For Latter-day Saints across the globe, Thursday marks the 180th anniversary of a tragedy \u2014 on June 27, 1844, an armed mob stormed into Carthage Jail and took the lives of the prophet Joseph ...

Smith's bid for the presidency — and his downfall and violent death shortly after that — was also detailed in Spencer McBride ...

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 ...

Joseph Fielding Smith was, scholar Matthew Bowman argues, “the most important Latter-day Saint theologian of the 20th century.”. Here are lightly edited excerpts from The Salt Lake Tribune’s ...

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 ...