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From New Year’s Eve to Christmas Day, there is always a good reason to celebrate! Whether you’re highlighting a favorite holiday of the month, hosting a party, planning a summer picnic outing, or simply wanting to create a few family memories, Celebrate Every Season with Six Sisters’ Stuff is...

As part of the Smith Institute’s women’s initiative, eight advanced students were invited to BYU in summer 2003 to research women’s history in the twentieth century. The eight papers in this volume are the fruits of their labors. The papers show the actions and reactions of faithful women affected...

The talks collected in this volume are drawn from John S. Tanner's later years at Brigham Young University, prior to his appointment as president of BYUHawaii. They contain a record of how, as an administrator, he tried to keep the dream of BYU alive. More broadly, they speak to a vision of learning...

A compilation of speeches given by Robert K. Thomas, focused on the importance of secular and gospel education.

The sixth volume of the Documents series, published in 2017, contains personal letters, revelations, discourses, minutes, legal documents, and financial documents, among other documents. The documents in the volume trace the establishment of Far West, Missouri, as the center place of Zion; the spread...

When twenty-three-year-old John S. Davis received baptism into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 19 April 1846, he was employed as a typesetter by the Reverend John Jones in the village of Rhydybont, Carmarthenshire. Five months earlier, the reverend's younger brother Dan began using...

The fifty-three issues of Udgorn Seion (Zion's Trumpet) published during 1853 served to keep Latter-day Saints all over Wales abreast of the latest direction and information from their leaders in Merthyr Tydfil and the newly announced practice of polygamy in the Church. They could read translated minutes...

In the first issue of Zion's Trumpet in 1855, Dan Jones declares that he was beginning the year "with greater desire and confidence" than ever before. Despite expressions of frustration and disappointment throughout the 1855 volume, there are many segments in which Dan Jones's unflagging optimism...

Throughout the course of history, civilization has been blessed by strong-minded men and women who have impacted our world in extraordinary ways. Their imprint upon humanity is beyond dispute. And many would contend that they were no less than the result of Divine Providence—a gift of God to the...

Over the centuries, the story of Christopher Columbus has become so enshrouded in myth that his life has remained largely a mystery to all but a handful of scholars. Yet the prophet Nephi suggests that Columbus stands out among historical figures as "a man among the Gentiles." In fact, Lehi and Nephi...

During the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, FARMS and BYU hosted an exhibit of scrolls and scroll replicas, including some scrolls that had never been seen in the United States.Ancient Scrolls from the Dead Sea provides photographs of each of the nine original Dead...

Against the Wall is the fascinating and inspiring story of Johann Huber, one of Austria's earliest LDS converts. Huber had already been a controversial political figure in the farming community of Rottenbach, Austria, but he went from the frying pan into the fire when he informed his neighbors of...

On a mission to bomb a French bridge and slow down Hitler's retreating army, U.S. bomber pilot Wendell B. Terry miraculously survived a harrowing parachute jump after his plan was hit by enemy fire. Scorched by the burning plane, he landed amid German SS troops and soon found himself in a German prisoner-of-war...

This year's BYU Women's Conference theme comes from the Psalmist: "For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly" (Psalm 84:11). This comprehensive promise gives us great hope; hope that the Lord will not just light...