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"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation": Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife (17,121 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
Joseph Smith (15,085 views)
from Latter-day Prophets and the United States Constitution
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Crisis, 1837 (13,827 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: A Faithful, Egyptological Point of View (13,175 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Temple, 1836 (12,949 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible: The Joseph Smith Translation and the King James Translation in Parallel Columns (11,855 views)
Joseph Smith and the Historicity of the Book of Mormon (11,363 views)
from Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures
Firsthand Witness Accounts of the Translation Process (10,983 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
The Probation of a Teenage Seer: Joseph Smith’s Early Experiences with Moroni (9,960 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
John C. Frémont’s 1843–44 Western Expedition and Its Influence on Mormon Settlement in Utah (9,559 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
A Multiplicity of Witnesses: Women and the Translation Process (8,469 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Joseph Smith and "The Vision," 1832 (8,132 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Restoration of All Things: What the Doctrine and Covenants Says (8,073 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Authorship and History of the Lectures on Faith (7,865 views)
from The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective
Joseph Smith Goes to Washington, 1839-40 (7,764 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Hefted and Handled: Tangible Interactions with Book of Mormon Objects (7,347 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
The Prophet's Final Charge to the Twelve, 1844 (7,332 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith in Northern Missouri, 1838 (7,325 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Oliver Cowdery as Second Witness of Priesthood Restoration (7,117 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Joseph Smith, John C. Bennett, and the Extradition Attempt, 1842 (7,021 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Saints' Forced Exodus from Missouri, 1839 (6,885 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Martin Harris’s 1828 Visit to Luther Bradish, Charles Anthon, and Samuel Mitchill (6,824 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible, 1830 (6,748 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Elizabeth Ann Whitmer Cowdery: A Historical Reflection of Her Life (6,398 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
"The Laws of the Church of Christ" (D&C 42): A Textual and Historical Analysis (5,687 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation (5,623 views)
Photo Essay of Church History Sites in Liverpool and the Ribble Valley (5,171 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
The Conversion of Oliver Cowdery (5,066 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
The Brigham Young Journals: Volume 1: April 1832–February 1846 (4,822 views)
Oliver Cowdery in the Doctrine and Covenants (4,795 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Oliver Cowdery as Book of Mormon Scribe (4,762 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
A Seeker’s Guide to the Historical Accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision (4,471 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2011
Zion's Camp (4,418 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Joseph Smith and Abraham Lincoln (4,405 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
The Saints Flee from Ohio to Missouri (4,323 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Suspicion or Trust: Reading the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision (4,187 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
Conquest of the Heart: Implementing the Law of Consecration in Missouri and Ohio (4,144 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 3 No. 2 · 2002
“For Their Salvation Is Necessary and Essential to Our Salvation”: Joseph Smith and the Practice of Baptism and Confirmation for the Dead (4,100 views)
from An Eye of Faith: Essays in Honor Richard O. Cowan
A Method for Evaluating Latter-day Saint History (3,875 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 21 No. 3 · 2020
Expulsion from Zion, 1833 (3,866 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Medical Terms Used by Saints in Nauvoo and Winter Quarters, 1839–48 (3,585 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 3 · 2009
Joseph Smith and the Redemption of Zion, 1834 (3,328 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Doctrines, Covenants, and Sweet Consolation, 1843 (3,106 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
"Something Better" for the Sisters: Joseph Smith and the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo (2,800 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Understanding Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible (2,719 views)
The Nauvoo Temple, 1841 (2,707 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith’s Negotiations to Publish the Book of Mormon (2,662 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
"Taught from on High": The Ministry of Angelic Messengers to the Prophet Joseph Smith (2,641 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Scenes and Incidents in Nauvoo (2,594 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Reconciling Joseph Smith—History 1:10 and 1:18–19 (2,557 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 14 No. 2 · 2013
Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee (2,539 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 18 No. 1 · 2017
