Historian Janiece Johnson explains why "American Primeval" falls short in helping viewers understand the Old West, including ...
American Primeval’ buried wrongheaded stereotypes even deeper into the public psyche and did little to bring understanding of ...
What’s behind the media and pop culture’s longstanding fascination with Mormon violence? And how often do they get the story ...
Bullets fly and arrows whiz amid screams of agony during the chaos that is the “American Primeval” treatment of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a merciless attack carried out in southern Utah ...
By exposing the brutality and moral contradictions that shaped the frontier, the series challenges viewers to sit with ...
American Primeval’ dramatizes a massacre in the Wild West, an ‘American Manhunt’ documentary revisits the O.J. Simpson case, ...
The instigation of the story is the real-life Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which these Mormon militia members killed more than 100 members of a wagon train traveling through Utah. Some of the ...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints newsroom recently released a statement on historical accuracy in media ...
Throughout the 30-minute podcast, Grow explains more of the details around both the Mountain Meadows Massacre and the Bear River Massacre. He also provides additional context on that time in the ...