John G. Turner’s new book is a nimble account that showcases the frenzied core of Smith’s soul.

The picture of Smith and the early LDS movement that emerges, said LDS historians, is more nuanced, more contextualized and more layered than either believers or skeptics have recognized.

These Joseph Smith revelations were never canonized. A new book seeks to bring attention to them for Latter-day Saints and other readers.

A daguerreotype, right, discovered in a locket is believed by some to be Joseph Smith, the first president and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Here it is compared to an ...

The papers provide a first-ever look at Joseph Smith's seer stone. The church says it's the very stone Smith, the founder of the LDS church, used to interpret the words that led to the Book of Mormon.

The 2003 "South Park" depiction of the Book of Mormon's translation process turns out to be more accurate than sanitized LDS images of Joseph Smith poring over the golden plates. What will be the ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unveiled the second volume of "The Joseph Smith Papers" project Tuesday. The new book is receiving reaction not just ...

Françoise Mouly and Genevieve Bormes interview the cartoonist Noah Van Sciver, whose new book, “Joseph Smith and the Mormons,” is a graphic-novel biography of the American prophet. An excerpt ...

(KUTV) For more than 150 years, artists have tried to portray what the founder of the Mormon church, Joseph Smith, really looked like.One Latter-day Saint artist believes he may have found the ...

The history of Joseph Smith, the 19th-century prophet and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

News that the LDS Church has now publicly acknowledged founder Joseph Smith’s polygamous marriage to more than thirty women—one as young as fourteen years old—puts me in mind of a conversation I had ...

‘Mormon Land’: What a cartoonist learned about Joseph Smith and his own childhood faith In his new graphic novel, “Joseph Smith and the Mormons,” Noah Van Sciver set out to tell the church ...