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 ...
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The Salt Lake Tribune: ‘Mormon Land’: Was Joseph Smith a prophet or a scoundrel? New biography shows bits of both.
‘Mormon Land’: Was Joseph Smith a prophet or a scoundrel? New biography shows bits of both.
Historians who have spent decades studying the life of Joseph Smith Jr. — born 220 years ago on Dec. 23, 1805 — report that the deeper one is willing to study, the more clarity arises about the kind ...
Yahoo: These historians spent years studying the prophet Joseph Smith’s life. Here’s what they learned about him
For Latter-day Saints across the globe, Thursday marks the 180th anniversary of a tragedy — on , an armed mob stormed into Carthage Jail and took the lives of the prophet Joseph Smith and ...
These historians spent years studying the prophet Joseph Smith’s life. Here’s what they learned about him
(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. (RNS) — When John Turner’s biography ...
MSN: Understanding Joseph Smith through the eyes of those who knew him
Somewhere along the six-hour horseback ride from Nauvoo to Carthage, Ill., where Joseph Smith was martyred in 1844, he shared with his small group of travel companions a foreboding that he would soon ...