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These historians spent years studying the prophet Joseph Smith’s life. Here’s what they learned about him

For Latter-day Saints across the globe, Thursday marks the 180th anniversary of a tragedy — on June 27, 1844, an armed mob stormed into Carthage Jail and took the lives of the prophet Joseph Smith and ...
KUTV

Inside the Story: Is this the most accurate depiction of LDS prophet Joseph Smith?

(KUTV) For more than 150 years, artists have tried to portray what the founder of the Mormon church, Joseph Smith, really looked like. One Latter-day Saint artist believes he may have found the answer ...
KSL

Was your ancestor really a bodyguard for the Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith?

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KSL

Does an image of Joseph Smith exist? What one descendant found in a forgotten family heirloom

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The Salt Lake Tribune

‘Mormon Land’: Was Joseph Smith a prophet or a scoundrel? New biography shows bits of both.

In 2012, scholar John Turner published an award-winning biography of Brigham Young, a mountain of a man in Western Americana. But there remained a bigger fish to pursue, namely Joseph Smith, the ...
The Christian Post on MSN

Is Joseph Smith a prophet like the Apostle Paul?

Even if you’re not a Christian, I doubt I need to introduce you to the Apostle Paul, the guy who wrote most of the New ...
The Digital Universe

Final volume of Joseph Smith Papers to release on day of the Prophet’s martyrdom

The project team for the Joseph Smith Papers is set to release the final volume of the papers on June 27, the 179th anniversary of the Prophet’s martyrdom. The Joseph Smith Papers project is a ...
PBS

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 Joseph ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Joseph Smith, the Founder and Prophet of Mormonism, Was Born Into an Impoverished and Itinerant Family in Vermont

A granite obelisk rises 38.5 feet above the dark green woods of Sharon, a small town on the White River in Vermont. Each foot represents a year in the life of Joseph Smith Jr., the progenitor, prophet ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

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 looked ...
America Magazine

St. Joseph is a prophet in the Byzantine tradition. What can we learn from their devotion?

Photo by Andrzej Skonieczny on Unsplash. On Dec. 8, 2020, Pope Francis announced that the new year would be dedicated to St. Joseph. Along with his apostolic letter, “Patris Corde,” he also encouraged ...