986–2025
  • Time/Date: 7:00 PM, Thursday, September 18, 2025
  • Time: 7:00 PM
  • Location: Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall, Utah State University Logan Campus
Event is free and open to the public.

This fall, Utah State University Libraries will host the annual Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture, featuring distinguished historian Richard E. Turley Jr. His lecture, titled Team History: The Latter-day Saint Historical Enterprise, 1986–2025, will explore how collaboration transformed modern Latter-day Saint history research.

About Richard Turley

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Richard E. Turley Jr. has authored or edited more than twenty books on Latter-day Saint history.

Richard E. Turley Jr. is the former managing director of the Church History and Family History Departments of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where he helped envision, launch, and lead many of the church’s most important historical projects of the last four decades. He has also authored or edited more than twenty books on Latter-day Saint and Western United States history.

He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Herbert Feis Award for distinguished contributions to public history from the American Historical Association, the Historic Preservation Medal from the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Leonard J. Arrington Award from the Mormon History Association. Earlier this year, he and coauthor Barbara Jones Brown received the Juanita Brooks Best Book in Utah History Award from the Utah Historical Society for their book Vengeance Is Mine. He is currently writing a biography of church founder Joseph Smith.