American historian
Eugene Edward "Gene" Campbell (April 26, 1915 – April 10, 1986)[ 1] American professor of history atBrigham Young University .
Campbell was born and raised inTooele, Utah , in a working-classLatter-day Saint family, Edward Campbell and Betsy Ann Bowen. When Campbell was fourteen, his father, who was arailroad engineer , died suddenly. His mother was active in the community and her elected position as county treasurer helped the family survive theGreat Depression .[ 1]
Education and military service [ edit ] Following his 1933 graduation fromTooele High School , his interest in sports led him to attendSnow Junior College inEphraim, Utah . He was not very active in sports andstudent government and received hisAssociate of Arts degree in 1935. Then he served as amissionary forthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) inEastern Canada . After returning home in 1937 and studying history at theUniversity of Utah , Campbell received hisbachelor's degree in history with honors in 1939 and hismaster's degree in 1940.[ 1]
In 1939, Campbell married Beth Larsen, whom he knew in high school and had dated for seven years. They would have five children.[ 1]
After teachingLDS Seminary part-time for a year, Campbell became a full-time instructor from 1940 to 1944 inWayne County, Utah , andMagna, Utah .
From 1944 to 1946, duringWorld War II , Campbell served in theChaplain Corps of theUnited States Army as aFirst Lieutenant . He attended Chaplains School atHarvard University and was assigned to the71st Infantry Division and received twobattle stars .[ 1]
After the war, Campbell returned to religious teaching in the LDSChurch Educational System , this time in the church'sInstitutes of Religion , first as Institute director atIdaho State University inPocatello , then as associate director atUtah State University atLogan . Campbell completed hisPh.D. at theUniversity of Southern California in 1952, writing hisdissertation on the history ofthe LDS Church in California .[ 1]
After completing his education, Campbell taught atRicks College inRexburg, Idaho , until joining the history faculty of BYU from 1956 to 1980. At BYU, Campbell worked in various capacities and held many positions, including the history department's acting chair (1958–59) and chair (1960–67), chair of Visiting Professor Lectureships (1965), tour leader for BYU Tours of Europe, associate director for a study abroad program (1965), board member of theCharles Redd Center for Western Studies (1972–80), member of the Athletic Advisory Council, member of the Graduate Council, member of the Faculty Advisor Council, president of the BYU chapter ofAAUP (1965–66), member of the board of editors forBYU Studies Church College of Hawaii , while on leave from BYU in 1967–68.[ 1]
Campbell was also involved in the larger historical community. In 1965 he was one of the co-founders of theMormon History Association , served as its first vice president, and the next year was its second president. He was active in theUtah State Historical Society , serving as president of itsUtah Valley Chapter in 1968 and a Fellow in 1978, an honor only given to fifteen others before, including toFawn Brodie ,Leonard J. Arrington ,LeRoy Hafen andJuanita Brooks . Campbell was a member of theDanforth Associates and theWestern History Association , and consulted for theNational Endowment for the Humanities for many years starting in 1975.[ 1]
List of publications [ edit ] The following is a list of Campbell's published work:
Fielding, R. Kent; Eugene E. Campbell (1964).The United States, An Interpretive History . New York:Harper & Row . Campbell, Eugene E.;Richard D. Poll (1975).Hugh B. Brown, His Life and Thought . Salt Lake City, Utah:Bookcraft .ISBN 0-88494-293-7 Gowans, Fred R. ; Eugene E. Campbell (1975).Fort Bridger, Island in the Wilderness Brigham Young University Press .ISBN 0-8425-0419-2 ———; ——— (1976).Fort Supply: Brigham Young's Green River Experiment . Provo, Utah:Brigham Young University Publications. Poll, Richard D. ; Miller, David E.; Campbell, Eugene E.;Alexander, Thomas G. , eds. (1978).Utah's History . Provo, Utah:Brigham Young University Press .ISBN 0-8425-0842-2 Roylance, Ward J.; Eugene E. Campbell (1982).Utah, A Guide to the State (Revised and enlarged ed.). Salt Lake City: Utah, A Guide to the State Foundation.OCLC 8638908 . Campbell, Eugene E. (1988).Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847–69 Signature Books .ISBN 0-941214-62-1 ——— (1992). "Foreword".The Essential Brigham Young . Classics in Mormon Thought. Vol. 3. Salt Lake City, Utah:Signature Books .ISBN 1-56085-010-8 Campbell, Eugene E. (1940). "The Government of Utah, 1847–1851". [masters thesis]. Salt Lake City: Department of History,University of Utah . {{cite journal }}:Cite journal requires|journal= (help ) ——— (1952). "A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in California, 1846-1946". [doctoral thesis]. Los Angeles:University of Southern California . {{cite journal }}:Cite journal requires|journal= (help ) ——— (1960). "This Was the Place".BYU Speeches of the Year, 1959–1960 . [Delivered to student body, July 23, 1959]. Provo, Utah:Brigham Young University . ——— (1960). "The Physical and Political Setting of the New Testament".New Testament Conference . Provo, Utah:Brigham Young University . pp. 34– 42.ISBN 91-22-00929-9 ——— (August 19–20, 1977). "The Early Utah Period (1847-69)".Church Educational System Religious Educators' Symposium . pp. 42– 44. Eugene Campbell reviewed numerous books for various academic journals.
