Ensign Peak Foundation#Publications

The foundation was originally started in 1992 as the Ensign Peak Foundation, involved in the creation of Ensign Peak Park in Salt Lake City, Utah.{{cite news | author=R. Scott Lloyd | title=Park at Ensign Peak dedicated | date=August 3, 1996 | work=Church News | url=https://www.thechurchnews.com/1996/8/3/23253495/park-at-ensign-peak-dedicated | accessdate=2023-08-21}} After the success of this project the organization changed to the Mormon Historic Sites Foundation and undertook a broader mission.{{cite book | first1=Dennis A. | last1=Wright | first2=Rebekah E. | last2=Westrup | title=Salt Lake City: The Place Which God Prepared | editor1=Scott C. Esplin | editor2=Kenneth L. Alford | chapter=Ensign Peak | publisher=Religious Studies Center | location=Provo, UT | year=2011 | isbn=978-0-8425-2799-6 | chapter-url=https://rsc.byu.edu/salt-lake-city-place-which-god-prepared/ensign-peak#_note-46 | accessdate=2023-08-21}} Their next major project was the restoration of Kirtland, Ohio including the working towards the relocation of the main road so visitors would not have to compete with traffic in visiting the historic sites there.

The new name of the organization first appeared in the LDS Church News, about a ceremony held in 1998 to remember the Haun's Mill Massacre, held jointly by the MHSF and the Missouri Mormon Frontier Foundation.{{cite news |last= Baugh |first= Alexander L. |authorlink= Alexander L. Baugh |title= Haun's Mill remembered |newspaper= LDS Church News |date= November 7, 1998 |url= https://www.thechurchnews.com/archive/1998-11-07/hauns-mill-remembered-13016 }}

In 2020 the organization returned to its original name, Ensign Peak Foundation, after the LDS Church discouraged use of the "Mormon" nickname.{{cite web | title=HISTORY | publisher=Ensign Peak Foundation | url=https://ensignpeakfoundation.org/about-us/ | accessdate=2023-08-21}}

The Foundation published a semiannual scholarly journal called Mormon Historical Studies. It features "essays, biographies, documents, book reviews, historical site descriptions, indexes, and archival listings relevant to subjects of general interest to Latter-day Saints".{{citation |url= http://mormonhistoricsites.org/publications/ |title= Publications |work= MormonHistoricSites.org |publisher= Mormon Historic Sites Foundation |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150106213234/http://mormonhistoricsites.org/publications/ |archive-date= 2015-01-06 |url-status= live }}

Mormon Historical Studies was originally The Nauvoo Journal, until its name change in spring 2000. The Nauvoo Journal started with Lyman D. Platt and the Early Mormon Research Institute in 1989, intending to aid Mormon History "by bringing to light previously unknown and little used records, by correcting false research and traditions, by indexing of other difficult records, and by publishing many sources that are inaccessible to hundreds of interested family historians and genealogists".{{citation |last= Platt |first= Lyman D. |year= 1989 |url= http://mormonhistoricsites.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/NJ1_Platt1.pdf |title= Early Mormon Sources, 1830-1900 |journal= The Nauvoo Journal |volume= 1 |publisher= Early Mormon Research Institute |page= 4 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150106214056/http://mormonhistoricsites.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/NJ1_Platt1.pdf |archive-date= 2015-01-06 |url-status= live }}

In 2020 the journal was renamed to Latter-day Saint Historical Studies.{{cite web | title=Latter-day Saint historical studies | work=FamilySearch Catalog | publisher=FamilySearch | url=https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/4464065 | accessdate=2023-08-21}}

• Junius F. Wells - the "Junius F. Wells Award" is given to individuals who promote the purposes of the Foundation
• Larry R. King - executive director
• J Malan Heslop - president for at least part of the time it was known as the Ensign Peak Foundation
• Historic Kirtland Village

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• {{cite news |last= Stahle |first= Shaun D. |title= Preserving history with aid of historic sites foundation |newspaper= LDS Church News |date= August 9, 2003 |url= https://www.thechurchnews.com/archive/2003-08-09/preserving-history-with-aid-of-historic-sites-foundation-23996 }}

• [http://mormonhistoricsites.org/ Official website]
• [http://mormonhistoricsites.org/sites-registry/ Sites Registry] maintained by the Foundation

Category:Heritage registers in the United States

*Mormon Historic Sites Foundation

Category:History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Category:Organizations established in 1992

Category:1992 establishments in Utah

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