President Dallin H. Oaks speaks at the Joseph Smith Papers Conference on Friday and announced that a new biography is being written about Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of ...

(RNS) — ‘I think the evidence for Joseph’s polygamous sealings is pretty overwhelming,’ says historian John Turner, who has penned a new biography of Joseph Smith.

John G. Turner, the author of a new biography of Smith, has relatively few illusions about his subject. “I wouldn’t trust him with my money, my wife, or my daughter,” he writes.

(RNS) — ‘I think the evidence for Joseph’s polygamous sealings is pretty overwhelming,’ says historian John Turner, who has penned a new biography of Joseph Smith.

Joseph Smith is a deeply divisive figure, and the same basic camps that existed in his own day to either revile or revere the man are alive and well in our own. He’s either a con artist or he ...

On July 21, Mormons were rocked by news that a great-great-grandson of Joseph Smith had discovered a daguerreotype he believes to be the only known photograph of the prophet. Almost immediately ...

Joseph Smith's "moves to seduce other men's wives were so brazen and notorious that they led one distraught husband, Orson Pratt, to attempt suicide in Nauvoo, Illinois, on July 14, 1842." ...

(RNS) — In 2000 and 2001, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints focused its worldwide curriculum on the teachings of Joseph F. Smith (1838 – 1918), a nephew of the founding prophet ...

The project team for the Joseph Smith Papers is set to release the final volume of the papers on June 27, ... Since 2008, new volumes of the papers have been published about twice a year.

Françoise Mouly and Genevieve Bormes interview the cartoonist Noah Van Sciver, whose new book, “Joseph Smith and the Mormons,” is a graphic-novel biography of the American prophet. An excerpt ...

To Smith, it was “a divine calling,” says Bushman, author of the acclaimed “Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling,” “embedded in the providential working of history, in which one people’s ...