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 ...

Joseph Smith’s story becomes even stranger when the focus shifts from Mormonism’s familiar origin story to the controversies surrounding his claimed ability to interpret ancient records. The ...

A portrait of Joseph Smith Jr., the first prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is unveiled. The ceremony took place Feb. 1 in the Martin Luther King Jr.

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 ...

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 ...

Historians recently found lost sermons of St. Augustine. Here’s what one church historian would love to find in Joseph Smith’s history ...

“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.

27th Joseph Smith Papers print book documents the last six weeks of his life. “I am very much resigned to my lot,” he wrote just before he was slain at Carthage.