Today In Mormon History

John Sorenson's reconciliation of Book of Mormon archaeology and Mesoamerican cultural geography, "An Ancient American Setting for ...

John T. Alexander, of Salt Lake City, who labored as a missionary in Georgia, was shot and severely wounded by three masked men, near Plainv...

[Hosea Stout Diary] Tuesday 31 May 1853. This mornings No of the "Hongkong register" has a long article showing the necessity of h...

[Nauvoo Neighbor] - Story: "The Mormon Girl's Foreboding - Scene at Hawn's Mill Conclusion" -- Lytton -- Describes the hor...

President George W. Bush met with the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints this week at the Churchs headquart...

[African Americans in Utah] When the noted black educator Booker T. Washington visited Salt Lake City in 1913 he gave a special lecture at C...

Two Salt Lake City baseball teams, the Deserets and the Red Stockings, meet in the first game of the season; the Red Stockings with a new se...

Salt Lake City-s mayor, by placing one call to local LDS leader, has 2,000 volunteers within hour to create artificial sandbag levees to pre...

... With the thought in mind of reducing the time spent by bishops, branch presidents and mission presidents in preparing recommends for mem...

...Bro[ther]. Bro[ther]. McKay said that Dr. Winship told him that the Latter-day Saints Sunday schools were ahead of the Sunday Schools in...

[William Clayton Journal] This A.M. President Joseph told me that he felt as though I was not treating him exactly right and asked if I had ...

[Anointed Quorum] 9 a.m. prayer circle of same men at Smith's old home, "when Joseph instructed us further in principles pertaining...

Brother Horne and I chatted again tonight about the Gospel and the Adam-God Doctrine, as we have done many times before. Brother Horne, who ...

Patriarch Joseph Young, senior Seventy's president and member of Joseph Smith's Annointed Quorum, blesses Brigham Young's daught...

[Joseph Smith Diary] Sunday, May 28th Clouds and rain. Cold. 5 P.M. Adjourned council met in the upper room. Attended to ordinances and coun...

Sunday prayer circle "in the upper room" of Smith's old home ... and the participants "attended to ordinances" . Be...

Joseph and Emma Smith sealed for time and eternity. [Source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Chronology of Church History, h...

Joseph Smith tells a council meeting, "The patriarchal office is the highest in the church, and father Smith conferred this office, on ...

[Apostle Franklin D. Richards Diary] ... together with several young children in them. It evidently fears approaching statehood for Utah and...

(Susa Young Gates) : Died of cancer at the age of seventy-seven in Salt Lake City. Buried in the Provo, Utah, Cemetery. [Source: Van Wago...