Today In Mormon History

Louis C. Midgley of BYU's political science department attacks the New Mormon History and historians for a lack of faith. Joined periodi...

The Home Fire Insurance Company was incorporated in Salt Lake City, with Heber J. Grant as president. [Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]

Joseph draws up a bill of expenses caused by his trial in Monmouth in June 1841 and sends it to the deputy sheriff of Adams County because h...

Talmage's address [i.e., 'The Earth and Man'] twice and with care. The subjects therein treated, delicately yet forcefully, are ...

President [Lorenzo] Snow said that whatever this Council unitedly agreed upon he would do, if it was to ask the Presidency. He thinks we are...

A First Presidency letter advises Mormons throughout the U.S. to obtain immunization against the swine flu. [The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensio...

[Marriner W. Merrill] I had one hour's interview with the First Presidency on the subject of Temple affairs and Edlefsen's complaint...

[John Henry Smith] Mesa There is some drunken tramp here who claims he has papers for my arest. [Jean Bickmore White (editor), Church, S...

Elder Neal A. Maxwell, speaking at the FARMS annual banquet, tells his listeners, "Joseph [Smith] will go on being vindicated in the es...

President Spencer W. Kimball dedicates the first buildings of the new Language Training Mission (LTM), later known as the Missionary Trainin...

[David O. McKay] After considering all the facts presented regarding the desire of a couple who have been sealed in the Temple to have seale...

The Church published new editions of the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price. The Doctrine and Covenants added ...

First Presidency letter in favor of right to work without joining labor union.

Heber J. Grant expresses his disappointment about his racehorse being disqualified from the upcoming race in Salt Lake City: "I had cou...

[Franklin D. Richards] Heard sisters Zina [Diantha Huntington Smith Young] Jane [S. Richards] & Bathsheba [W. Smith] interview Pres[iden...

[Wilford Woodruff] 25 A vary rough morning. All sea sick. We stoped at Manitou Island. Cooked dinner on land & lay by the wharf untill s...

[Nauvoo Temple] About two hundred individuals gathered as Joseph Smith supervised the placement of items in a cavity in the southeast corner...

[Brigham Young Jr.] Pres[iden]t Woodruff said before I left, "we must do something to save our Temples." Some one may ask Can'...

Presidt Young spoke 58 Minuts. He said a Man may Embrace the Law of Celestial Marriage in his heart & not take the Second wife & be ...

Due to report that Stephen A. Douglas has called Utah's Mormons "an ulcer on the body politic," Deseret News publishes Joseph ...