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 ...

The early history of the LDS Church is one of persecution and violence. Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), commonly known as the Mormons, was killed by ...

One of Russell M. Nelson’s first acts as Latter-day Saint prophet-president was to select the faith’s first apostles of color — Asian American Gerrit Gong and Brazilian Ulisses Soares. It was a ...

The Joseph Smith Papers project has been called the "lunar mission" of Mormon historical research. The Latter-day Saint ...