LDS historian who 'forever changed our understanding of Joseph Smith' dies

The Joseph Smith Papers project has been called the "lunar mission" of Mormon historical research. The Latter-day Saint ...
Yahoo

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 ...

Church historian Dean Jessee — the ‘founding father’ of ‘The Joseph Smith Papers’ project — dies at age 96

Latter-day Saint historian Dean Jessee was a ‘humble, dedicated disciple of Christ,’ his longtime colleague Ronald Esplin ...
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 Salt Lake Tribune

Read the Joseph Smith revelations that few Latter-day Saints know 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 scraped ...