![]() (Photos courtesy of Steve Griffin, Salt Lake Tribune. ![]() Together with Carol Cornwall Madsen they edited The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in LDS Women’s History. ![]() Grow is director of publications at the Church History Department. Kate Holbrook is a specialist in women’s history at the Church History Department. Introductory matter and other material from the book is currently available at .Ībout the Guests Jill Mulvay Derr is a retired senior research historian for the Church History Department. We’re talking about The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History. We also discuss the kind of impact the editors hope the book can have on how Mormons understand their history. You’ll hear about issues like polygamy and women’s suffrage. In this episode we pick up where we left off as the Latter-day Saints begin to reestablish relief society in the Utah territory. Today is the Relief Society’s 174th anniversary. Jill Mulvay Derr, Kate Holbrook, and Matt Grow talked about the origins of the Relief Society and why its activities were suspended in 1844. The story begins with the founding of the Nauvoo Female Relief Society in 1842, and the complete and unabridged minutes of that organization are reproduced for the first time in print. ![]() In the last episode we heard from three editors of a new book of Relief Society documents published by the LDS Church. This collection of original documents explores the fascinating and largely unknown history of the Relief Society in the nineteenth century. ![]()
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