The martyrdom of both Joseph and Hyrum Smith led to the Saints trekking further westward to live their faith. From the fateful day where Smith saw God the Father and Jesus Christ in a grove of ...

The book appears certain to go down as the most significant and up-to-date biography of the Mormon founder since Richard ...

The recent discovery of a daguerreotype purported to be the only known photo of Joseph Smith opened up a conversation about what the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...

And we found it first on Emma J. Smith, who is Joseph III’s oldest daughter, Joseph and Emma’s oldest grandchild. … We found it earlier on Joseph III’s wife, Bertha Madison Smith.

Until the late 1990s, however, many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had no idea that church founder Joseph Smith had taken dozens of women as his plural wives.

In 2014, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published an official essay detailing Joseph Smith’s marriages to multiple women. After decades of insisting otherwise, the Community of ...

Each foot represents a year in the life of Joseph Smith Jr., the progenitor, prophet and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who was born on that humble spot on December ...

It was church founder Joseph Smith. A fringe candidate for the White House, Smith was gunned down 180 years ago by a mob — with his brother Hyrum — on June 27, 1844, at a jail in Carthage ...