Associate Professor of History, Henderson State University
Matthew Bowman is an Associate Professor of History at Henderson State University and the author or editor of several books, including Christian: The Politics of a Word in America (Harvard, 2018) and The Mormon People: the Making of an American Faith (Random House, 2012).

How the Mormon church's past shapes its position on immigration today
Jul 24, 2018 16:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
On July 24, 1847, Brigham Young and 146 other Mormon pioneers made their way into the Salt Lake Valley. They had left the United States and found themselves in Mexican territory. At the time, the Mexican-American War...