Each of the Church’s 18 prophets has, at one time or another, remarked on the importance of gaining all kinds of knowledge.

Since 2016, the Church History Department have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to highlighting Latter-day Saint women’s history. Here are seven publications.

Watch as more than 200 Latter-day Saints and visitors walk the same road as the early Saints did in 1846 in Nauvoo, Illinois.

April 2026 general conference will include a solemn assembly to sustain a new Church president and First Presidency. What does a solemn assembly look like and why is it important?

The Church Historian's Press has published a book featuring 52 discourses of Eliza R. Snow, the Church's second Relief Society general president. Church leaders and volume editors spoke at a media event celebrating the publication.

President Brigham Young, who was a carpenter, glazier and painter, said to cancel everything on Valentine’s Day in 1853. He said he was going to break ground for the Salt Lake Temple, and if people wanted to talk to him, they could bring a pick or a shovel.

More than 200 youth, families and missionaries marked the 180th anniversary of the early Latter-day Saints' exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, during a milelong walk to the Mississippi River in frigid weather.

Joseph Smith Jr. was born on Dec. 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont.

The Church History Department added information about general Church leadership to the Church History Biographical Database.

Learn about three family members — a great-grandmother and two descendants — who each attended one of the three dedications at the Hill Cumorah Historic Site.