The 2022 announcement that a locket contained a daguerreotype, purportedly the only known photograph of Mormonism founder ...

Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was the first known U.S. presidential candidate to be assassinated. Smith was not on the national ballot, nor was he endorsed ...

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Smith was not on the national ballot, nor was he endorsed by either major political party at the time, the Whigs or the Democrats. A 2008 congressional report recording "Direct Assaults Against ...

Flight -- Part 1. "In Illinois we've found a safe retreat-- ". King Joseph ; Zion, Illinois ; Everybody hates the Mormons ; Polygamy and its discontents -- Part 2. "Oh! Illinois! thy soil has drank ...

LDS Bible scholar Dan McClellan explores what the church's recent approval of modern Bible translations — besides the King James Version — will mean for members' study. While boosting their knowledge ...

“His gentle, chivalrous and reverential manner towards all women was a distinguishing trait in the character of this most ...

The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal, Vol. 43, No. 1, 50th Anniversary (Spring/Summer 2023), pp. 185-204 (20 pages) Joseph Smith, Manuscript History of the Church, Book A–1, 10, Joseph ...