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"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation": Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife (23,399 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
Joseph Smith (20,733 views)
from Latter-day Prophets and the United States Constitution
Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible: The Joseph Smith Translation and the King James Translation in Parallel Columns (20,246 views)
Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: A Faithful, Egyptological Point of View (17,116 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Crisis, 1837 (17,000 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Temple, 1836 (16,156 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith and the Historicity of the Book of Mormon (15,289 views)
from Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures
Firsthand Witness Accounts of the Translation Process (13,664 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 (12,290 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
The Restoration of All Things: What the Doctrine and Covenants Says (11,339 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Joseph Smith and "The Vision," 1832 (11,320 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Probation of a Teenage Seer: Joseph Smith’s Early Experiences with Moroni (10,900 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Joseph Smith, John C. Bennett, and the Extradition Attempt, 1842 (10,560 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Authorship and History of the Lectures on Faith (9,958 views)
from The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective
Joseph Smith Goes to Washington, 1839-40 (9,706 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
A Multiplicity of Witnesses: Women and the Translation Process (9,336 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Joseph Smith in Northern Missouri, 1838 (9,074 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Saints' Forced Exodus from Missouri, 1839 (8,877 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Oliver Cowdery as Second Witness of Priesthood Restoration (8,631 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Hefted and Handled: Tangible Interactions with Book of Mormon Objects (8,619 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 (8,589 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible, 1830 (8,330 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Zion's Camp (8,114 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Martin Harris’s 1828 Visit to Luther Bradish, Charles Anthon, and Samuel Mitchill (7,930 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation (7,630 views)
Elizabeth Ann Whitmer Cowdery: A Historical Reflection of Her Life (7,286 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
"The Laws of the Church of Christ" (D&C 42): A Textual and Historical Analysis (6,375 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
Photo Essay of Church History Sites in Liverpool and the Ribble Valley (6,362 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
“For Their Salvation Is Necessary and Essential to Our Salvation”: Joseph Smith and the Practice of Baptism and Confirmation for the Dead (6,354 views)
from An Eye of Faith: Essays in Honor Richard O. Cowan
The Brigham Young Journals: Volume 1: April 1832–February 1846 (6,090 views)
The Saints Flee from Ohio to Missouri (5,980 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Expulsion from Zion, 1833 (5,795 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Conversion of Oliver Cowdery (5,750 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Oliver Cowdery in the Doctrine and Covenants (5,384 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Suspicion or Trust: Reading the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision (5,383 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
Joseph Smith and Abraham Lincoln (5,371 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Oliver Cowdery as Book of Mormon Scribe (5,348 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
A Seeker’s Guide to the Historical Accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision (5,140 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2011
Joseph Smith's Practice of Plural Marriage (4,789 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
A Method for Evaluating Latter-day Saint History (4,761 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 21 No. 3 · 2020
Conquest of the Heart: Implementing the Law of Consecration in Missouri and Ohio (4,733 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 3 No. 2 · 2002
Joseph Smith and the Redemption of Zion, 1834 (4,405 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Doctrines, Covenants, and Sweet Consolation, 1843 (4,333 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Medical Terms Used by Saints in Nauvoo and Winter Quarters, 1839–48 (4,113 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 3 · 2009
Zion’s Camp: A Study in Obedience, Then and Now (3,960 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
The Nauvoo Temple, 1841 (3,732 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith as a Visionary: Heavenly Manifestations in the Latter Days (3,708 views)
"Something Better" for the Sisters: Joseph Smith and the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo (3,612 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Scenes and Incidents in Nauvoo (3,438 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Israel Barlow and the Founding of Nauvoo (3,326 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 1 · 2009
Understanding Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible (3,300 views)
The Fall of Kirtland: The Doctrine and Covenants’ Role in Reaffirming Joseph (3,176 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2007
