when Phillips questioned church lawyer David Jordan on conflicting accounts about the Book of Mormon being translated by ...

This violence claimed many lives, including Mormon prophet Joseph Smith's, and eventually led to the Mormons seeking refuge outside the boundaries of the United States. Other opposition stemmed ...

Soon afterward, a vision instructs Smith to move the nascent Mormon community west to Kirtland. Other missionaries proceed to Missouri and settle in Independence. February: Joseph and Emma Smith ...

3 The resulting manuscript, the Book of Mormon, was published in March 1830. On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith organized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became its first president.

Mountain Meadows. Courtesy: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Although Joseph Smith was no pacifist—he preached an aggressive self-defense against the Mormon Church's many ...

Just before the large congregation attending the final session of the semi-annual conference of the Mormons was dismissed this afternoon. President Joseph F. Smith, the head of the church ...

The Senate Committee on Elections, which is investigating the protests against Senator Smoot to-day confronted President Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon Church with the question whether the Mormons ...

Anti-Mormon sentiment spread, inflamed particularly by reports of polygamy. By then, the practice of plural marriage had expanded beyond Joseph Smith's inner circle, and word of it had been passed ...

Soon afterward, a vision instructs Smith to move the nascent Mormon community west to Kirtland. Other missionaries proceed to Missouri and settle in Independence. February: Joseph and Emma Smith ...