The founder of the Mormon Church rocked 19th-century America with his spiritual visions, his belief in polygamy—and even a presidential run.

Would any man with forty wives, teenage brides and other men’s wives, ever become a spiritual leader of a New Testament ...

After 22 years of documenting, filing, writing and editing, the historians and researchers behind The Joseph Smith Papers published the final volume of their groundbreaking project Tuesday on the ...

According to the press release, “Documents Volume 15” relates the final chapter of the Prophet Joseph Smith's life. Scholars within the Church and outside of it have lauded the series for the ...

Park teaches American religious history at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of American Zion: A New History of Mormonism September 21, 2023 marks the 200th anniversary of the date that ...

Historian Bushman (Joseph Smith) offers a meticulous study of the gold plates that Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, reported discovering near his home in Palmyra, N.Y., in 1823. Bushman ...

Fifty years ago this spring, Lester Bush published a groundbreaking article in “Dialogue” that carefully reviewed how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first came to ban Black people ...

Today’s dedication of the restored Joseph Smith home in Kirtland by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints celebrates this year’s 20th anniversary of Historic Kirtland, the restored village ...

An exclusive focus on human struggle in the past misses the most important action taking place, say historians with the ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Following 2½ years of renovation work, and representing just a portion of the expansive ongoing project at Temple Square, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the ...