As the Joseph Smith Papers nears completion, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ and historians talk about the purpose of the project and why it matters.
Elder Quentin L. Cook invited missionaries to study “The Morning Breaks,” with lyrics penned by Elder Parley P. Pratt, and consider the urgency early missionaries felt.
Joseph Crossley wrote about his family’s journey across the Atlantic in a small journal. More than 165 years later, his pioneer diary has been found and donated to the Church History Library.
On March 17, 1842, 181 years ago, 20 women met in the Red Brick Store in Nauvoo to organize the Relief Society. See how their work is “of ordinary women doing extraordinary things.”
The Church History Department has released “Kirtland, City of Revelation: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast” an eight-part, documentary-style miniseries hosted by Spencer McBride.
The Church Historian’s Press recently published the 1883 journal Belle Harris kept while she was in prison and Church history specialist Ken Adkins shares about her story of faith.
See a video of the pioneer exodus commemoration in Historic Nauvoo, Illinois. Many made the mile-long walk to the Mississippi River and remembered the pioneers’ commitment to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Church History Department celebrated the publication of several landmark projects that spotlight Latter-day Saint women’s experiences during the “Symposium on Women, Religion and Records.”
From the Tabernacle in downtown Salt Lake City to the White House in Washington, D.C., The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square has performed for U.S. presidents in a variety of settings spanning more than a century.
President Spencer W. Kimball was one of the great advocates and examples of keeping a personal journal. Here’s how you can read the Church leader’s journals.
“They could go forward with faith in Jesus Christ and confidence in His miraculous blessings,” Illinois Historic Sites President Craig Lee Dalton told participants in the exodus commemoration.
Matt Heiss of the Church History Department tells about recording Church history over his career, how it has changed and shares meaningful experiences.
See the Benbows’ home and pond in England, where John Taylor lived in Toronto, Canada, sites in Tonga and the peak Orson Pratt climbed in Scotland, plus 5 more sites and a bonus one connected to the King James Bible.
Historical records, archaeological discoveries and the natural geography of the region can greatly increase understanding of the first Christmas, wrote BYU professor Matthew J. Grey.
Just as a group of missionaries did nearly 100 years ago, more than 50 Latter-day Saint missionaries planted thousands of tree seeds on the Hill Cumorah in the final step of a reforestation project.
