The show emphasizes his strategic use of the Mormon militia during the Utah War ... leading the community through periods of persecution and eventual migration to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.

This atrocity unfolded against the backdrop of the Utah war, a conflict between Mormon settlers and the US government. Heightened tensions, fuelled by paranoia about federal persecution and anti ...

New film recounts the story of six religious groups and how each fought for their right to exercise their faith — and why it ...

American Primeval has propelled a controversial historical figure into the center of public discourse, Brigham Young, but ...

Brigham Young (1801-1877) was a central figure in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) and ...

Jonathan Rauch wants the church to act as a “load-bearing wall” in American civic life. But his appeal lacks a clear audience ...

Chris Bensinger’s novel “The Sooner You Forget” follows the story of a young Catholic man who, while serving in the United ...

American Primeval takes place within the years of the Utah War, and here is everything you need to know about the real-life war behind the Netflix Western miniseries, explained. Although there ...

Audiences are devouring the grisly Netflix miniseries “ American Primeval ,” a work of historical fiction centered around the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre in which Mormon militiamen in southwestern ...

In these territories, religious communities that Russia does not like are banned or have their rights restricted, examples being Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the Ukrainian ...

Jacob leads a small group of fellow Mormons, including his new wife, Abish (Saura Lightfoot-Leon), as they escape the brutal persecution they endured in the east. DeHaan delivers an intense and ...

There was a messianic fervor in Trump’s Second Inaugural speech that wasn’t evident eight years ago. As dark as the 2016 ...