(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The program placed Native American children who had been baptized in the LDS church into the foster homes of church members during the school year, when they'd attend majority-white schools. In the ...

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 ...