Mormon founder Joseph Smith was 14 years old when he said the God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him in response to a prayer 200 years ago. Ever since, teenagers have played key roles in ...

The Mormon History Association recently awarded the Joseph Smith Papers a 'special citation' for its historical work. The project team will release the final volume of the papers on June 27 ...

The importance of Joseph Smith in history -- this is a man people compare to Moses. ... Joseph Smith's uniqueness can, I think, be understood by an analogy that I sometimes use to Henry Ford.

He name-checks the twin peaks of prior Smith biographies, Fawn Brodie’s brilliant, apostatic “No Man Knows My History” (1945) and Richard Bushman’s erudite, faith-affirming “Joseph Smith ...

Social media is all abuzz about a newly discovered daguerreotype that reportedly is the only known photo of Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith. But is it really him? Believers, historians and ...

(Courtesy of the Church History Museum) Death mask of Joseph Smith. What did they conclude? Their take was that 19 of 21 points were within the 5% range of probability for matching.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Church Historian Kyle S. McKay talks about the final print volume in The Joseph Smith Papers during a news conference at the Church History Library on Tuesday ...

The death masks of Joseph and Hyrum Smith are displayed at the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. Researchers compared Joseph Smith’s death mask with a new ...

“Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration” (2005) Mitchell is the screen Smith most current Latter-day Saints know, since he played the founder in a much-screened church-produced biography.

Latter-day Saints will recognize the names and major events, but should be aware “Joseph Smith and the Mormons,” available on July 26 via Abrams Books, wasn’t produced by the church.

The Church of Jesus Christ said Turley will rely on the research and help of Church History Department scholars, Joseph Smith Papers historians, the Family History Department and BYU professors.