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 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 ...

In 2012, scholar John Turner published an award-winning biography of Brigham Young, a mountain of a man in Western Americana.

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.

Joseph Smith, top left, and some of his wives, later in life, clockwise from top middle: Emma Hale Smith; Eliza R. Snow; ...

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story ...

Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr. grew up on a series of tenant farms in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York. Though in his youth ...

Inspired by the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, Joseph Smith founded the most widely-practiced religion founded in the United States, the Mormon faith. Kevin O'Leary on EU willing ...

A prophecy of war, God’s first name, fierce chastisements and the blessings of polygamy — these are the contents of the more than 40 uncanonized revelations of Joseph Smith that two historians ...

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 ...