Mormon History and Culture

   Above is an 1899 news clipping from The Boston Globe. I apologize the text is mostly unreadable. It's a feature, however, on a "...

  Review by Doug Gibson If you are a longtime Mormon like me, you know a healthy amount of the stories out there. There's that missionar...

  I n contrast to the Mormon Church’s bitter rejection at the 1893 Chicago Parliament of Religions, the territory of Utah was warmly receive...

---- In the Winter 2013 “Journal of Mormon History,” there’s an interesting article from Robert H. Briggs, a lawyer and historian from Calif...

Utah’s first serious presidential candidate was not Mitt Romney, of course, or even Sen. Orrin Hatch, who ran a weak race in 2000 that ...

Review by Doug Gibson " Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith ," 2019, University of Oklahoma Press, follow a m...

Mormons, as well as the state of Utah, have been identified as conservative/Republican for so long that it may surprise many to know that...

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

In the small northern community of South Weber, Utah, a monument was erected to the Morrisite War, a small but deadly 1862 battle betwee...

Originally published in 2010 but not much has changed. Utah voters have been reliably Republican in presidential elections for more t...