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
A Flood of Revelations, 1831
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
"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
“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
“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
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
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 Council of Fifty and the Perils of Democratic Governance
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
The Harvest of Converts
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
“They Pursue Me without Cause”: Joseph Smith in Hiding and D&C 127, 128
from Religious Educator Vol. 16 No. 1 · 2015
Joseph Smith and Abraham Lincoln
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Suspicion or Trust: Reading the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
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
Angels in the Age of Railways
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
Firsthand Witness Accounts of the Translation Process
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
The Explanation-Defying Book of Abraham
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
“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
Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee
from Religious Educator Vol. 18 No. 1 · 2017
Medical Terms Used by Saints in Nauvoo and Winter Quarters, 1839–48
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 3 · 2009
Introduction
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
A Method for Evaluating Latter-day Saint History
from Religious Educator Vol. 21 No. 3 · 2020
Making a Case for Church History
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
Review of Documents, Volume 4: April 1834–September 1835
from Religious Educator Vol. 18 No. 1 · 2017
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
Wilford Woodruff’s Mission to the Three Counties
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
Reconciling Joseph Smith—History 1:10 and 1:18–19
from Religious Educator Vol. 14 No. 2 · 2013
Timeline
from The Tabernacle: "An Old and Wonderful Friend"
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
The Peter Whitmer Log Home: Cradle of Mormonism
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 3 · 2011
Israel Barlow and the Founding of Nauvoo
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 1 · 2009
Latter-day Saints in Tubuai, French Polynesia, Yesterday and Today
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The Pacific Isles
Martin Harris’s 1828 Visit to Luther Bradish, Charles Anthon, and Samuel Mitchill
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
First Vision–Based Christology and Praxis for Anxious Teens
from How and What You Worship: Christology and Praxis in the Revelations of Joseph Smith
Race, the Priesthood, and Temples
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
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
Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: A Faithful, Egyptological Point of View
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
Uniting Faith and History
from Religious Educator Vol. 13 No. 2 · 2012
Getting to Know Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days
from Religious Educator Vol. 19 No. 2 · 2018
John C. Frémont’s 1843–44 Western Expedition and Its Influence on Mormon Settlement in Utah
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
Injustices Leading to the Creation of the Council of Fifty
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Discussing Difficult Topics: Plural Marriage
from Religious Educator Vol. 17 No. 1 · 2016
Hefted and Handled: Tangible Interactions with Book of Mormon Objects
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Thoughts on Reclaiming the History of Relief Society
from Religious Educator Vol. 15 No. 3 · 2014
Conquest of the Heart: Implementing the Law of Consecration in Missouri and Ohio
from Religious Educator Vol. 3 No. 2 · 2002
Seeking “Power to Protect the Innocent”
from Storming the Nation: The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries
Appendix: Timeline of the Church in Latin America
from An Apostolic Journey
Early Life of and Religious Influences on Joseph Smith
from Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith: Nineteenth-Century Restorationists
Individual Affidavits from the National Archives (A-L)
from Mormon Redress Petitions: Documents of the 1833–1838 Missouri Conflict