Today in Mormon History

Shortly after the presidency's statement against the ultra- conservative NET organizations, all local LDS leaders received an announceme...

"Benson linked the civil rights movement to Communists and made vague insinuations about "trators in the church." Last m...

Heber J. Grant warns general priesthood meeting against Ku Klux Klan, and remarks: "It is beyond my comprehension how people holding th...

Heber J. Grant warns the general priesthood meeting against the Ku Klux Klan, and remarks: "It is beyond my comprehension how people ho...

Howard W. Hunter is baptized in a swimming pool in Boise, Idaho (he is twelve years and five months old.)

Today at the afternoon meeting the general authorities were sustained. One person voted against Pres[ident]. Jos[eph]. F. Smith and one agai...

[Council] Bro[ther] John W. Taylor spoke upon the right of the Presidency to direct in all things religious, political and temporal. He prop...

[Apostle Brigham Young Jr.] [On 1 April, Brigham Young had a discussion with B. H. Roberts in which Young defended suffrage for women, argu...

[Brigham Young Jr.] Gardo House ... Meeting on estate business. Presidency cannot consent to have our people promise to obey the 'law,...

We met in the Prayer Circle. A Certain Revelation was discused given to Wilford Woodruff in the Wilderness of Arizona Jan 26 1880 And it was...

... On motion it was unanimously voted that our organization be called the United Order of Salt Lake City, Number One. On Motion it was vote...

George Albert Smith was born in Salt Lake City to Susan Farr and John Henry Smith. He was a great- grandnephew of Joseph Smith, Sr., and a g...

[Minutes of the Apostles] [Orson Pratt] There are certain points taught by Bro. Y. as being true, that there does seem to be disputed betwe...

The sermon [of Orson Pratt] is splendid but [there is] no confession of his errors, but a confession to me. As though a confession was to be...

Sarah Pratt writes to Bathsheba W. Smith about her husband, Apostle Orson Pratt's absence on missions and time with other wives: "M...

Three bishops instruct the high priests of Nauvoo-s 5th Ward that if some members did not reform "they would at once discover themselve...

[Heber J. Grant] Francis M. Lyman, regretted that every word that Brother Brigham had said could not have been taken down and recorded. Sta...

Apostle F. M. Lyman made brief remarks. Said that as the body cannot live without the spirit, so the church cannot live without or exist wit...

I made a few remarks on proper method of disposing of journals should be willed to Historians office, also concerning our writing so much of...

First Presidency and Apostles discuss B. H. Roberts's opposition to equal suffrage at recent State Constitutional convention. "Brot...