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Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation (6,831 views)
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Crisis, 1837 (16,059 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation": Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife (19,858 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
A Flood of Revelations, 1831 (1,520 views)
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 (1,717 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 17 No. 2 · 2016
The Testimonies of the Book of Mormon Witnesses (415 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Personal Journal Entries in Chronological Order: 21 May 1836 - 12 October 1840 (81 views)
from The Brigham Young Journals: Volume 1: April 1832–February 1846
Remembering the First Vision (907 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Joseph Smith's Practice of Plural Marriage (2,177 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
The Early Reception of the Book of Mormon in Nineteenth-Century America (1,646 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Return to the Joseph Smith Family Farm (1,158 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
Joseph Smith and Money Digging (701 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
The Restoration of the Priesthoods (1,215 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
“For Their Salvation Is Necessary and Essential to Our Salvation”: Joseph Smith and the Practice of Baptism and Confirmation for the Dead (5,778 views)
from An Eye of Faith: Essays in Honor Richard O. Cowan
The Restoration of All Things: What the Doctrine and Covenants Says (9,901 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
The Conversion of Oliver Cowdery (5,400 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Joseph Smith and the First Principles of the Gospel: 1820-29 (1,352 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Scenes in Nauvoo, and Incidents from H. C. Kimball’s Journal (843 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Joseph Smith’s Negotiations to Publish the Book of Mormon (2,903 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Oliver Cowdery as Editor, Defender, and Justice of the Peace in Kirtland (605 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Raising Money in Righteousness: Oliver Cowdery as Banker (1,823 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Waves of Crisis (218 views)
from Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith: Nineteenth-Century Restorationists
"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
The Fall of Kirtland: The Doctrine and Covenants’ Role in Reaffirming Joseph (2,953 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2007
“Exalt Not Yourselves”: The Revelations and Thomas B. Marsh, An Object Lesson For Our Day (784 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
“Bound Together in the Cords of Everlasting Love”: Forging Bonds between Leader and Follower (813 views)
from Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One
The Saints Flee from Ohio to Missouri (5,567 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
The Economic Sacrifice of the Nauvoo Exodus (1,372 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
A People Prepared (334 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
A Prophet-Statesman: Joseph Smith in the Public Square (848 views)
from Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One
The Kinderhook Plates (889 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
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
God and the People Reconsidered: Further Reflections on Theodemocracy in Early Mormonism (1,186 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 (1,194 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Timeline of United States and Latter-day Saint/Utah Territory History (930 views)
from Civil War Saints
Dan Jones and the Wales Mission (2,443 views)
from The Saints Abroad: Missionaries Who Answered Brigham Young’s 1852 Call to the Nations of the World
Quincy, Illinois: A Temporary Refuge (1,414 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
"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
Expulsion from Zion, 1833 (5,336 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith and "The Vision," 1832 (10,641 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Discoveries from the Joseph Smith Papers Project: The Early Manuscripts (1,021 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
The Probation of a Teenage Seer: Joseph Smith’s Early Experiences with Moroni (10,491 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Oliver Cowdery as Second Witness of Priesthood Restoration (7,782 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Missionaries and Converts in Illinois 1831–34 (838 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
The Harvest of Converts (1,322 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
The Council of Fifty and the Perils of Democratic Governance (642 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Joseph Smith and Abraham Lincoln (4,858 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Suspicion or Trust: Reading the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision (4,914 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
“They Pursue Me without Cause”: Joseph Smith in Hiding and D&C 127, 128 (1,823 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 16 No. 1 · 2015
"Something Better" for the Sisters: Joseph Smith and the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo (3,240 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Zion's Camp (7,524 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Zion’s Camp: A Study in Obedience, Then and Now (2,353 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Oliver Cowdery in the Doctrine and Covenants (5,088 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Doctrines, Covenants, and Sweet Consolation, 1843 (3,981 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Saints' Forced Exodus from Missouri, 1839 (8,286 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith in Northern Missouri, 1838 (8,427 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
George A. Smith's Mission with the Twelve in England, 1839–41 (1,691 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
Authorship and History of the Lectures on Faith (8,882 views)
from The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective
Angels in the Age of Railways (767 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee (2,853 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 18 No. 1 · 2017
7 April 1844 (2) (Sunday Afternoon). Grove 1/4 mile east of Temple (1,740 views)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
The Explanation-Defying Book of Abraham (1,019 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Introduction (429 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
A Method for Evaluating Latter-day Saint History (4,389 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 21 No. 3 · 2020
Firsthand Witness Accounts of the Translation Process (12,539 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
“A Revelation I Give unto You”: The Revelation of Jesus Christ to Emma Hale Smith (1,962 views)
from How and What You Worship: Christology and Praxis in the Revelations of Joseph Smith
Medical Terms Used by Saints in Nauvoo and Winter Quarters, 1839–48 (3,841 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 3 · 2009
The Nauvoo Temple, 1841 (3,479 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Elizabeth Ann Whitmer Cowdery: A Historical Reflection of Her Life (6,919 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
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
2 July 1839 (Tuesday) (1,359 views)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
Missionaries and Converts in Illinois 1835–38 (714 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Joseph Smith and the Redemption of Zion, 1834 (4,102 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible, 1830 (7,594 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Joseph Smith Revelations and the Crisis of Early American Spirituality (1,484 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
Before 8 August 1839 (1) (1,833 views)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
A Multiplicity of Witnesses: Women and the Translation Process (8,911 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
The Church in Britain before 1840 (980 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
Making a Case for Church History (225 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
Review of Documents, Volume 4: April 1834–September 1835 (196 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 18 No. 1 · 2017
“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
Joseph Smith Goes to Washington, 1839-40 (8,997 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
"The Laws of the Church of Christ" (D&C 42): A Textual and Historical Analysis (6,030 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
Joseph Smith and the Historicity of the Book of Mormon (13,042 views)
from Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures
The Last Chapter of Scenes in Nauvoo (225 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Scenes in Nauvoo (526 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Wilford Woodruff’s Mission to the Three Counties (1,920 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
Reconciling Joseph Smith—History 1:10 and 1:18–19 (2,751 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 14 No. 2 · 2013
Timeline (267 views)
from The Tabernacle: "An Old and Wonderful Friend"
Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: A Faithful, Egyptological Point of View (15,113 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
The Prophet's Final Charge to the Twelve, 1844 (8,159 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Temple, 1836 (15,024 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Peter Whitmer Log Home: Cradle of Mormonism (2,396 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 3 · 2011
Israel Barlow and the Founding of Nauvoo (2,951 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 1 · 2009
A Seeker’s Guide to the Historical Accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision (4,825 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2011
Saints: Internalizing the Restoration (199 views)
from Review Magazine Winter 2019
Race, the Priesthood, and Temples (1,739 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Latter-day Saints in Tubuai, French Polynesia, Yesterday and Today (1,630 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The Pacific Isles
Joseph Smith (17,632 views)
from Latter-day Prophets and the United States Constitution
Martin Harris’s 1828 Visit to Luther Bradish, Charles Anthon, and Samuel Mitchill (7,357 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder

Gospel Topic: Church History 1820–1844

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