Today In Mormon History

The LDS Church announces that the Church College of New Zealand will not admit more students and eventually close. [Wikipedia, 21st Century ...

[Willard Richards] council together'O. Hyde nominated E.T. Benson to take the crown of John E. Page, & council wrote him accordingly...

A public meeting is held in Liberty, Clay County, Missouri, in which the local citizens decide that to avoid a civil war the Saints must lea...

A First Presidency statement against compulsory military service ("conscription" or "the draft") during peace time. This...

[Hosea Stout] I awoke very early this morning and immediately discovered my child to be dying. He seemed perfectly easy and now had given up...

Assistant President of the Church John C. Bennett writes to Bodley Lodge No. 1, Quincy, Illinois, asking that it recommend that a Masonic lo...

Musa Bey Alami in company with the daughter of Jordanian ambassador to the United States expresses gratitude to President David O. McKay and...

[Heber J. Grant] "It is truly refreshing to find men with the courage to stand out for what is right instead of allowing politics to wa...

Pres. L. Snow remarked that 57 years ago today Joseph Smith, the prophet, was martyred for the truth and suggested that "A Poor Wayfari...

Brigham Young's office journal records: "Br. [Samuel] Murphy called upon the President and mentioned to him that his eyes were bad ...

[Willard Richards] Conversed about Mitchell’s writing to Fort Kearney for troops to take the Mormon leaders and drive off the leaders, as re...

[Wilford Woodruff] The Camp was flung into some excitement this morning by the appearance of capt J. Allen with 3 draggoons of the U S Armey...

At Koosharem, Utah, Apostle Owen Woodruff writes: "We then held a council of the Indians [-] they chose Mocha Nogitz for their Chief. I...

[John Henry Smith] [Apostle] Moses Thatcher's condition was talked over. I held he was not responsible from his use of narcotics. Prest....

Brigham recorded his dream in which he, his legal wife, and the Prophet were traveling in a covered carriage: "Br Joseph Smith sat on ...

The Russian Republic in the Soviet Union announces its formal recognition of the Church after the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's concert in M...

[Wilford Woodruff] We find a great Difficulty in writing the History of Joseph esspecially During the last few days of his life as no one ke...

An editorial in The Vermont Chronicler discussing Mormon revelation noted: "Our readers will recollect a similar delusion which raged s...

[Leonard Arrington] A little more information on the Lavina [Fielding Anderson] firing episode. After the appearance of the "leak"...

Missionary work recommences in Chile, some 104 years after Elder Parley P. Pratt had left the country following an unsuccessful attempt to e...