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"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation": Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife (19,833 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
Joseph Smith (17,603 views)
from Latter-day Prophets and the United States Constitution
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Crisis, 1837 (16,058 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 (15,456 views)
Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: A Faithful, Egyptological Point of View (15,094 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Temple, 1836 (15,020 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith and the Historicity of the Book of Mormon (13,031 views)
from Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures
Firsthand Witness Accounts of the Translation Process (12,529 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 (10,715 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
Joseph Smith and "The Vision," 1832 (10,636 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Probation of a Teenage Seer: Joseph Smith’s Early Experiences with Moroni (10,481 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
The Restoration of All Things: What the Doctrine and Covenants Says (9,891 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Joseph Smith Goes to Washington, 1839-40 (8,997 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
A Multiplicity of Witnesses: Women and the Translation Process (8,908 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Authorship and History of the Lectures on Faith (8,873 views)
from The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective
Joseph Smith in Northern Missouri, 1838 (8,424 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Saints' Forced Exodus from Missouri, 1839 (8,284 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Prophet's Final Charge to the Twelve, 1844 (8,157 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Hefted and Handled: Tangible Interactions with Book of Mormon Objects (7,974 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Oliver Cowdery as Second Witness of Priesthood Restoration (7,778 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Joseph Smith, John C. Bennett, and the Extradition Attempt, 1842 (7,697 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible, 1830 (7,589 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Zion's Camp (7,522 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 (7,352 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Elizabeth Ann Whitmer Cowdery: A Historical Reflection of Her Life (6,915 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation (6,829 views)
"The Laws of the Church of Christ" (D&C 42): A Textual and Historical Analysis (6,028 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
“For Their Salvation Is Necessary and Essential to Our Salvation”: Joseph Smith and the Practice of Baptism and Confirmation for the Dead (5,776 views)
from An Eye of Faith: Essays in Honor Richard O. Cowan
Photo Essay of Church History Sites in Liverpool and the Ribble Valley (5,672 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
The Saints Flee from Ohio to Missouri (5,564 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
The Brigham Young Journals: Volume 1: April 1832–February 1846 (5,512 views)
The Conversion of Oliver Cowdery (5,399 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Expulsion from Zion, 1833 (5,332 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Oliver Cowdery in the Doctrine and Covenants (5,086 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Oliver Cowdery as Book of Mormon Scribe (5,014 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Suspicion or Trust: Reading the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision (4,913 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
Joseph Smith and Abraham Lincoln (4,851 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
A Seeker’s Guide to the Historical Accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision (4,821 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2011
Conquest of the Heart: Implementing the Law of Consecration in Missouri and Ohio (4,485 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 3 No. 2 · 2002
A Method for Evaluating Latter-day Saint History (4,385 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 21 No. 3 · 2020
Joseph Smith and the Redemption of Zion, 1834 (4,100 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Doctrines, Covenants, and Sweet Consolation, 1843 (3,981 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Medical Terms Used by Saints in Nauvoo and Winter Quarters, 1839–48 (3,841 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 3 · 2009
Zion’s Camp: A Study in Obedience, Then and Now (3,721 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
The Nauvoo Temple, 1841 (3,478 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
"Something Better" for the Sisters: Joseph Smith and the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo (3,236 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Scenes and Incidents in Nauvoo (3,108 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Understanding Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible (2,976 views)
The Fall of Kirtland: The Doctrine and Covenants’ Role in Reaffirming Joseph (2,953 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2007
Joseph Smith as a Visionary: Heavenly Manifestations in the Latter Days (2,952 views)
Israel Barlow and the Founding of Nauvoo (2,945 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 1 · 2009
