Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The final print volume of "The Joseph Smith Papers" is pictured at the Church History Library in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, June ...

Was Joseph Smith a true prophet or a religious pretender? Vogel, who edited the five-volume series Early Mormon Documents, attempts to answer this and other questions in this somewhat tedious, ...

Joseph Fielding Smith’s family tree alone makes him a significant player in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His father, Joseph F. Smith, was the faith’s sixth president ...

The founder of the Mormon Church rocked 19th-century America with his spiritual visions, his belief in polygamy—and even a presidential run. Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder and leader of the Church of ...

Historians who have spent decades studying the life of Joseph Smith Jr. — born 220 years ago on Dec. 23, 1805 — report that the deeper one is willing to study, the more clarity arises about the kind ...