Larry C. Porter
Larry C. Porter is Professor Emeritus of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University. Dr. Porter received a BS in history from Utah State University and an MA and PhD in the history of religion from Brigham Young University. After serving for eleven years as a Church Seminaries and Institutes instructor, principal, and district coordinator, he joined the faculty of religion at Brigham Young University in 1970. Professor Porter served as chair of the Department of Church History and Doctrine and as director of Church history in the Religious Studies Center. Dr. Porter has been a contributing writer in a variety of books and authored articles for the Ensign, New Era, Church News, and BYU Studies. He has traveled extensively in connection with his research and has lived for a year at the Martin Harris Farm in Palmyra.
BYU Studies Publications
- Doctrine and the Temple in Nauvoo
- Eyewitness Accounts of the Restoration
- Guest Editors' Introduction [27:1]
- Guest Editors’ Introduction [32:1–2]
- Historic Sites and Markers along the Mormon and Other Great Western Trails
- Martin Harris Comes to Utah, 1870
- Remembering Christmas Past: Presidents of the Church Celebrate the Birth of the Son of Man and Remember His Servant Joseph Smith
- Reverend George Lane—Good "Gifts," Much "Grace," and Marked "Usefulness"
- Solomon Chamberlain—Early Missionary
- Solomon Chamberlin’s Missing Pamphlet: Dreams, Visions, and Angelic Ministrants
- The Colesville Branch and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon
- They Are My Friends: A History of the Joseph Knight Family, 1825–1850
- William E. McLellan's Testimony of the Book of Mormon