The answer to the latter question is often South Park. Joseph Smith translates the Book of Mormon using a hat in a 2003 “South Park” episode. Yes, Trey Parker beat everyone to the punch.

“South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey ... who wants to start a religion. LDS Church founder Joseph Smith is among the religious icons included — “the super friends,” as the show ...

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 the days and weeks after the reported discovery of the first known photograph of Joseph Smith, a debate erupted ... Historian Benjamin Park, an associate professor at Sam Houston State ...

They see their work as a kind of corrective for historians who have leaned too far into Joseph Smith ... Benjamin Park reports that it wasn’t until 1833 that one of Smith’s secretaries ...

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been obsessed with Joseph Smith’s appearance since ... Benjamin E. Park (@BenjaminEPark), an associate professor of history ...