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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Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, by John G. Turner (Yale, $35) Born in 1805 to a hardscrabble Vermont family and raised amid the fervor of the Second Great Awakening, Joseph ...

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 ...

The Friends of the Boyden Library's Spring Author Series, Plus One! continues on Thursday, March 19 with a talk by noted author and journalist Alex Beam in the Library's Community Meeting Room at 7 ...

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 ...