Opinion

Historians of Joseph Smith’s entire life speak of his integrity

We live in a world of intoxicated people who think that they know’ based on a little internet research, Joseph Smith historian says ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

LDS Church releases final volume of founding prophet’s letters on anniversary of his death

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 ...
Salon

Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy

Excerpted from "American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church" In the last eighteen months of his life, Joseph Smith introduced the Mormon faithful to the Old ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

‘The whole affect feels off to me’ — Why some historians doubt that’s a photo of Joseph Smith

Seeing is believing, so the saying goes, and that was instantly true for some viewers of the recently discovered daguerreotype purporting to be Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith. “My immediate thought ...