Brigham Young joined the Church of the Latter-day Saints, originally called the Church of Christ, in April 1832. Born in Whitingham, Vermont, Young relocated to New York at a young age with his ...

Netflix's limited series American Primeval has sparked renewed debate about Brigham Young, a controversial figure in American history. Brigham Young was neither completely evil nor absolutely ...

Brigham Young is a notable figure in the history of the United States, but there appears to be more to the man than is shown in American Primeval.

Here's how second-year BYU basketball coach Kevin Young can trace his lineage back to Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...

This Note uncovers the history of how the Brigham Young University Police Department blurred the boundaries between criminal law and church doctrine. These practices included sting operations that ...

Over more than a century of moviemaking, D’Arc said, the depiction of Brigham Young — the man who led the Latter-day Saint settlers to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 and served as Utah’s first ...

Instead, the authority of the Mormon Church was supreme. It settled all matters, and Brigham Young and his apostles openly said they had no use for the United States Judges. During my time in Salt ...

BYU is named after Brigham Young. The church’s second prophet, Young led the Mormons to Utah starting in the late 1840s and displaced and killed thousands of Utah Natives to do so.