For Latter-day Saints across the globe, Thursday marks the 180th anniversary of a tragedy — on June 27, 1844, an armed mob stormed into Carthage Jail and took the lives of the prophet Joseph Smith and ...

Smith emerged not as a weathered leader but as a prophet increasingly defined by bolder claims, expanding authority, and ...

The project team for the Joseph Smith Papers is set to release the final volume of the papers on June 27, the 179th anniversary of the Prophet’s martyrdom. The Joseph Smith Papers project is a ...

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Was Joseph Smith a true prophet or a religious pretender? Vogel, who edited the five-volume series Early Mormon Documents, attempts to answer this and other questions in this somewhat tedious, ...

Here are some helpful extras before you press play about the flick. Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration starring Nathan Mitchell, Rick Macy, Tayva Patch, David Nibley has a Not Rated rating, ...

“Joseph the Prophet” will join a long list of books about the church founder, with authors ranging from his mother to an apostle to Fawn Brodie and Richard Bushman.

“I always believed it was him,” says the owner of the hotly debated daguerreotype. Adds an LDS historian: “The mere possibility of its veracity reminds us that Smith was a historical figure of flesh ...

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

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