When Dallin H. Oaks speaks at BYU next week, he will be delivering his first major public address since become the LDS Church ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2018, then-LDS Church President Russell Nelson called on everyone to stop most uses of the "Mormon" term. Nearly, eight ...

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 ...