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, ...

Mormon Battalion members gather for a photo at the 50-year anniversary of their enlistment with the U.S. Army. Kristina Kaufman works on the Mormon Battalion Project in the Center for Family History ...

The year is 1847. Mormon pioneers are trekking toward the deserts of the Mountain West. Their new leader, Brigham Young, is on a quest to find a new plot of Earth, far away from an unfriendly federal ...

Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the U.S. government came to a violent head in the 1850s. The Mountain Meadows ...

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 ...

Seventy-five years ago this month, a new book drastically changed how Latter-day Saints viewed their own history: Juanita Brooks' "The Mountain Meadows Massacre." This is Old News, where we recount ...