John G. Turner’s new book is a nimble account that showcases the frenzied core of Smith’s soul.

Adam Petty, of the Church History Department, speaks to the crowd at a commemorative service June 27 outside the Historic ...

Hundreds gathered at Historic Carthage Jail on June 27, the 181st anniversary of the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith.

Dennis Rader, the so-called "BTK" (bind, torture, kill) killer, pleaded guilty to 10 slayings in the Wichita, Kan., area. He ...

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 ...

On June 27, 1957, Hurricane Audrey slammed into coastal Louisiana and Texas as a Category 4 storm, causing as many as 600 deaths. In 1844, Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were ...

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 ...

Visitors to the historic Joseph Smith Memorial Building can once again enjoy access to the lobby and mezzanine levels of the ...

The Joseph Smith Memorial Building reopened to the public after a two-and-a-half-year renovation project.The building, ...