Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the ...

Mormon president Wilford Woodruff announced in a document known as "The Manifesto" that the church would renounce the practice of polygamy. Utah was admitted to the United States on January 4 ...

The church disavowed polygamy in 1890 as a condition of Utah statehood, and today members of the faith found to be practicing plural marriage are excommunicated. Fundamentalist Mormons ...

A YOUNG woman who grew up in an incestuous family and cult has revealed how she managed to escape her arranged marriage with ...

Polygamy is a fixed family structure in which more than two people are married. In Utah, it's overwhelmingly linked to Mormon sects that still practice plural marriage, which the Church of Jesus ...

where Mormons fled and went to Utah to be able to practice polygamy in peace.” Grenfell delved further, saying that those ...

The prophecy ending polygamy came as the Mormon Territory of Deseret was seeking statehood ... even though sex ed is not mandatory in Utah. Go figure. Duck and Cover—Igniting a MAGA Civil War Make ...

Mormons challenged anti-polygamy statutes ... pardoned polygamists, and admitted Utah to the Union in 1896. The Manifesto, though never described as a revelation, has remained the official ...

It’s one of the most harrowing scenes in Netflix’s grim Western. But is its depiction of the Mountain Meadows atrocities ...

In 1956 Utah authorities seized seven children of ... So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.

"Let Utah alone," says B. H. Roberts. "Polygamy will die of itself," says the Mormon church. Polygamy, I reply, will die when we kill it, and not sooner. What matter if new polygamous marriages ...