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 ...

It’s the phrase on the tip of the tongues of the organizers of this year’s Mormon History Association conference. The June 13-16 event, which will feature many of the biggest names in the world of ...

(RNS) — Debates over gender, race and sexuality have been part of Mormonism since Kirtland, says historian Benjamin Park. So yes, contemporary Mormonism has been deeply shaped by the culture wars, ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...