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"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation": Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife (16,584 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
Joseph Smith (14,547 views)
from Latter-day Prophets and the United States Constitution
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Crisis, 1837 (13,483 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: A Faithful, Egyptological Point of View (12,729 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Temple, 1836 (12,650 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 (10,973 views)
Joseph Smith and the Historicity of the Book of Mormon (10,684 views)
from Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures
Firsthand Witness Accounts of the Translation Process (10,545 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 (9,842 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 (9,313 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
A Multiplicity of Witnesses: Women and the Translation Process (8,341 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Joseph Smith and "The Vision," 1832 (7,640 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Restoration of All Things: What the Doctrine and Covenants Says (7,547 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Joseph Smith Goes to Washington, 1839-40 (7,502 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Authorship and History of the Lectures on Faith (7,462 views)
from The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective
The Prophet's Final Charge to the Twelve, 1844 (7,170 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Hefted and Handled: Tangible Interactions with Book of Mormon Objects (7,100 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Joseph Smith in Northern Missouri, 1838 (7,011 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith, John C. Bennett, and the Extradition Attempt, 1842 (6,898 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Oliver Cowdery as Second Witness of Priesthood Restoration (6,881 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
The Saints' Forced Exodus from Missouri, 1839 (6,658 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Martin Harris’s 1828 Visit to Luther Bradish, Charles Anthon, and Samuel Mitchill (6,613 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 (6,546 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Elizabeth Ann Whitmer Cowdery: A Historical Reflection of Her Life (6,164 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation (5,323 views)
The Conversion of Oliver Cowdery (5,004 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Photo Essay of Church History Sites in Liverpool and the Ribble Valley (4,909 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
Oliver Cowdery in the Doctrine and Covenants (4,686 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Oliver Cowdery as Book of Mormon Scribe (4,677 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
The Brigham Young Journals: Volume 1: April 1832–February 1846 (4,667 views)
A Seeker’s Guide to the Historical Accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision (4,443 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2011
Joseph Smith and Abraham Lincoln (4,225 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Zion's Camp (4,209 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 (4,097 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
The Saints Flee from Ohio to Missouri (3,995 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
“For Their Salvation Is Necessary and Essential to Our Salvation”: Joseph Smith and the Practice of Baptism and Confirmation for the Dead (3,961 views)
from An Eye of Faith: Essays in Honor Richard O. Cowan
A Method for Evaluating Latter-day Saint History (3,689 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 21 No. 3 · 2020
Expulsion from Zion, 1833 (3,652 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
"The Laws of the Church of Christ" (D&C 42): A Textual and Historical Analysis (3,625 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
Medical Terms Used by Saints in Nauvoo and Winter Quarters, 1839–48 (3,478 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 3 · 2009
Conquest of the Heart: Implementing the Law of Consecration in Missouri and Ohio (3,221 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 3 No. 2 · 2002
Joseph Smith and the Redemption of Zion, 1834 (3,070 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Doctrines, Covenants, and Sweet Consolation, 1843 (2,984 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Understanding Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible (2,680 views)
"Something Better" for the Sisters: Joseph Smith and the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo (2,637 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
The Nauvoo Temple, 1841 (2,635 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
"Taught from on High": The Ministry of Angelic Messengers to the Prophet Joseph Smith (2,604 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Joseph Smith’s Negotiations to Publish the Book of Mormon (2,595 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Reconciling Joseph Smith—History 1:10 and 1:18–19 (2,463 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 14 No. 2 · 2013
Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee (2,455 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 18 No. 1 · 2017
Scenes and Incidents in Nauvoo (2,425 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Oliver's Joseph (2,402 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Restorations: Scholars in Dialogue from Community of Christ and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (2,279 views)
Israel Barlow and the Founding of Nauvoo (2,277 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 1 · 2009
Joseph Smith as a Visionary: Heavenly Manifestations in the Latter Days (2,169 views)
Discussing Difficult Topics: Plural Marriage (2,151 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 17 No. 1 · 2016
Fayette: The Place the Church was Organized (2,141 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
The Peter Whitmer Log Home: Cradle of Mormonism (2,129 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 3 · 2011
The Fall of Kirtland: The Doctrine and Covenants’ Role in Reaffirming Joseph (1,961 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2007
Thoughts on Reclaiming the History of Relief Society (1,813 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 15 No. 3 · 2014
Zion’s Camp: A Study in Obedience, Then and Now (1,788 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Dan Jones and the Wales Mission (1,764 views)
from The Saints Abroad: Missionaries Who Answered Brigham Young’s 1852 Call to the Nations of the World
Wilford Woodruff: Missionary in Herefordshire (1,739 views)
from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
Zion’s Camp: A Study in Obedience, Then and Now (1,719 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
“The Poorest of the Poor and the Sickest of the Sick”: The Luman Andros Shurtliff Poor Camp Rescue (1,580 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
“A Revelation I Give unto You”: The Revelation of Jesus Christ to Emma Hale Smith (1,579 views)
from How and What You Worship: Christology and Praxis in the Revelations of Joseph Smith
Wilford Woodruff’s Mission to the Three Counties (1,553 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
Race, the Priesthood, and Temples (1,505 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Thomas Bullock: "The Lord's Clerk" (1,504 views)
from Salt Lake City: The Place Which God Prepared
The Council of Fifty and Joseph Smith's Presidential Ambitions (1,479 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Absence of “Joseph Smith” in the Book of Mormon: Lack of the Name Letter Effect in Nephite, Lamanite, and Jaredite Names (1,463 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 17 No. 2 · 2016
Joseph Smith's Practice of Plural Marriage (1,451 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Before 8 August 1839 (1) (1,356 views)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
"The Lord Told Me to Go and I Went": Wilford Woodruff's Missions to the Fox Islands, 1837-38 (1,351 views)
from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
“They Pursue Me without Cause”: Joseph Smith in Hiding and D&C 127, 128 (1,334 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 16 No. 1 · 2015
7 April 1844 (2) (Sunday Afternoon). Grove 1/4 mile east of Temple (1,334 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 (1,326 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 (1,267 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The Pacific Isles
Raising Money in Righteousness: Oliver Cowdery as Banker (1,235 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
George A. Smith's Mission with the Twelve in England, 1839–41 (1,224 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
Joseph Smith and the First Principles of the Gospel: 1820-29 (1,218 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
From Kirtland, Ohio, to Far West, Missouri: Following the Trail of the Mormon Mummies (1,172 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 2 No. 1 · 2001
2 July 1839 (Tuesday) (1,142 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 (1,096 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
The Harvest of Converts (1,094 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
The Joseph Smith Revelations and the Crisis of Early American Spirituality (1,094 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
The Economic Sacrifice of the Nauvoo Exodus (1,072 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
Return to the Joseph Smith Family Farm (1,058 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
A Flood of Revelations, 1831 (1,036 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Remembering the Impact of British Missionary Isaac Russell (1,036 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
The Restoration of the Priesthoods (1,035 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 (969 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Ohio and Upper Canada
Quincy, Illinois: A Temporary Refuge (963 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 (956 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 (955 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Wilford Woodruff Chronology (907 views)
from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
Oliver Cowdery's Legal Practice in Tiffin, Ohio (829 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Discoveries from the Joseph Smith Papers Project: The Early Manuscripts (826 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
Remembering the First Vision (823 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
The Explanation-Defying Book of Abraham (810 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History

Gospel Topic: Church History 1820–1844

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