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

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 ...

For Mormons, July 24 is Pioneer Day, a holiday commemorating the date when Brigham Young and an original band of Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. My grandmother’s grandmother, ...

CEDAR CITY — Isaac C. Haight, noted Mormon pioneer and Cedar City's first mayor, was reburied last week in his former hometown alongside three of his five wives, just over 137 years after his death.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Church of Latter-day Saints (LDS) Elder George Peterson explained the migration of Mormons to Independence, MO and the subsequent migrations to ...

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 ...

Pioneer Day was never a big deal in my family. That was largely because half my childhood was lived outside of Utah, where we enjoyed being Mormon minorities within regions dominated by other cultural ...