A conversation with the patriarch of Mormon historians, 94-year-old Richard Bushman, who discusses how the LDS Church has ...

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, ...

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, ...

July 24th is Utah’s unique holiday. It commemorates the arrival of religious pioneers fleeing persecution in the Midwest. For many in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, their arrival ...

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 ...

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.

With 4 ounces of flour and the name of a church pioneer hanging around their necks, area Mormon youths recently walked in the footsteps of their faith. In July, 65 teenagers and 25 adults from the ...

Fort Robinson became the site for many historic events, including the surrender of Crazy Horse in 1877 and a major battle following the Cheyenne Outbreak. The Pershing Auditorium in Lincoln opened on ...