Mormon

Mormon church publishes its first official history in nearly a century, and the result is an easy-to-read volume that tackles some hard facts

Few, if any, books about the beginning of Mormonism start with an Indonesian volcano.

How the Mormon church's past shapes its position on immigration today

by Matthew Bowman

Revisiting the story of the Mormon settlement of the Salt Lake Valley has profound implication for the ways the leadership of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today thinks about issues of immigration.

A Fake Site Posted an Apology for the Mormon Church’s History of Racism

Black Mormons wish it was real.

Leonard Arrington’s vast journals show battles the Mormon historian had with LDS leaders

He wanted to expose the truth about the past they wanted to keep secret. 

New Asian-American, Brazilian apostles make Mormon history

The Mormon church made history and injected diversity into a top leadership panel on Saturday by selecting the first-ever Latin-American apostle and the first-ever apostle of Asian ancestry.

Mormons perform baptisms on Holocaust victims

Mormons are posthumously baptizing Holocaust victims as well as grandparents of public figures like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg, despite church rules intended to restrict the ceremonies to a member's ancestors.

Historian digs into the hidden world of Mormon finances

In a new book D. Michael Quinn shows how church went from losing money to making money — lots of it.

$35 million Book of Mormon manuscript sale called the ‘biggest game-changer in Mormon history’

It was sold to the LDS church by the break-off sect, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

“I’m white with the exception of the color of my skin.”

by Emma Green

In a new book Max Perry Mueller profiles blacks who became Mormons.

Conference celebrates 100 years of late Mormon scholar Leonard Arrington

Arrington was appointed church historian by LDS Church in 1972.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich out with a new book about Mormon women

by Beverly Gage

It answers the question: How the women came to embrace polygamy.

New scholarship coming to Mormon lessons, but will instructors really teach it?

For more than a century, Mormons have been telling a straightforward story of their movement's founding, prophetic leadership and believers. During the past few years, however, they have been confronted with a dramatic retelling, with fresh details, context and examples of human foibles fleshing out — and sometimes debunking — the familiar facts they have always believed.

New biography tells all about a forthright Mormon historian, Leonard Arrington, who told all

To the end of his life Arrington worried that he might face some kind of church discipline for his candid approach to the past.

LDS Church has gone from 0 to 4 historians specializing in women’s history

"We all know there is a lot of sensitivity related to questions about women in the church right now."

This Mormon pseudo-historian is why the Oregon militants are so confused about the Constitution

Constitutional scholars generally hold W. Cleon Skousen’s theories in churlish regard.

Mormons acknowledge early polygamy days at renovated museum

The Mormon church’s renovated history museum set to reopen this week features a small and surprising display about an uncomfortable part of the faith’s history that for generations has been glossed over: polygamy.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich says bad marriages had women running to and away from Mormon polygamy

Her observations were made in the course of her presidential address to the Mormon History Association

New generation of historians presenting a better view of Mormonism to the world, speaker says

The comments were made by J.B. Hates at the 50th anniversary of the Mormon History Association Conference.

New Mormon mission

How to teach members the messy part of LDS history, theology

It’s Official: Mormon Founder Had Up to 40 Wives

Mormon leaders have acknowledged for the first time that the church’s founder and prophet, Joseph Smith, took as many as 40 wives, some already married and one only 14 years old.