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These historians spent years studying the prophet Joseph Smith’s life. Here’s what they learned about him
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 ...
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Joseph Smith on film: Six actors who played the prophet — and how they did
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 ...
‘Mormon Land’: Was Joseph Smith a prophet or a scoundrel? New biography shows bits of both.
The book appears certain to go down as the most significant and up-to-date biography of the Mormon founder since Richard ...
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Does an image of Joseph Smith exist? What one descendant found in a forgotten family heirloom
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Read the Joseph Smith revelations that few Latter-day Saints know about
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 ...
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Joseph Smith: American Prophet
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 ...
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Joseph Smith
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 ...