Suppression of documents as a way of doing objective history?

Critics’ responses to my post regarding Prof. Anthony Sweat’s recent lecture have, on the whole, been entirely consistent with Richard Bushman’s astute observation:

“Secular historians are . . . more inclined than Mormons to suppress source material from Joseph’s closest associates.”

And Professor Bushman was writing about historians.  The typical critic is far less balanced . . .

I remembered the statement, but I appreciate Stephen Smoot’s reminding me of the source.

(Incidentally, too, for background information regarding the David Whitmer image above, see here.)

Posted from Park City, Utah