Mormon History
Clear, sourced answers to the questions people actually ask about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
21 articles
Are Mormons Racist? The Teaching, the Members, the Record
Are Mormons racist? A question about people deserves an answer about people — in three honest parts: what the Church teaches, what its members are, and which direction the record runs. This article gives all three, at full strength.
Black Latter-day Saints: A History
The history of Black Latter-day Saints, told through its people: Elijah Abel, Jane Manning James, Green Flake, Samuel Chambers, the Genesis Group, Ghana's waiting congregations, and today's leaders — from 1830 to now.
Blacks & the Priesthood: The Mormon Ban, 1978 & Why
Blacks and the priesthood: why couldn't Black Latter-day Saints hold it until 1978? What happened is documented; the explanations are disavowed by name; the origin is officially unrevealed. The full record, every faithful position, and the 1978 revelation.
Is the Book of Mormon Racist? Every Verse, Every Reading
Is the Book of Mormon racist? The hard verses quoted in full — 2 Nephi 5:21, Alma 3:6 — the arc that rebukes the racial reading, the readers who taught it for generations, and the correction: the mark is officially 'not fully understood.'
What Is the Curse of Cain? The Bible, the Myth & the Record
The curse of Cain in Genesis is a failed harvest and a wanderer's life — the mark is protection, never skin. How three texts were spliced into a racial theory, how Latter-day Saints taught it, and the 2013 disavowal by name.
Helen Mar Kimball: What the Record Actually Shows
Sealed to Joseph Smith at fourteen — and polygamy’s most prolific female defender. Every document, every quote, with its provenance.
Blacks in Mormonism: Race, the Priesthood Ban & the Church
From Elijah Abel's 1836 ordination to the 1978 revelation and today's global church — the complete, documented history of Black Latter-day Saints.
Joseph Smith & Polygamy: How It Began & What the Record Shows
Did Joseph Smith practice polygamy? Yes — 30–40 wives, ages 14–58, in secret. The documented story: the angel, Emma, D&C 132, and how it ended.
Joseph Smith’s Seer Stones: The Hat, the Plates & the Truth
What are Joseph Smith’s seer stones? The stone, the hat, the treasure years, and the 2015 photographs — how the Book of Mormon was translated, per the eyewitnesses.
The Golden Plates: What They Were & Where They Went
What are the Mormon golden plates? The size, the weight, the eleven witnesses, the hiding places, and where the plates went — the whole record, dated and sourced.
In Sacred Loneliness: What Compton's Book Really Says
Is In Sacred Loneliness anti-Mormon? No — it's award-winning scholarship by a believing Latter-day Saint, whose author objects to the sensational use. The book vs. the meme, checked claim by claim.
Mormonism Unveiled (1877): What the Lee Book Really Is
Is Mormonism Unveiled reliable? John D. Lee's 'confessions' were dictated to and edited by his lawyer, sold as exposé — and its marquee accusation is the one claim the documentary record rejects. The book, weighed.