Mormon History

Access digital collections:

• Hathi Trust Digital Library: Access to digitized Huntington Library publications.
• Mormonism and the West in the Huntington Digital Library: The Huntington Digital Library collection "Mormonism and the West" consists of images generated from reproductions of original letters, diaries, journals, reminiscences and other records lent to The Huntington during the 1940s and 1950s by descendants of pioneering Mormon families. Nearly all of the documents focus on the history of the Mormon faith during the 1830s and 1840s, as well as the 1847 flight of its followers from persecution to the Great Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah and the subsequent Mormon settlement of the inter-mountain West.
• Access recorded lectures related to Mormon history at The Huntington Library.

Search elsewhere:

• A Mormon Bibliography, 1830-1930: Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals and Broadsides Relating to the First Century of Mormonism. Available electronically through the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University.
• Mormon Studies Resources: The Harold B. Lee Library's resource guide for online material on Mormon theology, history, culture and people.
• Mormon Pioneering Journeys: A Selected Bibliographical Guide to the Nineteenth Century Experience. Compiled by Brigham Young University.
• Mormon History Guide: Includes bibliographies of printed materials. Compiled by the New York Public Library.
• A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints. Edited by Richard Cracroft and Neal Lambert. Available through Brigham Young University.
• The Joseph Smith Papers: The Joseph Smith Papers Project is an effort to gather together all extant Joseph Smith documents and to publish complete and accurate transcripts of those documents with both textual and contextual annotation.

Los Angeles Area Court Records
Using the Los Angeles Area Court Records (LAACR) at The Huntington.

Newspaper Collections
A guide to digital, rare and Los Angeles newspaper collections at The Huntington.