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Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation (7,571 views)
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Crisis, 1837 (16,947 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation": Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife (22,990 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
A Flood of Revelations, 1831 (1,752 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 (1,897 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 17 No. 2 · 2016
The Testimonies of the Book of Mormon Witnesses (1,128 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Remembering the First Vision (1,031 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Joseph Smith's Practice of Plural Marriage (4,528 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
The Early Reception of the Book of Mormon in Nineteenth-Century America (1,856 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Return to the Joseph Smith Family Farm (1,262 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
Joseph Smith and Money Digging (1,104 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
The Restoration of the Priesthoods (1,486 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 (6,310 views)
from An Eye of Faith: Essays in Honor Richard O. Cowan
The Restoration of All Things: What the Doctrine and Covenants Says (11,247 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
The Conversion of Oliver Cowdery (5,729 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Joseph Smith and the First Principles of the Gospel: 1820-29 (1,467 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Scenes in Nauvoo, and Incidents from H. C. Kimball’s Journal (1,066 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 (3,108 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 (690 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Raising Money in Righteousness: Oliver Cowdery as Banker (2,271 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Waves of Crisis (250 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 (1,307 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 (3,169 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2007
“Exalt Not Yourselves”: The Revelations and Thomas B. Marsh, An Object Lesson For Our Day (864 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
“Bound Together in the Cords of Everlasting Love”: Forging Bonds between Leader and Follower (942 views)
from Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One
The Saints Flee from Ohio to Missouri (5,909 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
The Economic Sacrifice of the Nauvoo Exodus (1,598 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
A People Prepared (410 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
A Prophet-Statesman: Joseph Smith in the Public Square (997 views)
from Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One
The Kinderhook Plates (1,480 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
The Council of Fifty and Joseph Smith's Presidential Ambitions (2,113 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 (1,455 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 (1,557 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Timeline of United States and Latter-day Saint/Utah Territory History (1,180 views)
from Civil War Saints
Dan Jones and the Wales Mission (2,976 views)
from The Saints Abroad: Missionaries Who Answered Brigham Young’s 1852 Call to the Nations of the World
Quincy, Illinois: A Temporary Refuge (1,640 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 (1,795 views)
from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
Expulsion from Zion, 1833 (5,737 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith and "The Vision," 1832 (11,232 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Discoveries from the Joseph Smith Papers Project: The Early Manuscripts (1,179 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
The Probation of a Teenage Seer: Joseph Smith’s Early Experiences with Moroni (10,868 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Oliver Cowdery as Second Witness of Priesthood Restoration (8,591 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Missionaries and Converts in Illinois 1831–34 (980 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
The Harvest of Converts (1,534 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
The Council of Fifty and the Perils of Democratic Governance (785 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Joseph Smith and Abraham Lincoln (5,333 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Suspicion or Trust: Reading the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision (5,356 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 (2,009 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 16 No. 1 · 2015
"Something Better" for the Sisters: Joseph Smith and the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo (3,591 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Zion's Camp (8,068 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Zion’s Camp: A Study in Obedience, Then and Now (2,502 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Oliver Cowdery in the Doctrine and Covenants (5,354 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Doctrines, Covenants, and Sweet Consolation, 1843 (4,305 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Saints' Forced Exodus from Missouri, 1839 (8,830 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith in Northern Missouri, 1838 (9,033 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
George A. Smith's Mission with the Twelve in England, 1839–41 (1,914 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
Authorship and History of the Lectures on Faith (9,839 views)
from The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective
Angels in the Age of Railways (875 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee (3,087 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 18 No. 1 · 2017
7 April 1844 (2) (Sunday Afternoon). Grove 1/4 mile east of Temple (2,216 views)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
The Explanation-Defying Book of Abraham (1,412 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Introduction (510 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
A Method for Evaluating Latter-day Saint History (4,725 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 21 No. 3 · 2020
Firsthand Witness Accounts of the Translation Process (13,526 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 (2,214 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 (4,091 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 3 · 2009
The Nauvoo Temple, 1841 (3,713 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Elizabeth Ann Whitmer Cowdery: A Historical Reflection of Her Life (7,237 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Scenes in Nauvoo after the Martyrdom of the Prophet and Patriarch (1,526 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
2 July 1839 (Tuesday) (1,487 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 (876 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Joseph Smith and the Redemption of Zion, 1834 (4,376 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible, 1830 (8,169 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Joseph Smith Revelations and the Crisis of Early American Spirituality (1,758 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
Before 8 August 1839 (1) (2,130 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 (9,284 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
The Church in Britain before 1840 (1,144 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
Making a Case for Church History (317 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
Review of Documents, Volume 4: April 1834–September 1835 (252 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 (2,169 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
Joseph Smith Goes to Washington, 1839-40 (9,650 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
"The Laws of the Church of Christ" (D&C 42): A Textual and Historical Analysis (6,356 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
Joseph Smith and the Historicity of the Book of Mormon (15,111 views)
from Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures
The Last Chapter of Scenes in Nauvoo (270 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Scenes in Nauvoo (669 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Wilford Woodruff’s Mission to the Three Counties (2,200 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
Reconciling Joseph Smith—History 1:10 and 1:18–19 (2,957 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 14 No. 2 · 2013
Timeline (325 views)
from The Tabernacle: "An Old and Wonderful Friend"
Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: A Faithful, Egyptological Point of View (16,887 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
The Prophet's Final Charge to the Twelve, 1844 (8,551 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Temple, 1836 (16,021 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Peter Whitmer Log Home: Cradle of Mormonism (2,635 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 3 · 2011
Israel Barlow and the Founding of Nauvoo (3,284 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 1 · 2009
A Seeker’s Guide to the Historical Accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision (5,111 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2011
Saints: Internalizing the Restoration (237 views)
from Review Magazine Winter 2019
Race, the Priesthood, and Temples (2,172 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Latter-day Saints in Tubuai, French Polynesia, Yesterday and Today (1,890 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The Pacific Isles
Joseph Smith (20,577 views)
from Latter-day Prophets and the United States Constitution
Martin Harris’s 1828 Visit to Luther Bradish, Charles Anthon, and Samuel Mitchill (7,871 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
First Vision–Based Christology and Praxis for Anxious Teens (483 views)
from How and What You Worship: Christology and Praxis in the Revelations of Joseph Smith

Gospel Topic: Church History 1820–1844

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