Yes. Though the Utah War has been called “bloodless,” in reality, Mormon militiamen in southern Utah perpetrated a horrific war atrocity on Sept. 11, 1857, in a valley called Mountain Meadows (which, ...

Fundamentally, Brigham Young was a man of peace; if his tongue occasionally slipped, his actions did not, writes Latter-day ...

On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

What’s behind the media and pop culture’s longstanding fascination with Mormon violence? And how often do they get the story ...

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 ...

Patriots' Day, a holiday which commemorates the start of the Revolutionary War, could soon be recognized in Utah thanks a new ...

The culmination of a decade of tension and mutual suspicion between Mormon pioneers and the United States government, the Mountain Meadows Massacre took place during the Utah War—a conflict some ...

(RNS) — What does the popular new Netflix series, “American Primeval,” get wrong about the Utah War? Just about everything. Utah historian and author Barbara Jones Brown explains why that ...

The tragedy occurred during the so-called Utah War, a time of heightened tensions after the federal government, wary of the theocracy in place, sent troops to the Utah Territory. For their part ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Patriots' Day, a holiday which commemorates the start of the Revolutionary War, could soon be recognized in Utah thanks a new resolution introduced in the House. HCR7 would ...