HISTORY’S APPRENTICE: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON B. H. ROBERTS Though he has been dead for more than seventy years, B. H. Roberts remains a significant Mormon historian and theologian, and he’s considered one of the Church’s premier intellectuals. This presentation draws on my experience as the editor of his journals covering the period from 1880–1898, a crucial period in LDS history. The journals tells us much about Roberts’ early life, his growth from young missionary to general authority, but also illuminates his struggle with Church officials over politics and his resistance to the Woodruff Manifesto which ended the practice of polygamy. In short, they offer new clues into the life of one of Mormonism’s leading thinkers and help us better understand his impact on the times in which he lived.

John Sillito