Against The Grain: An Interview With Historian, Educator, And Author Brigham D. Madsen As chief historian for Patton’s Third Army in Germany and observer of WWII War crimes trials at Nuremberg, Brig Madsen honed empirical skills he applied to an illustrious career as a Peace Corps manager in Washington, D.C., Vice President and history chair at the University of Utah, and award-winning author of fifteen books, including The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre, and editor of B.H. Roberts’s Studies of the Book of Mormon. Among the topics discussed will be Mormon historiography, treatment of Native Americans in Utah, his association with pillars of the community like Sterling M. McMurrin, and his opinions of the history and culture of Utah.

Brigham D. Madsen, George D. Smith