Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was the first known U.S. presidential candidate to be assassinated. Rating: Mixture (About this rating?) What's True: It's ...

It's true that Joseph Smith announced a bid for the presidency in January 1844. A mob killed him in June of the same year when he was in custody at an Illinois jail. However … What's False Smith ...

Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...

Untold History (Video) Joseph Smith: American Prophet. Posted: January 15, 2025 | Last updated: March 7, 2025. Inspired by the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, Joseph Smith founded ...

Considering the chaotic first 14 years before founding Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., was assassinated, it is incredible that today his Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (nicknamed “Mormon” ...

In 2012, scholar John Turner published an award-winning biography of Brigham Young, a mountain of a man in Western Americana. But there remained a bigger fish to pursue, namely Joseph Smith, the ...

(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.