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 ...

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have a standard crossing-the-Plains narrative: Pioneers traversed the Mississippi River on the ice led by Brigham Young. Everything was well ...

Beloved independent historian Ardis E. Parshall, known for digging out little-known tidbits from Latter-day Saint history, has died.

For many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Pioneer Day is more than just a historical remembrance, it’s personal. Descendants of early church pioneers carry stories of ...

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 ...

DAVENPORT -- Before they went back to school, a group of about 70 teens went back even further. They slipped back to the mid-1840s and took a three-day "Faith in Every Footstep" Mormon Pioneer Trek, ...

To early settlers in Grand Junction, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah was something to be feared. In 1884, three years after settlers arrived here, the Grand Junction News ...