Richard L. Jensen

Richard L. Jensen, research historian, Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History, Brigham Young University.

Forgotten Relief Societies, 1844-67

Nineteenth-century Latter-day Saint women showed a remarkable propensity for organizing. To engage in benevolent service, to share useful information, to fill social and spiritual needs, they met together in the humid summers of Nauvoo, Illinois,…

Moving Swiftly Upon the Waters | Conway B. Sonne, Saints on the Seas: A Maritime History of Mormon Migration 1830-1890

Articles/Essays – Volume 17, No. 1

After the Latter-day Saints began building Zion in the Great Basin it was natural to celebrate crossing the plains as pioneers. Succeeding generations of land lubbers have been less inclined to remember a similarly pivotal…