Mormon History and Culture

I’m haunted by a ragged PDF-copied photograph, courtesy of the Utah State Historical Society, of Louisa “Louie” Wells, who 130 years ago was...

  Review by Doug Gibson In “ Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath ” (Oxford University Press, 2023), authors...

Review and musings by Doug Gibson The late Utah-born author John D. Fitzgerald is certainly not a household name, but many of his books...

Originally published at StandardBlogs in 2011.  The crude, casual racism of a long-ago era is striking in this Nov. 28, 1860 Deseret Ne...

Ever heard of Utah territorial Chief Justice Charles Shuster Zane ? He’s one of those fascinating footnotes in history. Appointed in 188...

“ Things in Heaven and Earth ,” Thomas Alexander’s exhaustive biography of Mormonism’s fourth prophet, Wilford Woodruff, provides justi...

The diaries of the late LDS Church Apostle, Abraham H. Cannon, stretching from 1889 to the end of 1895, is interesting church history rea...

I’m haunted by a ragged PDF-copied photograph, courtesy of the Utah State Historical Society, of Louisa “Louie” Wells, who 130 years ago...

The murder of Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt, slain by the husband of a woman Pratt had taken as a plural wife, was national news in 18...