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

The city of Quincy has always been a welcoming community, but never more so than during the winter of 1838-1839 when the residents provided aid, shelter, and comfort to the distressed Mormons who were ...

Dear HCN,Bigotry is an easy label to apply to Ray Ring’s piece on the Martin’s Cove land exchange (HCN, 9/30/02: This land holds a story the church won’t tell), but most Mormons don’t recognize a lot ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, a tragedy unfolded in northern Mexico in the state of Sonora, close to the U.S. border. Nine members of one Mormon family were murdered when gunmen ambushed the vehicles they were ...

(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 ...

More than 100 congregants posed for a photo outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints in the 3500 block of West Seventh Street on a Sunday morning in 1960. Courtesy Fort Worth Texas ...

Cruising is one of my favorite kinds of vacation. Cruising to the Bahamas with women who are interested in Mormon history? That’s basically a dream come true for me. So the same day I learned such a ...