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‘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

Latter-day Saint historian gets a tough calling: Write a fresh biography of Joseph Smith

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has commissioned a new official biography of its 19th-century charismatic founder, to be titled simply: “Joseph the Prophet.” The new volume about ...
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 ...