Today In Mormon History

Speaking at the regional priesthood leadership conference in Winder Stake on 10 August 1985, Elder Packer says: "We are in a time when ...

A reporter from the Chicago Daily News asked Eisenhower on August 10, 1960: "Do you regret having kept Ezra Taft Benson on as Secretary...

Elders Heber C. Miller and Joseph H. Walton, jun., who were laboring as missionaries in Tennessee, were brutally assaulted while engaged in ...

[William Clayton] ....a letter was read from Pittsburgh from Amos Fielding dated ... that Sidney Rigdon has had a revelation requiring h...

[Brigham Young to William Smith] .... with regard to "Cowdery's commentations" on your "Rebellious heart," the c...

Seymour Brunson: Died 10 August 1840 in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. At funeral Joseph Smith first publicly announced doctrine of bapti...

Minutes of "The High Council of Kirtland" note that they assembled "to hear complaint of President Joseph Smith, Jun., agains...

[Rudger Clawson] ....A letter from Pres. J. F. Smith was read. Said that they (namely, Elders S. B. Young, presidency of the Juarez Stake...

A letter from President Joseph F. Smith was read. It was dated Juarez [Mexico] 2nd, and conveyed the information that it had been decided to...

The United States Attorney in Illinois files a complaint to recover a debt Joseph Smith owed from the 1840 purchase of the steamship NAUVOO....

[Heber J. Grant] I approved a long letter prepared by President Clark to a sister who wants to live according to the law of Moses ... ...

The first of two plural marriages in Mexico that second counselor Joseph F. Smith secretly authorizes without the knowledge of President Lor...

First Presidency met with us at 11 a. m. After Circle prayers we partook of the sacrament of bread and wine. ... It was decided by the First...

Much talk over letter from Mr. Blackwell of Boston of Aug 6 to sister Zina D Young writing strongly against the women of voting on the Const...

[Brigham Young] .... In the evening went to Wm [William] Smith [age 34] and sealed [him] to Miss Rice [age 14] -- [Brigham Young Journ...

Joseph answers John C. Bennett's letters, stating, "My general invitation is, Let all that will, come, and partake of the poverty o...

[Joseph Fielding Smith] The papers reported the dropping of an 'atom' bomb on Hiroshima, Japan which was more powerful than 200,0...

[President Heber J. Grant] I did not go to sleep last night until after midnight. I was thinking of the political situation, and Franklin...

[Joseph Anderson] President Grant, to whom your letter of August 6 is addressed, is in the East at the present time. I suggest that i...

[James E. Talmage] Practically every spare moment of my time since my return from San Francisco has been given up to the revision of copy...