by Guest Author | Jan 31, 2018 | Early History
Saints: The Story of The Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days is being released in 2018. It is an innovative approach, written in narrative style, which has many different narratives woven into it. It starts from before Joseph Smith’s First Vision and goes to the...
by Ashley Morales | Jul 27, 2017 | Historical Stories, Modern History
This article originally appeared in Mormon Women for Ethical Government on July 17th, 2017. Listen to a new MWEG broadcast by independent historian Ardis Parshall on refugees in LDS church history, from Missouri to Turkey to Lithuania. This is an important part of...
by Guest Author | Nov 6, 2015 | Early History
This article originally appeared in the 4 November 2015 online edition of the Utah Valley 360. 1. When President Monson was born in Salt Lake City in 1927, some of the original Mormon pioneers were still living there. In fact, when Gary E. Stevenson — the youngest...
by Keith L. Brown | Jul 3, 2015 | Early History
As part of the 50th annual conference of the Mormon History Association which took place at the Utah Valley Convention Center, a new generation of historians collaborated to present a more appealing view of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to outsiders....