Product Description: Even the Prophet's most vehement critics - then and now - can at least agree on one thing: Joseph Smith was murdered in cold blood. This account begins in October 1838; Joseph is thirty-two years old and has less than six years to live...read more

Product Description: Besides the account of the First Vision as told in Joseph Smith - History, Joseph Smith himself wrote or dictated at least three other accounts of the event. Matthew Christensen compiles Joseph's accounts with those from his contemporaries into one narrative...read more

Product Description: What could Abraham Lincoln and controversial Mormon founder Joseph Smith possibly have in common? According to Lincoln Leadership Society president Ron Andersen, more than you would think. Using historical records from Illinois, where Smith and Lincoln were living in the 1840s, this book shows you new sides to the men, including their surprisingly similar views on God and their involvement with each others' politics...read more

The years from 1852 to 1890 marked a controversial period in Mormonism, when the church's official embrace of polygamy put it at odds with wider American culture. In this study, Christine Talbot explores the controversial era, discussing how plural marriage generated decades of cultural and political conflict over competing definitions of legitimate marriage, family structure, and American identity. In particular, Talbot examines "the Mormon question" with attention to how it constructed ideas about American citizenship around the presumed separation of the public and private spheres. Contrary to the prevailing notion of man as political actor, woman as domestic keeper, and religious conscience as entirely private, Mormons enfranchised women and framed religious practice as a political act. The way Mormonism undermined the public/private divide led white, middle-class Americans to respond by attacking not just Mormon sexual and marital norms but also Mormons' very fitness as American citizens. Poised at the intersection of the history of the American West, Mormonism, and nineteenth-century culture and politics, this carefully researched exploration considers the ways in which Mormons and anti-Mormons both questioned and constructed ideas of the national body politic, citizenship, gender, the family, and American culture at large.

Product Description: In Binding Earth and Heaven, Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd use early nineteenth-century Mormonism as a case study to examine questions about how new religious movements may, as rare exceptions, survive and even eventually become successful in spite of intense opposition...read more

Product Description: In Binding Earth and Heaven, Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd use early nineteenth-century Mormonism as a case study to examine questions about how new religious movements may, as rare exceptions, survive and even eventually become successful in spite of intense opposition...read more

Product Description: Add extra interest and depth to your study of the Doctrine & Covenants with these little-known stories and facts from Church history. With one story for each section, you'll soon discover the details history has tucked away. Fascinating and informative, this book is perfect for sharing with friends and family and guaranteed to spice up your scripture study...read more

Product Description: Today's scholars of Joseph Smith's First Vision stand on the shoulders of giants. This volume reproduces some of the seminal articles written by the giants who have studied it for half a century. It is a monument to their contributions...read more

Product Description: Think you know everything about Mormon history? Then prove it! This book is stuffed with multiple-choice questions about the fascinating facts and figures in Mormon history, so you'll be able to stump even the most scholarly Church historian in your family...read more

Product Description:  The LDS hierarchy was divided in 1837 over the militarization of the church in Missouri. Many in the leadership eventually reconciled, but one of the twelve apostles, William E. McLellin, became what might be termed a friendly critic...read more

Product Description: For a brief, shining moment in time the Savior walked the earth, taught His gospel, performed miracles, and instructed His disciples. But after His crucifixion and the deaths of His apostles, false doctrines arose — on both the eastern hemisphere and the western hemisphere — until the Covenant of Abraham was taken and a great apostasy filled the whole earth...read more

Product Description: When Moses visited Joseph Smith in the Kirtland Temple and gave him the keys to gather Israel, and when a later revelation from the Lord identified the location of the city of Zion, men, women, and children joyfully left Ohio to gather in their promised land — western Missouri...read more

Product Description: In the early 1800s, God called a latter-day prophet, established His Church, and restored the sign of the Covenant of Abraham. The Times of the Gentiles were thus fulfilled, but a tempest raged in the hearts of men. The spirit of persecution followed the Prophet Joseph Smith wherever he went...read more

Here is an open, honest, and refreshing history of the foundational years of the Latter-day Saint restoration movement including Joseph Smith's fourteen-year ministry. Read from the records of the day.

Product Description: This is a detailed report of historic archaeology carried out at the New York log cabin home of the Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith, Jr. The author provides historical context for the Smith family and describes the material remains recovered, including dishes, various tools, pipes, buttons, and food scrap...read more

Product Description: Volume 6, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, ed. Maureen Ursenbach BeecherMormon culture has produced during its history an unusual number of historically valuable personal writings. Few such diaries, journals, and memoirs published have provided as rich and well rounded a window into their authors' lives and worlds as the diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney...read more

Product Description: Women's Voices: An Untold History of the Latter-Day-Saints 1830-1900

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Natural disasters are happening around the world at an unusual rate as the forces of dark and light collide, and two special children, who hold the world's fate in their hands, defend themselves against a witch. Reprint. PW. K.

Product Description:  When a Mormon missionary stopped by the Taylor home in 1836, Leonora was more interested than was John. However, John was the one who finally decided to move from Toronto to church headquarters in Ohio, and it was John’s commitment that survived their temple worship experience there, when it was disrupted by several pistol- and bowie-knife-wielding apostles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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