The drama “Jane and Emma” takes an intimate and intense approach to a historic event — the 1844 slaying of Joseph Smith, founder and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — ...

Many modern Mormons see black LDS pioneer Jane Manning James as heroic. What they may not know is what an unlikely, even risky, friendship the 19th-century free black member had with the first lady of ...

In a 2012 file photo, women walk by a statue of Joseph and Emma Smith outside the church office building for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. Mormon church founder ...

Excerpted from "American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church" In the last eighteen months of his life, Joseph Smith introduced the Mormon faithful to the Old ...

Despite what Big Love and Chloe Sevigny taught us, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints stopped recognizing plural marriages as a practice nearly 125 years ago. But in a surprising essay ...

Our family is saddened to announce the passing of Emma Trude Smith, our beloved mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, aunt, great aunt, and cousin, from this earthly world. “Ms. Emma”, as ...