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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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 ...

(RNS) — The polarized response to the photo reveals less about Joseph Smith than it does about us. (RNS) — On July 21, Mormons were rocked by news that a great-great-grandson of Joseph Smith ...

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So I should perhaps have done a bit more digging when, a few years ago, one of them asked me whether historians had discovered that church founder Joseph Smith was not a polygamist. I knew 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 ...