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 ...