[Talk about the persecution of the Mormons.] The hatred of Mormonism is mysterious. It's fascinating; it's perplexing. Mormons were plain old, largely white, English-descended American farmers who ...

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 ...

"Mormons have a very complex relationship with their own sense of persecution," says historian Sarah Barringer Gordon. "It is unfair to say that they courted persecution. On the other hand ...