Today In Mormon History

The unsigned "Divine Institution of Marriage" document released via LDS Church newsroom. ... The document suggests that domestic p...

A note preceding the article [in Meridian Magazine about Proposition-8] advises that the Family Leader Network is still looking for "pe...

BOISE IDAHO STATESMAN article: "BYU Clarifies Dress Code to Allow Women to Wear 'Female-Cut' jeans."

Setting of the draft age at eighteen years of age for young men for military service brought about certain considerations on the age at whic...

Brother John Henry Smith said that on Sunday, in company with President [Jospeh F.] Smith, the Patriarch and others, he attended the ceremon...

[John Nuttle] Prest Taylor & party drove to the [Salt Lake] Temple and examined the whole building gave directions (sic) the Presidency...

[William Clayton] He [Joseph Smith] then showed that Sidney Rigdon had bound himself by an oath to Governor Carlin to deliver J[oseph] into...

Joseph Smith accuses First Presidency member Sidney Rigdon of conspiring with John C. Bennett and other anti-Mormons, and a Church conferenc...

Committee of Carroll citizens orders the Saints to leave the county. [Source: LeSueur, Stephen C., The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri, Appen...

Forenoon was occupied in committee meeting of the Twelve called by President [Francis M.] Lyman, particularly to consult with the Presidency...

[Marriner W. Merrill] Attended meeting in President Woodruff's office at 1 p. m. with the Presidents of Stakes when President Woodruff ...

[Francis M. Lyman] At 1 P.M. met with the Presidency and Twelve and Presidency of Stakes as follows [32 names] The financial embarrassment ...

Polygamy was announced in the Nauvoo High Council, read by Hyrum Smith. No wording exists. Hyrum stated in June 8, 1844: "[The rev...

Lucy Walker Smith Kimball recalls Joseph Smith saying about her ailing sister, ["]I am under the greatest obligations to look to her we...

[Leonard Arrington] Haybron Adams took me to his office and sa[i]d, "I would like to show you a letter which somehow came into my hand...

THE BIRTH OF THE DESERET INDUSTRIES AS A UNIT OF THE CHURCH WELFARE PROGRAM ... In a further effort to provide opportunities for indivi...

[Wilford Woodruff to William Evans] [I see] that your father died without having heard the gospel, and that your mother, in 1872, was seale...

Due to the financial crisis, the Church Board of Education temporarily ceases financial support of the Church schools, and as a result appro...

According to [Edmund C.] Briggs Young blamed Emma for the establishment of the Reorganized Church and said so in graphic terms. "Em...

[William Clayton] A.M. To the Temple office. P.M. President Joseph came to my house and I went home with him and took dinner with him. In ...