MormonTimes.com: Teaching LDS history challenges college professors

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Teaching college students about the history of the LDS Church in Utah has its own set of challenges, whether instructors are Latter-day Saints or not, because most students believe they already know the subject and understand it well.

Kathleen Flake, a Vanderbilt University associate professor of American religious history, told members of the Mormon History Association on Friday that educators at universities in Utah and Idaho teaching about the church's history have to deal with "religious history, church history and religious education."

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