Every schoolboy knows that the Mormons (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) used to practice “celestial marriage,” better known as polygamy. Last summer sombre Idaho Novelist Vardis ...

The two women leading conference say there should be more academic debate on the evidence. But opponents say the faith has ...

SALT LAKE CITY – A new historical narrative posted by the Mormon church on its website officially acknowledges that some plural marriages were performed after an 1890 ban and that polygamy was widely ...

SALT LAKE CITY - Mormon church founder Joseph Smith had a teenage bride and was married to other men's wives during the early days of the faith when polygamy was practiced, a new church essay ...

A new A&E documentary series is exposing the reality of life within several Mormon sects that still embrace polygamy – including one associated with the stars of TLC’s hit series Sister Wives. Through ...

“Historians like to say, ‘No source, no history,’” Laurel Thatcher Ulrich writes in her new book, “A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870.” Until not ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said his Mormon religious faith's history of polygamy could trouble American voters but that he too is bothered by it. The former ...

The Nov. 21 front-page article "Polygamists Fight to Be Seen as Part of Mainstream Society" asserted that "the politically powerful Mormon Church, while officially opposing polygamy, did not want the ...

CHEYENNE — Mormonism, murder, polygamy and pioneers: These four things are what Dan Neal was interested in researching when writing his book about the 1911 murder of his grandfather in Darby, Idaho.