Oliver's Joseph (2,511 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Joseph Smith as a Visionary: Heavenly Manifestations in the Latter Days (2,397 views)
Restorations: Scholars in Dialogue from Community of Christ and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (2,367 views)
Israel Barlow and the Founding of Nauvoo (2,355 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 1 · 2009
Fayette: The Place the Church was Organized (2,253 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Discussing Difficult Topics: Plural Marriage (2,213 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 17 No. 1 · 2016
The Peter Whitmer Log Home: Cradle of Mormonism (2,193 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 3 · 2011
The Fall of Kirtland: The Doctrine and Covenants’ Role in Reaffirming Joseph (2,101 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2007
Dan Jones and the Wales Mission (1,916 views)
from The Saints Abroad: Missionaries Who Answered Brigham Young’s 1852 Call to the Nations of the World
Zion’s Camp: A Study in Obedience, Then and Now (1,869 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Thoughts on Reclaiming the History of Relief Society (1,843 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 15 No. 3 · 2014
Zion’s Camp: A Study in Obedience, Then and Now (1,793 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Wilford Woodruff: Missionary in Herefordshire (1,787 views)
from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
“A Revelation I Give unto You”: The Revelation of Jesus Christ to Emma Hale Smith (1,683 views)
from How and What You Worship: Christology and Praxis in the Revelations of Joseph Smith
Wilford Woodruff’s Mission to the Three Counties (1,632 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
“The Poorest of the Poor and the Sickest of the Sick”: The Luman Andros Shurtliff Poor Camp Rescue (1,621 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
The Council of Fifty and Joseph Smith's Presidential Ambitions (1,584 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Thomas Bullock: "The Lord's Clerk" (1,572 views)
from Salt Lake City: The Place Which God Prepared
Race, the Priesthood, and Temples (1,532 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Absence of “Joseph Smith” in the Book of Mormon: Lack of the Name Letter Effect in Nephite, Lamanite, and Jaredite Names (1,523 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 17 No. 2 · 2016
Before 8 August 1839 (1) (1,491 views)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
Joseph Smith's Practice of Plural Marriage (1,486 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
7 April 1844 (2) (Sunday Afternoon). Grove 1/4 mile east of Temple (1,441 views)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
The Early Reception of the Book of Mormon in Nineteenth-Century America (1,398 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
“They Pursue Me without Cause”: Joseph Smith in Hiding and D&C 127, 128 (1,383 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 16 No. 1 · 2015
"The Lord Told Me to Go and I Went": Wilford Woodruff's Missions to the Fox Islands, 1837-38 (1,377 views)
from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
Raising Money in Righteousness: Oliver Cowdery as Banker (1,338 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Latter-day Saints in Tubuai, French Polynesia, Yesterday and Today (1,323 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The Pacific Isles
A Flood of Revelations, 1831 (1,297 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
George A. Smith's Mission with the Twelve in England, 1839–41 (1,293 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
Joseph Smith and the First Principles of the Gospel: 1820-29 (1,232 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
From Kirtland, Ohio, to Far West, Missouri: Following the Trail of the Mormon Mummies (1,226 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 2 No. 1 · 2001
The Joseph Smith Revelations and the Crisis of Early American Spirituality (1,212 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
2 July 1839 (Tuesday) (1,194 views)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
Scenes in Nauvoo after the Martyrdom of the Prophet and Patriarch (1,163 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
The Harvest of Converts (1,157 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
The Economic Sacrifice of the Nauvoo Exodus (1,109 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
Remembering the Impact of British Missionary Isaac Russell (1,108 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
Return to the Joseph Smith Family Farm (1,076 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
The Restoration of the Priesthoods (1,055 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
"Every Man Walketh in His Own Way": Individualism, Revelation, and Authority in the Ohio Period (1,032 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Ohio and Upper Canada
Quincy, Illinois: A Temporary Refuge (1,027 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
God and the People Reconsidered: Further Reflections on Theodemocracy in Early Mormonism (1,001 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
"We the People of the Kingdom of God": Constitution Writing in the Council of Fifty (979 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Wilford Woodruff Chronology (956 views)
from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
Oliver Cowdery's Legal Practice in Tiffin, Ohio (869 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Discoveries from the Joseph Smith Papers Project: The Early Manuscripts (868 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
The Explanation-Defying Book of Abraham (829 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Remembering the First Vision (826 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History

Gospel Topic: Church History 1820–1844

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