Today In Mormon History

Conservative members of the Utah legislature in 1986 refused to allow the state to call this national holiday by Martin Luther King's na...

At seven-thirty in meeting with the missionary committee. Because of the opposition raised by enemies and due to conditions which we cannot ...

Apostle Heber J. Grant writes in his diary: "attended a meeting of the apostles in the Temple. . . . The object of the meeting of the a...

Bro[ther] Snow in a very kind manner explained the object of above meeting. said that Elder Roberts had made statements in public gatherings...

Federal Justice James B. McKean writes to President Ulysses S. Grant: "For near twenty years the Mormon leaders packed the Grand and Pe...

... Among the Number was Isaac Laney who bore a strong testimony of the work of the Lord. He spoke of his being Shot at Hawns Mill with some...

[Leonard Arrington] Final examination of Ronald Esplin for the Ph.D. in History at BYU. [[Esplin's dissertation was "The Emergen...

BYU professor Ralph V. Chamberlin's "Darwin Centennial Speech" ignites controversy. General authorities (as the school's t...

The SALT LAKE TRIBUNE expose of the endowment ceremony: "Mysteries of the Endowment House". It is later published and distributed ...

The policy of the Church from the beginning has been, and now is, opposed to waltzing, so far as it has had power to do so. That particular ...

Second Counselor Daniel H. Wells: Elected mayor of Salt Lake City, serving ten turbulent years of increasing anti-Mormon hostility. [Van ...

The Seventies, now numbering 40 quorums, commenced a jubilee in G.S.L. City, which lasted five days. Their hall, which had undergone a thoro...

The provisional state of Deseret authorizes and requests President Brigham Young, as governor of the territory, to procure a block of marble...

[Wilford Woodruff] {Omens} In the fall of 1840 the great chandelier in the representatives Hall in washington weighing about 6,000 lbs, f...

In an official editorial against allowing Utah's high schools to have clubs for gay and lesbian students, the Deseret News comments: ...

Ezra Taft Benson spoke about the right-wing John Birch Society to a standing-room-only crowd at the Assembly Hall on Salt Lake Temple Square...

While touring the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii, Elder David O. McKay is impressed by the Spirit to move those with him away from a ledge overlo...

[Heber J. Grant] Attended the meeting of the Twelve ... and after discussing the status of Bros Peterson and Bro Chamberlin we were unani...

The New York Times gives its first theater review of actress Hazel Dawn. With her debut on the London stage in 1910, she is the first nation...

[Rudger Clawson] ... Before going to meeting Bp. Thomas [of Idaho Falls] informed [me] that a peculiar and somewhat serious condition pre...