Subject Guides: REL 343 Church History from 1900-Present: Additional Resources

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Background on a Church Doctrine, Event, or Region

Use these additional background sources to learn more about a Church doctrine, event, historical figure, or region.

Saints: A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Online page for the four-volume series on the history of the Church. Includes topics, biographies, and places, and events.
Encyclopedia of Mormonism Online The Wiki Version of Macmillan’s 1992 Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Use this for backgound information and bibliographies on topics, events, and people in Mormonism. Contains additions and updates by BYU Studies.
Global Church Facts and Statistics Regularly updated membership statistics in various countries.
BYU Library Books: Mormon Almanacs A list of books at BYU with statistical information about the LDS Church and its membership.
Church History Topics Official discussions on a variety of key people, doctrines, events, and locations in Church history.

Find Speeches by a Church Leader about a Doctrine

Use this additional database to find a sermon about a scripture in Latter-day Saint sacred texts.

Scripture Citation Index This index links from scriptures to the general conference talks that cite those scriptures in LDS General Conference between 1942 and the present. You can sort the citation index by scripture (the default), by speaker, or by date of citation.

Find Archival Materials by or about a Church Historical Figure

Use these links to search journals, photographs, and correspondence by or about an important figure in Church history. You can also search by an event or geographic location.

BYU Special Collections Finding Aids Search the finding aids of several thousand collections in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at BYU.
Church History Library Archives This searches the LDS Church History Library archival collections of diaries, correspondence, photographs, and other personal papers.
Foundations of the Restoration Sources A list of materials in the BYU library archives related to the various units of REL 225, Foundations of the Restoration. Search by an individuals name (e.g., "Emma"), by an event (e.g., "First Vision"), or by a location (e.g., "Kirtland").
Mormon Missionary Diaries Missionary diaries from the 1830s to the 1960s located in BYU’s L. Tom Perry Special Collections made available online.

REL 343 Church History from 1900-Present: Additional Resources

Philosophy and Church History/Doctrine Librarian

Background on a Church Doctrine, Event, or Region

Find Speeches by a Church Leader about a Doctrine

Find Archival Materials by or about a Church Historical Figure

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