Today In Mormon History

Prophet George Rapp of the Rappites or New Harmonists, predicts (14 miles south of Harmony, PA) that the three and one half years of the Sun...

WAYNE SENTINAL (Palmyra, N.Y.) reports "A reformation is going on in this town to a great extent. The love of God has been shed abroad ...

ACLU files brief with the Tenth Circuit Court. [The Main Street Plaza Time Line: http://www.mormonlawyers.com/2008/07/main-st-plaza-mormo...

The WASHINGTON POST devotes the entire top of a page to a photograph of the banner flown by the tow plane over the neighborhood where and LD...

During the school periods 1904-1905, and 1905-1906, I delivered a series of lectures entitled, "Jesus the Christ", under the auspi...

[Franklin D. Richards] At 11-30 met Apostle Moses Thatcher & deliberated, then we went to Pres[iden]ts. Office. I asked the 3 Pres[iden...

[Brigham Young Sermon] President Said He should Call up the Cases of those who had been Called to go to the Cotton Country & had not go...

[Brigham Young Sermon] ... it is a great mystery to the world that the LDS are so attached to each other and forsaking fathers, mothers, wi...

Joseph Smith, Sr., died Nauvoo, age 69. [Ludlow, Daniel H. editor, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Macmillan Publishing, Encyclopedia of Mormo...

[Brigham Young] I started from Montrose on my mission to England. My health was so poor I was unable to go thirty rods to the river without...

A Family Home Evening Committee, formed under the direction of the General Board of the Relief Society, reported to the First Presidency tha...

[Because of the war] The attendance at the Conference (115th Semiannual) because of increasing difficulty in transportation, both by automo...

[Heber J. Grant] At two attended meeting of the Presidency and Apostles in the Temple. .../I stated that I felt that the Presiding Patriarc...

Our Bishops and Presidents of Stakes cannot be too particular in giving [temple] recommends to parties, so that those who are unworthy may n...

[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph Jr. visits William Smith at Plymouth. His sister Lucy is healed at the sound of his voice downstairs. [Anderson...

Elder Gordon B. Hinckley offers an invocation at the U.S. Congress.

President [N. Eldon] Tanner said that President [O. Leslie] Stone of the Salt Lake Temple had called to his attention the large number of ma...

You have seen the scheme of [Idaho Senator Fred T.] Dubois. He wants to disfrancise all the Mormons, and hopes to buil[d] up an anti-mormon ...

Pres[iden]t [Lorenzo] Snow informed me he had not been able to obtain information why women were required to vail their faces when at prayer...

[Eliza R. Snow to brances of the Relief Society] ... "Should members of the Relief Society go to the Bishops for counsel?" Th...