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Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation (7,622 views)
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Crisis, 1837 (16,995 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation": Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife (23,362 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
A Flood of Revelations, 1831 (1,772 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 (1,924 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 17 No. 2 · 2016
The Testimonies of the Book of Mormon Witnesses (1,200 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Remembering the First Vision (1,046 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Joseph Smith's Practice of Plural Marriage (4,776 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
The Early Reception of the Book of Mormon in Nineteenth-Century America (1,869 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Return to the Joseph Smith Family Farm (1,272 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
Joseph Smith and Money Digging (1,154 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
The Restoration of the Priesthoods (1,506 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 (6,350 views)
from An Eye of Faith: Essays in Honor Richard O. Cowan
The Restoration of All Things: What the Doctrine and Covenants Says (11,336 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
The Conversion of Oliver Cowdery (5,749 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Joseph Smith and the First Principles of the Gospel: 1820-29 (1,477 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Scenes in Nauvoo, and Incidents from H. C. Kimball’s Journal (1,084 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 (3,122 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 (702 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Raising Money in Righteousness: Oliver Cowdery as Banker (2,314 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Waves of Crisis (252 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 (1,314 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 (3,176 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2007
“Exalt Not Yourselves”: The Revelations and Thomas B. Marsh, An Object Lesson For Our Day (872 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
“Bound Together in the Cords of Everlasting Love”: Forging Bonds between Leader and Follower (951 views)
from Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One
The Saints Flee from Ohio to Missouri (5,978 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
The Economic Sacrifice of the Nauvoo Exodus (1,613 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
A People Prepared (417 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
A Prophet-Statesman: Joseph Smith in the Public Square (1,012 views)
from Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One
The Kinderhook Plates (1,528 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
The Council of Fifty and Joseph Smith's Presidential Ambitions (2,129 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 (1,477 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 (1,574 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Timeline of United States and Latter-day Saint/Utah Territory History (1,204 views)
from Civil War Saints
Dan Jones and the Wales Mission (3,026 views)
from The Saints Abroad: Missionaries Who Answered Brigham Young’s 1852 Call to the Nations of the World
Quincy, Illinois: A Temporary Refuge (1,662 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 (1,813 views)
from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
Expulsion from Zion, 1833 (5,795 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith and "The Vision," 1832 (11,315 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Discoveries from the Joseph Smith Papers Project: The Early Manuscripts (1,198 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
The Probation of a Teenage Seer: Joseph Smith’s Early Experiences with Moroni (10,900 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Oliver Cowdery as Second Witness of Priesthood Restoration (8,625 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Missionaries and Converts in Illinois 1831–34 (991 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
The Harvest of Converts (1,547 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
The Council of Fifty and the Perils of Democratic Governance (797 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Joseph Smith and Abraham Lincoln (5,367 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Suspicion or Trust: Reading the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision (5,380 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 (2,015 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 16 No. 1 · 2015
"Something Better" for the Sisters: Joseph Smith and the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo (3,612 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Zion's Camp (8,114 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Zion’s Camp: A Study in Obedience, Then and Now (2,512 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Oliver Cowdery in the Doctrine and Covenants (5,383 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Doctrines, Covenants, and Sweet Consolation, 1843 (4,331 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Saints' Forced Exodus from Missouri, 1839 (8,876 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith in Northern Missouri, 1838 (9,071 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
George A. Smith's Mission with the Twelve in England, 1839–41 (1,936 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
Authorship and History of the Lectures on Faith (9,956 views)
from The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective
Angels in the Age of Railways (882 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee (3,108 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 18 No. 1 · 2017
7 April 1844 (2) (Sunday Afternoon). Grove 1/4 mile east of Temple (2,240 views)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
The Explanation-Defying Book of Abraham (1,448 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Introduction (514 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
A Method for Evaluating Latter-day Saint History (4,757 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 21 No. 3 · 2020
Firsthand Witness Accounts of the Translation Process (13,648 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 (2,253 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 (4,111 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 3 · 2009
The Nauvoo Temple, 1841 (3,731 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Elizabeth Ann Whitmer Cowdery: A Historical Reflection of Her Life (7,281 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Scenes in Nauvoo after the Martyrdom of the Prophet and Patriarch (1,544 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
2 July 1839 (Tuesday) (1,494 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 (888 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Joseph Smith and the Redemption of Zion, 1834 (4,400 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible, 1830 (8,328 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Joseph Smith Revelations and the Crisis of Early American Spirituality (1,779 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
Before 8 August 1839 (1) (2,159 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 (9,335 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
The Church in Britain before 1840 (1,156 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
Making a Case for Church History (325 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
Review of Documents, Volume 4: April 1834–September 1835 (260 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 (2,215 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
Joseph Smith Goes to Washington, 1839-40 (9,706 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
"The Laws of the Church of Christ" (D&C 42): A Textual and Historical Analysis (6,373 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
Joseph Smith and the Historicity of the Book of Mormon (15,275 views)
from Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures
The Last Chapter of Scenes in Nauvoo (275 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Scenes in Nauvoo (695 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Wilford Woodruff’s Mission to the Three Counties (2,215 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
Reconciling Joseph Smith—History 1:10 and 1:18–19 (2,976 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 14 No. 2 · 2013
Timeline (329 views)
from The Tabernacle: "An Old and Wonderful Friend"
Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: A Faithful, Egyptological Point of View (17,101 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
The Prophet's Final Charge to the Twelve, 1844 (8,587 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Temple, 1836 (16,142 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Peter Whitmer Log Home: Cradle of Mormonism (2,666 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 3 · 2011
Israel Barlow and the Founding of Nauvoo (3,326 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 1 · 2009
A Seeker’s Guide to the Historical Accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision (5,138 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2011
Saints: Internalizing the Restoration (241 views)
from Review Magazine Winter 2019
Race, the Priesthood, and Temples (2,223 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Latter-day Saints in Tubuai, French Polynesia, Yesterday and Today (1,913 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The Pacific Isles
Joseph Smith (20,722 views)
from Latter-day Prophets and the United States Constitution
Martin Harris’s 1828 Visit to Luther Bradish, Charles Anthon, and Samuel Mitchill (7,926 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 (486 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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