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 ...

At an academic gathering in 2011, the distinguished historian Richard Bushman declared that we had entered a “golden age” for Mormon studies. The setting was an academic conference held in the ...

With his fourth book on Mormonism, Givens (By the Hand of Mormon; Viper on the Hearth) earns his place as one of the great LDS scholars of his time. Students of religion, history and culture will find ...

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 ...

While I gather the courage to trudge into official church history, I'm taking comfort in another history. You won't find it online, or at Deseret Book. You'll find my Mormon history in recipe cards ...