T he relationship between Blacks in Mormonism is a deeply complex and evolving one. For much of the church’s history, this topic has been marked by both exclusion and eventual change ...

Courtesy: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. April: The Mormon pioneer company led by Young leave their winter quarters in western Iowa and head west.

A New History of Mormonism,” in a Zoom interview with Religion News Service. Emma Smith, the prophet’s first wife, “was agitating for change and a space within the community within months of ...

American Primeval, Netflix’s flashy (and quite gory) new series depicts the clash between zealous Mormons, imperial federal ...

Mr. Conn is a professor of history at Ohio State University, and a writer for the History News Service. You'd think that of all people, Mitt Romney, a Mormon, would know better. In his recent, ...

Joseph Smith is one of the most fulsome characters in 19th-century American history: a visionary, an organizer, a schemer, a mover of people, an inventor of a religion that brought polygamy to ...

Yet the Mormon story deserves to be better known. It illuminates one side of the development of a pioneer society, and forms a commentary upon many of the main themes of American history. The church ...