Today In Mormon History

Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho, was officially renamed Brigham Young University-Idaho and became a four-year university. [Church News: H...

[Brigham Young] I propose that each Ward form female relief societies and not buy so much gew gaws ribbons bonnets shawls and shoes and t...

[Brigham Young] ... when we can he united in all things so that each will seek the interest and welfare of his brother, then the Lord wil...

Salt Lake Tribune article, "Of LDS Women, 58% Admit Premarital Sex." [Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Po...

In August 1966, Hugh B. Brown told two BYU professors that Benson had "a letter from President McKay endorsing his candidacy." Bro...

Ernest Wilkinson observed that "President McKay for the moment is displeased with some things that Brother Benson has done." [W...

The leader of the National Reform Association tells the annual meeting of Christian Citizenship Institute that the LDS church president Hebe...

[Joseph Fielding Smith] [Attended] Tabernacle in the afternoon. Dr. J[ames]. E. T[almage]. spoke not edifying but questionable. [Josep...

Talmage delivers the address "The Earth and Man" in the Tabernacle. Under a later journal entry dated November 21, 1931, Talmage r...

Apostle James E. Talmage gives a talk in the Tabernacle on "The Earth and Man.: He says that plants and animals "lived and died, a...

[John Henry Smith] "We received information to day that a Conspiricy existed to take pictures of the inside of the Temple." ...

Letter read from Pres[iden]t. E[dward]. J. Wood, stating in effect that a few elderly Seventies belonging to the Seventies' quorum at Ca...

President Young said I knew while in England by Revelation that as we now are God wenoe wenee has been and as he is we shall be if faithful....

[Council of Fifty] Council met-L[arge] room. Heard "report" [of Uriah Brown's liquid] fire works [weapon]. [Historian...

Brigham Young tells a general meeting that certain apostles are wrong in saying that marriage sealings will occur "in the wilderness....

To rescue the church's Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, Heber J. Grant agrees to mortgage Social Hall, Vermont, and the Deseret News buildings....

Pres. Jos. F. Smith reported his attendance at the Summit Stake Conference. Enjoyed the spirit of the conference. While there, saw and talke...

[Brigham Young Jr.] Had some strange experiences today. After meeting in the Temple, Pres. Snow held reception for Ken. news men at Beehi...

Joseph Smith, father of the Prophet, came from Merrimac River, N.H., and first settled in Palmyra, but in 1819 removed to this place. He was...

[Helen Mar Kimball] A few days after their return to Nauvoo the Prophet's brother Don Carlos Smith died, and being an officer in the ...