William P. MacKinnon, Date of Birth
TweetWilliam P. MacKinnon
American historian
Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1938
Profession: historian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About William P. MacKinnon
- William P.
- MacKinnon, an American independent historian.
- A management consultant, MacKinnon is a historian of the American West, Mormon history, and Utah history who was described by Richard E.
- Turley in 2018 as "the acknowledged expert" and by Thomas G.
- Alexander in 2019 as "the most knowledgable authority" 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.
- 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." As of 2010, MacKinnon lived in Santa Barbara with his wife, Patricia.
Read more at Wikipedia