OGDEN — The Mormon History Association is bringing its annual conference back to Ogden for the first time in more than two decades. Last week, the Mormon History Association announced that its 60th ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

SALT LAKE CITY – The Mormon church made history and injected a bit of diversity into a previously all-white top leadership panel on Saturday by selecting the first-ever Latin-American apostle and the ...

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 ...

Oct. 4, 1929 — April 14, 2025: Jan Shipps, a folksy Southerner with a probing mind and a way with words, dies. Her groundbreaking work made the world notice Latter-day Saints.