Campbell was born and raised in Tooele, Utah, in a working-class Latter-day Saint family, Edward Campbell and Betsy Ann Bowen. When Campbell was fourteen, his father, who was a railroad engineer, died suddenly. His mother was active in the community and her elected position as county treasurer helped the family survive the Great Depression.[1]
After completing his education, Campbell taught at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho, until joining the history faculty of BYU from 1956 to 1980. At BYU, Campbell worked in various capacities and held many positions, including the history department's acting chair (1958–59) and chair (1960–67), chair of Visiting Professor Lectureships (1965), tour leader for BYU Tours of Europe, associate director for a study abroad program (1965), board member of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies (1972–80), member of the Athletic Advisory Council, member of the Graduate Council, member of the Faculty Advisor Council, president of the BYU chapter of AAUP (1965–66), member of the board of editors for BYU Studies (1968–73), and main speaker at the 1973 and 1980 graduations of the College of Social Sciences. He also taught history at the Church College of Hawaii, while on leave from BYU in 1967–68.[1]
Roylance, Ward J.; Eugene E. Campbell (1982). Utah, A Guide to the State (Revised and enlarged ed.). Salt Lake City: Utah, A Guide to the State Foundation. OCLC 8638908.
Campbell, Eugene E. (1988). Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847–69. Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books. ISBN 0-941214-62-1.
——— (1992). "Foreword". The Essential Brigham Young. Classics in Mormon Thought. Vol. 3. Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books. ISBN 1-56085-010-8.
Articlesedit
Campbell, Eugene E. (Spring 1959). "The Apostasy of Samuel Brannan". Utah Historical Quarterly. 27 (2): 157–67. doi:10.2307/45058142. JSTOR 45058142. S2CID 254430102. Archived from the original on 2011-06-14.
——— (Winter 1960). "The Mormon Gold-Mining Mission of 1849". BYU Studies. 2 (1): 19–31.
——— (Winter 1968). "Authority Conflicts in the Mormon Battalion". BYU Studies. 8 (2): 127–42.
——— (Spring 1971). "The Mormons and the Donner Party". BYU Studies. 11 (3): 307–11.
——— (1973). "Brigham Young's Outer Cordon: A Reappraisal". Utah Historical Quarterly. 41: 220–53. doi:10.2307/45059369. JSTOR 45059369. S2CID 254430755. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
———; Campbell, Bruce L. (Winter 1978). "Divorce Among Mormon Polygamists: Extent and Explanations". Utah Historical Quarterly. 46 (1): 4–23. doi:10.2307/45060568. JSTOR 45060568. S2CID 254441498. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
——— (Summer 1983). "The M-Factors in Tooele's History". Utah Historical Quarterly. 51 (3): 272–88. doi:10.2307/45061005. JSTOR 45061005. S2CID 254450276. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
——— (Summer 1992). "I Wanted to Be a Chaplain: A Reminiscence of World War II". Utah Historical Quarterly. 60 (3): 277–84. doi:10.2307/45062055. JSTOR 45062055. S2CID 254438005. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
Papersedit
Campbell, Eugene E. (1940). "The Government of Utah, 1847–1851". [masters thesis]. Salt Lake City: Department of History, University of Utah. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
——— (1952). "A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in California, 1846-1946". [doctoral thesis]. Los Angeles: University of Southern California. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
——— (1960). "This Was the Place". BYU Speeches of the Year, 1959–1960. [Delivered to student body, July 23, 1959]. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University.
——— (1960). "The Physical and Political Setting of the New Testament". New Testament Conference. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University. pp. 34–42. ISBN 91-22-00929-9.
——— (August 19–20, 1977). "The Early Utah Period (1847-69)". Church Educational System Religious Educators' Symposium. pp. 42–44.
Book reviewsedit
Eugene Campbell reviewed numerous books for various academic journals.
"The First 100 Years: A History of the Salt Lake Tribune, 1871–1971". BYU Studies. 12 (1): 142–44. Autumn 1971.
"In Pursuit of the Golden Dream: Reminiscences of San Francisco and the Northern and Southern Mines". Utah Historical Quarterly. 40 (1): 90–91. Winter 1972. doi:10.2307/45059242. JSTOR 45059242. S2CID 254432889. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
"Twelve Mormon Homes Visited in Succession on a Journey Through Utah to Arizona". BYU Studies. 15 (4): 543–45. Summer 1975.
"Charles C. Rich [and] David Eccles by Leonard Arrington". Western Historical Quarterly. 7 (2): 200–02. April 1976. doi:10.2307/967521. JSTOR 967521.
"A Biography of Ezra Thompson Clark". Utah Historical Quarterly. 44 (3): 303–04. Summer 1976. doi:10.2307/45059697. JSTOR 45059697. S2CID 254431938. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
"Spencer W. Kimball" (PDF). Sunstone. 3 (5): 29–30. July–August 1978.
"The Genteel Gentile: Letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857–1858". BYU Studies. 19 (1): 127–28. Fall 1978.
Campbell, Eugene E; Brooks, Juanita; Haywood, Martha Spence (April 1979). "Not By Bread Alone: The Journal of Martha Spence Haywood, 1850–56". Western Historical Quarterly. 10 (2): 239–40. doi:10.2307/968043. JSTOR 968043.
"Deseret's Sons of Toil". Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. 23: 127–28. Summer 1980.
"Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer". Utah Historical Quarterly. 50 (1): 91–92. Winter 1982. doi:10.2307/45061358. JSTOR 45061358. S2CID 254429000. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
"The Saints and the Union, Utah Territory During the Civil War". BYU Studies. 22 (4): 500–01. Fall 1982.
"Mormon Thunder". Western Humanities Review. 37 (4): 354–56. Winter 1983.
"Saints, Slaves, and Blacks". Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. 27 (1): 54–55. Spring 1984.
"Not Quite What Was Promised, But Much More". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. 18 (1): 162–63. Spring 1985. Archived from the original on 2011-06-14. Retrieved 2019-08-12.
Campbell, Eugene E.; Richard T. Maher (July 17, 1973). "Eugene Campbell Oral History Interview" (Transcript and audio tapes). LDS Military Chaplains Oral History Project. Provo, Utah: L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Bennett, Clea R. (April 5, 1980). "My Most Influential Teacher". Church News. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News. p. 2.
Gowans, Fred R. (Summer 1986). "In Memoriam: Eugene E. Campbell, 1915–86". Utah Historical Quarterly. 54 (3): 286–87. doi:10.2307/45061605. JSTOR 45061605. S2CID 254437350. Archived from the original on 2011-08-08. Retrieved 2019-08-12.