Deseret News archives: When Brigham Young Academy became a university

The school’s origins began in 1875, formed as Brigham Young Academy. According to historical accounts, the instructors first ...
J.J. McCullough on MSN

This Is How Mormon Prophets Have Guided the Church for Nearly 200 Years

After Joseph Smith’s death in 1844, the young Mormon Church faced chaos, betrayal, and the question of who would lead next. This documentary explores how Brigham Young and later prophets rebuilt the ...
JSTOR Daily

[A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith]

BYU Studies is an academic publisher housed at Brigham Young University. The primary publication is a quarterly journal that has been published continuously since 1959. Secondary publications include ...
Religion News Service

Mormons know how the Church sanctioned racial exclusion. That policy has a paper trail.

(RNS) — Paul Reeve's new book argues the decision to ban Blacks from priesthood and the temple began with Brigham Young but wasn't fully entrenched until the early 1900s under Joseph F. Smith. (RNS) — ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

LDS Church releases final volume of founding prophet’s letters on anniversary of his death

After 22 years of documenting, filing, writing and editing, the historians and researchers behind The Joseph Smith Papers published the final volume of their groundbreaking project Tuesday on the ...