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, ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

McKay Coppins, a staff writer at The Atlantic and also a member of the Mormon church, said mainstream acceptance was kind of ...

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.

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 ...