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 ...

The professional study of Mormon history was born as a collaboration between the community and the state, an unlikely alliance that prompted a cultural reckoning and launched a new era for The Church ...

(RNS) — In 1857, when Latter-day Saints deemed actions emanating from Washington, DC, to be significant breaches of ...

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 ...

We discuss the history and evolution of Latter-day Saint garments — from the days of church founder Joseph Smith to the new craze over sleeveless options — with the authors of a new book, “Mormon ...

What inspired you to write Race and the Making of the Mormon People? Let me be a bit confessional. I’m not a Mormon, but Mormon culture has probably formed me more than any other religious culture ...

OGDEN — The Mormon History Association is bringing its annual conference back to Ogden for the first time in more than two decades. Last week, the Mormon History Association announced that its 60th ...

The Museum of Mormon Mexican History was started by Fernando and Enriqueta Gomez. Though he attended church in Mexico as a young boy, Fernando still learned about the pioneers in the United States.

Dena, the owner of rifle from the mid-1850s with connections to the Mormon Church, talked to us about her exciting appraisal and her plans for this family heirloom at the June 2009 taping for ANTIQUES ...