"The First 100 Years: A History of the Salt Lake Tribune, 1871–1971" .BYU Studies 12 (1):142– 44. Autumn 1971."In Pursuit of the Golden Dream: Reminiscences of San Francisco and the Northern and Southern Mines" .Utah Historical Quarterly .40 (1):90– 91. Winter 1972.doi :10.2307/45059242 .JSTOR 45059242 .S2CID 254432889 . Archived fromthe original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved2019-08-12 ."Twelve Mormon Homes Visited in Succession on a Journey Through Utah to Arizona" .BYU Studies 15 (4):543– 45. Summer 1975."Charles C. Rich [and] David Eccles by Leonard Arrington".Western Historical Quarterly 7 (2):200– 02. April 1976.doi :10.2307/967521 .JSTOR 967521 . "A Biography of Ezra Thompson Clark" .Utah Historical Quarterly .44 (3):303– 04. Summer 1976.doi :10.2307/45059697 .JSTOR 45059697 .S2CID 254431938 . Archived fromthe original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved2019-08-12 ."Spencer W. Kimball" (PDF) .Sunstone 3 (5):29– 30. July–August 1978."The Genteel Gentile: Letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857–1858" .BYU Studies 19 (1):127– 28. Fall 1978.Campbell, Eugene E; Brooks, Juanita; Haywood, Martha Spence (April 1979). "Not By Bread Alone: The Journal of Martha Spence Haywood, 1850–56".Western Historical Quarterly 10 (2):239– 40.doi :10.2307/968043 .JSTOR 968043 . "Deseret's Sons of Toil".Nevada Historical Society Quarterly .23 :127– 28. Summer 1980. "Brother Brigham" .BYU Studies 21 (1):125– 28. Winter 1981."Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer" .Utah Historical Quarterly .50 (1):91– 92. Winter 1982.doi :10.2307/45061358 .JSTOR 45061358 .S2CID 254429000 . Archived fromthe original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved2019-08-12 ."The Saints and the Union, Utah Territory During the Civil War" .BYU Studies 22 (4):500– 01. Fall 1982."Mormon Thunder".Western Humanities Review .37 (4):354– 56. Winter 1983. "Revised But Unchanged" .Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 16 (4):148– 49. Winter 1983.doi :10.2307/45225207 JSTOR 45225207 .S2CID 254392915 . Archived fromthe original on 2011-06-14."Saints, Slaves, and Blacks".Nevada Historical Society Quarterly .27 (1):54– 55. Spring 1984. "Not Quite What Was Promised, But Much More" .Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 18 (1):162– 63. Spring 1985. Archived fromthe original on 2011-06-14. Retrieved2019-08-12 .Campbell, Eugene E.; Richard T. Maher (July 17, 1973). "Eugene Campbell Oral History Interview" (Transcript and audio tapes). LDS Military Chaplains Oral History Project. Provo, Utah:L. Tom Perry Special Collections ,Harold B. Lee Library ,Brigham Young University . {{cite journal }}:Cite journal requires|journal= (help ) Bennett, Clea R. (April 5, 1980). "My Most Influential Teacher".Church News Deseret News . p. 2. Campbell, Eugene E.; Anita Louise Hummel (November 19, 1982). "Interview, 1982" (Interview transcript). Ray Hillam War Project. Provo, Utah:L. Tom Perry Special Collections ,Harold B. Lee Library ,Brigham Young University . {{cite journal }}:Cite journal requires|journal= (help ) Gowans, Fred R. (Summer 1986)."In Memoriam: Eugene E. Campbell, 1915–86" .Utah Historical Quarterly .54 (3):286– 87.doi :10.2307/45061605 .JSTOR 45061605 .S2CID 254437350 . Archived fromthe original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved2019-08-12 .[ edit ] Fort Bridger: Island in the Wilderness
Davis, W. N., Jr. (January 1976).Western Historical Quarterly 7 : 80. Murray, Robert A. (Winter 1976).Utah Historical Quarterly 44 (1):98–99 . Raines, Edgar Frank, Jr. (Summer 1976).Arizona and the West 18 : 185–87. Mattes, Merrill J. (Fall 1976).Colorado Magazine 53 : 380–81. Fort Supply: Brigham Young's Green River Experiment
Edwards, Elbert B. (Spring 1978).Utah Historical Quarterly 46 (2):205–06 . Utah's History
Petersen, Scott R. (August 1978).Mountainwest 4 : 58. (June–July 1979).Frontier Times 53 : 39. Layton, Stanford J. (September–October 1979).American West 16 : 54–55. Smith, Melvin T. (January 1980).Western Historical Quarterly Sillito, John R. (Spring 1982).Idaho Yesterdays 26 : 37–38. Utah: A Guide to the State
Establishing Zion
(October 1, 1988).Church News 13 . Etter, Patricia A. (December 1988).Books of the Southwest (361): 9. Walker, Ronald W. (Spring 1989).BYU Studies 29 (2):126–27 .Smith, Melvin T. (Spring 1989).Utah Historical Quarterly 57 (2):181–83 . Pointer, Richard W. (April 1989).Pacific Northwest Quarterly 80 (2): 73. Parrish, William Earl (July 1989).Journal of the West 28 (3): 92. Sadler, Richard W. (Fall 1989).Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 22 (3):152–154 . Lyman, E. Leo (November 1989).Western Historical Quarterly 20 (4): 454–55. DePillis, Mario S. (December 1989).Journal of American History 76 (3): 933–34. May, Dean L. (June 1990).Sunstone 14 (3):55–56 Archived 2012-02-26 at theWayback Machine . Peterson, Charles S. (July 1990).New Mexico Historical Review 65 (3): 384–85. The Essential Brigham Young
Guarneri, Carl. (Spring 1993).Journal of the Early Republic 13 (1): 110–12. Jones, Gerald E. (December 1993).Church History 62 (4): 573–74.
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