Joseph Smith’s Negotiations to Publish the Book of Mormon (3,123 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee (3,109 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 18 No. 1 · 2017
"Taught from on High": The Ministry of Angelic Messengers to the Prophet Joseph Smith (3,105 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Oliver's Joseph (3,035 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Dan Jones and the Wales Mission (3,026 views)
from The Saints Abroad: Missionaries Who Answered Brigham Young’s 1852 Call to the Nations of the World
Reconciling Joseph Smith—History 1:10 and 1:18–19 (2,976 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 14 No. 2 · 2013
Fayette: The Place the Church was Organized (2,859 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Restorations: Scholars in Dialogue from Community of Christ and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (2,753 views)
Discussing Difficult Topics: Plural Marriage (2,687 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 17 No. 1 · 2016
The Peter Whitmer Log Home: Cradle of Mormonism (2,666 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 3 · 2011
Thoughts on Reclaiming the History of Relief Society (2,664 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 15 No. 3 · 2014
Zion’s Camp: A Study in Obedience, Then and Now (2,512 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Poet Biographies (2,445 views)
from Psalms of Nauvoo: Early Mormon Poetry
Raising Money in Righteousness: Oliver Cowdery as Banker (2,315 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
“A Revelation I Give unto You”: The Revelation of Jesus Christ to Emma Hale Smith (2,260 views)
from How and What You Worship: Christology and Praxis in the Revelations of Joseph Smith
Wilford Woodruff: Missionary in Herefordshire (2,252 views)
from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
7 April 1844 (2) (Sunday Afternoon). Grove 1/4 mile east of Temple (2,245 views)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
Race, the Priesthood, and Temples (2,225 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Wilford Woodruff’s Mission to the Three Counties (2,217 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 (2,216 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
Thomas Bullock: "The Lord's Clerk" (2,184 views)
from Salt Lake City: The Place Which God Prepared
Before 8 August 1839 (1) (2,159 views)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
The Council of Fifty and Joseph Smith's Presidential Ambitions (2,133 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
“They Pursue Me without Cause”: Joseph Smith in Hiding and D&C 127, 128 (2,016 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 16 No. 1 · 2015
George A. Smith's Mission with the Twelve in England, 1839–41 (1,936 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
Absence of “Joseph Smith” in the Book of Mormon: Lack of the Name Letter Effect in Nephite, Lamanite, and Jaredite Names (1,925 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 17 No. 2 · 2016
Latter-day Saints in Tubuai, French Polynesia, Yesterday and Today (1,915 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The Pacific Isles
The Early Reception of the Book of Mormon in Nineteenth-Century America (1,870 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
"The Lord Told Me to Go and I Went": Wilford Woodruff's Missions to the Fox Islands, 1837-38 (1,814 views)
from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
The Joseph Smith Revelations and the Crisis of Early American Spirituality (1,781 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
A Flood of Revelations, 1831 (1,775 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
From Kirtland, Ohio, to Far West, Missouri: Following the Trail of the Mormon Mummies (1,708 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 2 No. 1 · 2001
Quincy, Illinois: A Temporary Refuge (1,662 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
The Economic Sacrifice of the Nauvoo Exodus (1,613 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
Remembering the Impact of British Missionary Isaac Russell (1,603 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
"We the People of the Kingdom of God": Constitution Writing in the Council of Fifty (1,576 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
The Harvest of Converts (1,548 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
Scenes in Nauvoo after the Martyrdom of the Prophet and Patriarch (1,545 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
The Kinderhook Plates (1,536 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
The Restoration of the Priesthoods (1,507 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
2 July 1839 (Tuesday) (1,496 views)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
God and the People Reconsidered: Further Reflections on Theodemocracy in Early Mormonism (1,483 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Joseph Smith and the First Principles of the Gospel: 1820-29 (1,479 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Explanation-Defying Book of Abraham (1,448 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Wilford Woodruff Chronology (1,378 views)
from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
"Every Man Walketh in His Own Way": Individualism, Revelation, and Authority in the Ohio Period (1,316 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Ohio and Upper Canada
Return to the Joseph Smith Family Farm (1,272 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
The Testimonies of the Book of Mormon Witnesses (1,205 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History

Gospel Topic: Church History 1820–1844

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