A church history professor at Brigham Young University drew parallels between today’s political climate and that of Smith’s era. • Nearly 200 years after publication of the Book of Mormon ...

On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith organized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became its first ... He was a controversial figure in American history—beloved of his followers ...

Courtesy: Church History Library ... Utah's admission to the Union as a state for the next four decades. Joseph Smith III, the Mormon prophet's eldest son, becomes the president of the Reorganized ...

On Feb. 4, 1846, a year and a half after the deaths of Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith, the first families left Nauvoo, Illinois ...

Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the ...

Joseph Smith’s writing desk from the Kirtland ... Christine Blythe — executive director of the Mormon History Association, which plans to hold its annual summer conference in Kirtland in ...