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Prophets and Apostles of the Last Dispensation (4,753 views)
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Crisis, 1837 (12,196 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation": Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife (15,263 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
A Flood of Revelations, 1831 (862 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 (1,280 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 17 No. 2 · 2016
The Testimonies of the Book of Mormon Witnesses (279 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Personal Journal Entries in Chronological Order: 21 May 1836 - 12 October 1840 (34 views)
from The Brigham Young Journals: Volume 1: April 1832–February 1846
Remembering the First Vision (761 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Joseph Smith's Practice of Plural Marriage (1,331 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
The Early Reception of the Book of Mormon in Nineteenth-Century America (1,114 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Return to the Joseph Smith Family Farm (853 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
Joseph Smith and Money Digging (578 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
The Restoration of the Priesthoods (943 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 (3,320 views)
from An Eye of Faith: Essays in Honor Richard O. Cowan
The Restoration of All Things: What the Doctrine and Covenants Says (6,187 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
The Conversion of Oliver Cowdery (3,927 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Joseph Smith and the First Principles of the Gospel: 1820-29 (1,035 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Scenes in Nauvoo, and Incidents from H. C. Kimball’s Journal (592 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 (2,007 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 (400 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Raising Money in Righteousness: Oliver Cowdery as Banker (1,010 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Waves of Crisis (154 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 (475 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 (1,695 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 8 No. 1 · 2007
“Exalt Not Yourselves”: The Revelations and Thomas B. Marsh, An Object Lesson For Our Day (565 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
“Bound Together in the Cords of Everlasting Love”: Forging Bonds between Leader and Follower (481 views)
from Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One
The Saints Flee from Ohio to Missouri (3,672 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
The Economic Sacrifice of the Nauvoo Exodus (953 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
A People Prepared (216 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
A Prophet-Statesman: Joseph Smith in the Public Square (590 views)
from Joseph & Hyrum, Leading as One
The Kinderhook Plates (660 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
The Council of Fifty and Joseph Smith's Presidential Ambitions (1,282 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 (876 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 (878 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Timeline of United States and Latter-day Saint/Utah Territory History (566 views)
from Civil War Saints
Dan Jones and the Wales Mission (1,481 views)
from The Saints Abroad: Missionaries Who Answered Brigham Young’s 1852 Call to the Nations of the World
Quincy, Illinois: A Temporary Refuge (864 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 (1,292 views)
from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
Expulsion from Zion, 1833 (3,010 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith and "The Vision," 1832 (6,959 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Discoveries from the Joseph Smith Papers Project: The Early Manuscripts (676 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
The Probation of a Teenage Seer: Joseph Smith’s Early Experiences with Moroni (7,271 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
Oliver Cowdery as Second Witness of Priesthood Restoration (4,601 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Missionaries and Converts in Illinois 1831–34 (575 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
The Harvest of Converts (924 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
The Council of Fifty and the Perils of Democratic Governance (435 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
Joseph Smith and Abraham Lincoln (3,864 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Suspicion or Trust: Reading the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision (3,476 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 (1,212 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 16 No. 1 · 2015
"Something Better" for the Sisters: Joseph Smith and the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo (2,017 views)
from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
Zion's Camp (3,806 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Zion’s Camp: A Study in Obedience, Then and Now (1,620 views)
from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
Oliver Cowdery in the Doctrine and Covenants (3,419 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Doctrines, Covenants, and Sweet Consolation, 1843 (2,488 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Saints' Forced Exodus from Missouri, 1839 (6,141 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith in Northern Missouri, 1838 (6,134 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
George A. Smith's Mission with the Twelve in England, 1839–41 (1,078 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The British Isles
Authorship and History of the Lectures on Faith (6,362 views)
from The Lectures on Faith in Historical Perspective
Angels in the Age of Railways (556 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee (2,303 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 18 No. 1 · 2017
7 April 1844 (2) (Sunday Afternoon). Grove 1/4 mile east of Temple (1,148 views)
from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
The Explanation-Defying Book of Abraham (767 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Introduction (334 views)
from The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History
A Method for Evaluating Latter-day Saint History (3,006 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 21 No. 3 · 2020
Firsthand Witness Accounts of the Translation Process (8,022 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 (798 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 (3,279 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 3 · 2009
The Nauvoo Temple, 1841 (2,278 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Elizabeth Ann Whitmer Cowdery: A Historical Reflection of Her Life (4,205 views)
from Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery
Scenes in Nauvoo after the Martyrdom of the Prophet and Patriarch (1,035 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
2 July 1839 (Tuesday) (1,022 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 (502 views)
from Mormon Thoroughfare: A History of the Church in Illinois, 1830–1839
Joseph Smith and the Redemption of Zion, 1834 (2,709 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith's New Translation of the Bible, 1830 (5,858 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Joseph Smith Revelations and the Crisis of Early American Spirituality (953 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
Before 8 August 1839 (1) (1,131 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 (6,954 views)
from The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
The Church in Britain before 1840 (623 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
Making a Case for Church History (130 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
Review of Documents, Volume 4: April 1834–September 1835 (116 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 (1,487 views)
from Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail
Joseph Smith Goes to Washington, 1839-40 (6,733 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
"The Laws of the Church of Christ" (D&C 42): A Textual and Historical Analysis (2,840 views)
from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
Joseph Smith and the Historicity of the Book of Mormon (8,841 views)
from Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures
The Last Chapter of Scenes in Nauvoo (98 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Scenes in Nauvoo (308 views)
from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
Wilford Woodruff’s Mission to the Three Counties (1,388 views)
from The Field Is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
Reconciling Joseph Smith—History 1:10 and 1:18–19 (2,130 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 14 No. 2 · 2013
Timeline (160 views)
from The Tabernacle: "An Old and Wonderful Friend"
Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham: A Faithful, Egyptological Point of View (11,849 views)
from No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues
The Prophet's Final Charge to the Twelve, 1844 (6,460 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Temple, 1836 (11,153 views)
from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
The Peter Whitmer Log Home: Cradle of Mormonism (1,488 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 3 · 2011
Israel Barlow and the Founding of Nauvoo (2,033 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 10 No. 1 · 2009
A Seeker’s Guide to the Historical Accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision (3,170 views)
from Religious Educator Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2011
Saints: Internalizing the Restoration (129 views)
from Review Magazine Winter 2019
Race, the Priesthood, and Temples (1,446 views)
from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
Latter-day Saints in Tubuai, French Polynesia, Yesterday and Today (1,097 views)
from Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The Pacific Isles
Joseph Smith (12,788 views)
from Latter-day Prophets and the United States Constitution
Martin Harris’s 1828 Visit to Luther Bradish, Charles Anthon, and Samuel Mitchill (4,129 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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