Joseph Smith’s Negotiations to Publish the Book of Mormon (2,898 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 (2,854 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee (2,853 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 18 No. 1 · 2017
Oliver's Joseph (2,818 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Reconciling Joseph Smith—History 1:10 and 1:18–19 (2,746 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 14 No. 2 · 2013
Fayette: The Place the Church was Organized (2,555 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 (2,542 views)
Discussing Difficult Topics: Plural Marriage (2,539 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 17 No. 1 · 2016
Dan Jones and the Wales Mission (2,442 views)
from The Saints Abroad: Missionaries Who Answered Brigham Young’s 1852 Call to the Nations of the World
The Peter Whitmer Log Home: Cradle of Mormonism (2,394 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 3 · 2011
Zion’s Camp: A Study in Obedience, Then and Now (2,350 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Thoughts on Reclaiming the History of Relief Society (2,317 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 15 No. 3 · 2014
Joseph Smith's Practice of Plural Marriage (2,159 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Wilford Woodruff: Missionary in Herefordshire (1,968 views)
from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
“A Revelation I Give unto You”: The Revelation of Jesus Christ to Emma Hale Smith (1,961 views)
from How and What You Worship: Christology and Praxis in the Revelations of Joseph Smith
Wilford Woodruff’s Mission to the Three Counties (1,917 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
The Council of Fifty and Joseph Smith's Presidential Ambitions (1,886 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Before 8 August 1839 (1) (1,831 views)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
“The Poorest of the Poor and the Sickest of the Sick”: The Luman Andros Shurtliff Poor Camp Rescue (1,828 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
Raising Money in Righteousness: Oliver Cowdery as Banker (1,823 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
“They Pursue Me without Cause”: Joseph Smith in Hiding and D&C 127, 128 (1,822 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 16 No. 1 · 2015
Thomas Bullock: "The Lord's Clerk" (1,815 views)
from Salt Lake City: The Place Which God Prepared
7 April 1844 (2) (Sunday Afternoon). Grove 1/4 mile east of Temple (1,738 views)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
Race, the Priesthood, and Temples (1,735 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 (1,712 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 17 No. 2 · 2016
George A. Smith's Mission with the Twelve in England, 1839–41 (1,689 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
The Early Reception of the Book of Mormon in Nineteenth-Century America (1,644 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Latter-day Saints in Tubuai, French Polynesia, Yesterday and Today (1,628 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The Pacific Isles
"The Lord Told Me to Go and I Went": Wilford Woodruff's Missions to the Fox Islands, 1837-38 (1,578 views)
from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
A Flood of Revelations, 1831 (1,519 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
From Kirtland, Ohio, to Far West, Missouri: Following the Trail of the Mormon Mummies (1,488 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 2 No. 1 · 2001
The Joseph Smith Revelations and the Crisis of Early American Spirituality (1,484 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
Quincy, Illinois: A Temporary Refuge (1,413 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Remembering the Impact of British Missionary Isaac Russell (1,409 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
Scenes in Nauvoo after the Martyrdom of the Prophet and Patriarch (1,392 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
The Economic Sacrifice of the Nauvoo Exodus (1,371 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
2 July 1839 (Tuesday) (1,356 views)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
Joseph Smith and the First Principles of the Gospel: 1820-29 (1,352 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Harvest of Converts (1,320 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
The Restoration of the Priesthoods (1,212 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
"We the People of the Kingdom of God": Constitution Writing in the Council of Fifty (1,193 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Wilford Woodruff Chronology (1,191 views)
from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
God and the People Reconsidered: Further Reflections on Theodemocracy in Early Mormonism (1,185 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Return to the Joseph Smith Family Farm (1,157 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
"Every Man Walketh in His Own Way": Individualism, Revelation, and Authority in the Ohio Period (1,147 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Ohio and Upper Canada
Discoveries from the Joseph Smith Papers Project: The Early Manuscripts (1,017 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
The Explanation-Defying Book of Abraham (1,015 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Oliver Cowdery's Legal Practice in Tiffin, Ohio (979 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
The Church in Britain before 1840 (979 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England

Gospel Topic: Church History 1820–1844

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