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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • “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
  • 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
  • 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
  • “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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Angels in the Age of Railways
    from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
  • 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 Church in Britain before 1840
    from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
  • Making a Case for Church History
    from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
  • Wilford Woodruff’s Mission to the Three Counties
    from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
  • 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
  • Israel Barlow and the Founding of Nauvoo
    from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 1 · 2009
  • Race, the Priesthood, and Temples
    from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
  • Saints: Internalizing the Restoration
    from Review Magazine Winter 2019
  • Poet Biographies
    from Psalms of Nauvoo: Early Mormon Poetry
  • From Kirtland, Ohio, to Far West, Missouri: Following the Trail of the Mormon Mummies
    from Religious Educator Vol. 2 No. 1 · 2001
  • Joseph Smith
    from Latter-day Prophets and the United States Constitution
  • A Seeker’s Guide to the Historical Accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision
    from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2011
  • 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
  • Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: A Faithful, Egyptological Point of View
    from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
  • Latter-day Saints in Tubuai, French Polynesia, Yesterday and Today
    from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The Pacific Isles
  • The Peter Whitmer Log Home: Cradle of Mormonism
    from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 3 · 2011
  • First Vision–Based Christology and Praxis for Anxious Teens
    from How and What You Worship: Christology and Praxis in the Revelations of Joseph Smith
  • Injustices Leading to the Creation of the Council of Fifty
    from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
  • Conquest of the Heart: Implementing the Law of Consecration in Missouri and Ohio
    from Religious Educator Vol. 3 No. 2 · 2002
  • 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
  • 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
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