A conversation with the patriarch of Mormon historians, 94-year-old Richard Bushman, who discusses how the LDS Church has ...

As a wordsmith who labored over each paragraph, sentence and phrase, historian and writer Jan Shipps would be delighted to see her friends, colleagues and admirers mining their mental thesaurus for ...

The slaying in Mexico of nine people who belonged to a Mormon offshoot community where some people practice polygamy spotlights the mainstream church's struggle to distance itself from plural marriage ...

(RNS) — Latter-day Saints are once again on the wrong side of justice, the wrong side of the gospel and the wrong side of history. Update 11/13/24: After this was published, the B. H. Roberts ...

2,500 Mormons created a settlement called “Cutler’s Park” in August 1846 in what is now Omaha. The settlement is considered Nebraska’s first town. The settlers got permission from a U.S. Indian Agent ...

All "Mormon Elder-Berry's" children -- "The new race" -- Red, white, and Mormon : "ingratiating themselves with the Indians" -- Red, white, and Mormon : white Indians ...

Also: A history-making prophet-president discusses her faith; South America is celebrated; tragedy strikes a youth group.

OAKLEY • It’s a long way from Salt Lake City — but it would be safe to say that there are more Mormons in Oakley, per capita, than in the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

Information about the changing West can be found at the Web site of the PBS series "The West." Letters should be no more than 250 words long. You might introduce this activity by discussing with ...