William P. MacKinnon | |
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Born | [1] | September 9, 1939
Nationality | American |
Education | Mount Hermon School [2] |
Alma mater |
Yale Harvard (MBA, 1962) [3] |
Occupation(s) | Management consultant and former General Motors executive |
Known for | Independent historian |
Spouse | Patricia |
Awards | 2008
Mormon History Association
Thomas L. Kane Award Utah State Historical Society Dale L. Morgan and LeRoy S. Axland awards [4] |
Website | Occasional guest author – Keepapitchinin.org |
William P. MacKinnon, an American independent historian. A management consultant, MacKinnon is a historian of the American West, Mormon history, and Utah history [5] who was described by Richard E. Turley in 2018 as "the acknowledged expert" [6] and by Thomas G. Alexander in 2019 as "the most knowledgable authority" [7] on what was known in its time as the American War of the Mormons' Succession (or more recently "the Utah War"), a topic of which MacKinnon began his study as a Yale sophomore history major in 1958. [8] In 2018, MacKinnon presented the 35th Juanita Brooks Lecture at Dixie State University: "Across the Desert in 1858: Thomas L. Kane’s Mediating Mission and the Mormon Women who Made it Possible." [9] As of 2010 [update], MacKinnon lived in Santa Barbara with his wife, Patricia. [10]
MacKinnon has published over thirty journal articles on the history of the American West. In 2010, he contributed an article to Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia.
William P. MacKinnon | |
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Born | [1] | September 9, 1939
Nationality | American |
Education | Mount Hermon School [2] |
Alma mater |
Yale Harvard (MBA, 1962) [3] |
Occupation(s) | Management consultant and former General Motors executive |
Known for | Independent historian |
Spouse | Patricia |
Awards | 2008
Mormon History Association
Thomas L. Kane Award Utah State Historical Society Dale L. Morgan and LeRoy S. Axland awards [4] |
Website | Occasional guest author – Keepapitchinin.org |
William P. MacKinnon, an American independent historian. A management consultant, MacKinnon is a historian of the American West, Mormon history, and Utah history [5] who was described by Richard E. Turley in 2018 as "the acknowledged expert" [6] and by Thomas G. Alexander in 2019 as "the most knowledgable authority" [7] on what was known in its time as the American War of the Mormons' Succession (or more recently "the Utah War"), a topic of which MacKinnon began his study as a Yale sophomore history major in 1958. [8] In 2018, MacKinnon presented the 35th Juanita Brooks Lecture at Dixie State University: "Across the Desert in 1858: Thomas L. Kane’s Mediating Mission and the Mormon Women who Made it Possible." [9] As of 2010 [update], MacKinnon lived in Santa Barbara with his wife, Patricia. [10]
MacKinnon has published over thirty journal articles on the history of the American West. In 2010, he contributed an article to Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia.