Gospel Topic: Church History 1820–1844 | Religious Studies Center

Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Crisis, 1837
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation": Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
Absence of “Joseph Smith” in the Book of Mormon: Lack of the Name Letter Effect in Nephite, Lamanite, and Jaredite Names
from Religious Educator Vol. 17 No. 2 · 2016
A Flood of Revelations, 1831
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Testimonies of the Book of Mormon Witnesses
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Remembering the First Vision
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Joseph Smith's Practice of Plural Marriage
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
The Early Reception of the Book of Mormon in Nineteenth-Century America
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Joseph Smith and Money Digging
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Return to the Joseph Smith Family Farm
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
The Restoration of the Priesthoods
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
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Ohio and Upper Canada
The Fall of Kirtland: The Doctrine and Covenants’ Role in Reaffirming Joseph
from Religious Educator Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2007
“Exalt Not Yourselves”: The Revelations and Thomas B. Marsh, An Object Lesson For Our Day
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
A Prophet-Statesman: Joseph Smith in the Public Square
from Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One
The Council of Fifty and Joseph Smith's Presidential Ambitions
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
“Bound Together in the Cords of Everlasting Love”: Forging Bonds between Leader and Follower
from Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One
The Restoration of All Things: What the Doctrine and Covenants Says
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
God and the People Reconsidered: Further Reflections on Theodemocracy in Early Mormonism
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
The Saints Flee from Ohio to Missouri
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Joseph Smith’s Negotiations to Publish the Book of Mormon
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
"We the People of the Kingdom of God": Constitution Writing in the Council of Fifty
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
“For Their Salvation Is Necessary and Essential to Our Salvation”: Joseph Smith and the Practice of Baptism and Confirmation for the Dead
from An Eye of Faith: Essays in Honor Richard O. Cowan
Scenes in Nauvoo, and Incidents from H. C. Kimball’s Journal
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
The Conversion of Oliver Cowdery
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Joseph Smith and the First Principles of the Gospel: 1820-29
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Oliver Cowdery as Editor, Defender, and Justice of the Peace in Kirtland
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Timeline of United States and Latter-day Saint/Utah Territory History
from Civil War Saints
The Economic Sacrifice of the Nauvoo Exodus
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
The Kinderhook Plates
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Raising Money in Righteousness: Oliver Cowdery as Banker
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Dan Jones and the Wales Mission
from The Saints Abroad: Missionaries Who Answered Brigham Young’s 1852 Call to the Nations of the World
A People Prepared
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
Waves of Crisis
from Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith: Nineteenth-Century Restorationists
Discoveries from the Joseph Smith Papers Project: The Early Manuscripts
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
Suspicion or Trust: Reading the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
Oliver Cowdery as Second Witness of Priesthood Restoration
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Missionaries and Converts in Illinois 1831–34
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Expulsion from Zion, 1833
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Probation of a Teenage Seer: Joseph Smith’s Early Experiences with Moroni
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Joseph Smith and "The Vision," 1832
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Harvest of Converts
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
The Council of Fifty and the Perils of Democratic Governance
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
"The Lord Told Me to Go and I Went": Wilford Woodruff's Missions to the Fox Islands, 1837-38
from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
“They Pursue Me without Cause”: Joseph Smith in Hiding and D&C 127, 128
from Religious Educator Vol. 16 No. 1 · 2015
"Something Better" for the Sisters: Joseph Smith and the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Quincy, Illinois: A Temporary Refuge
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Joseph Smith and Abraham Lincoln
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Zion's Camp
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Joseph Smith in Northern Missouri, 1838
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Introduction
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Authorship and History of the Lectures on Faith
from The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective
A Method for Evaluating Latter-day Saint History
from Religious Educator Vol. 21 No. 3 · 2020
Zion’s Camp: A Study in Obedience, Then and Now
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee
from Religious Educator Vol. 18 No. 1 · 2017
Elizabeth Ann Whitmer Cowdery: A Historical Reflection of Her Life
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Oliver Cowdery in the Doctrine and Covenants
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
7 April 1844 (2) (Sunday Afternoon). Grove 1/4 mile east of Temple
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
The Nauvoo Temple, 1841
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Firsthand Witness Accounts of the Translation Process
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Scenes in Nauvoo after the Martyrdom of the Prophet and Patriarch
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
The Explanation-Defying Book of Abraham
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
George A. Smith's Mission with the Twelve in England, 1839–41
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
2 July 1839 (Tuesday)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
Angels in the Age of Railways
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
“A Revelation I Give unto You”: The Revelation of Jesus Christ to Emma Hale Smith
from How and What You Worship: Christology and Praxis in the Revelations of Joseph Smith
Doctrines, Covenants, and Sweet Consolation, 1843
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Saints' Forced Exodus from Missouri, 1839
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Medical Terms Used by Saints in Nauvoo and Winter Quarters, 1839–48
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 3 · 2009
A Multiplicity of Witnesses: Women and the Translation Process
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
“The Poorest of the Poor and the Sickest of the Sick”: The Luman Andros Shurtliff Poor Camp Rescue
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
The Church in Britain before 1840
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
Joseph Smith and the Redemption of Zion, 1834
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Before 8 August 1839 (1)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
Making a Case for Church History
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible, 1830
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith Goes to Washington, 1839-40
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Review of Documents, Volume 4: April 1834–September 1835
from Religious Educator Vol. 18 No. 1 · 2017
The Joseph Smith Revelations and the Crisis of Early American Spirituality
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
Missionaries and Converts in Illinois 1835–38
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Timeline
from The Tabernacle: "An Old and Wonderful Friend"
Wilford Woodruff’s Mission to the Three Counties
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
Joseph Smith and the Historicity of the Book of Mormon
from Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures
The Last Chapter of Scenes in Nauvoo
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Reconciling Joseph Smith—History 1:10 and 1:18–19
from Religious Educator Vol. 14 No. 2 · 2013
Scenes in Nauvoo
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
"The Laws of the Church of Christ" (D&C 42): A Textual and Historical Analysis
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
Christology and Theosis in the Revelations and Teachings of Joseph Smith
from How and What You Worship: Christology and Praxis in the Revelations of Joseph Smith
Saints: Internalizing the Restoration
from Review Magazine Winter 2019
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Temple, 1836
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Oliver's Joseph
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Poet Biographies
from Psalms of Nauvoo: Early Mormon Poetry
Joseph Smith
from Latter-day Prophets and the United States Constitution
From Kirtland, Ohio, to Far West, Missouri: Following the Trail of the Mormon Mummies
from Religious Educator Vol. 2 No. 1 · 2001
Fayette: The Place the Church was Organized
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
A Seeker’s Guide to the Historical Accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2011
Fayette: The Place the Church was Organized
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Latter-day Saints in Tubuai, French Polynesia, Yesterday and Today
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The Pacific Isles
Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: A Faithful, Egyptological Point of View
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues