A daguerreotype, right, discovered in a locket is believed by some to be Joseph Smith, the first president and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Here it is compared to an ...

While living in Turnbridge, Vermont, Lucy recalled, she became “acquainted with a young man by the name of Joseph Smith, to whom I was subsequently married” in 1796. The couple’s first son ...

Denver Snuffer, one of today’s most prominent polygamy deniers and the leader of the Remnant movement, has argued that Brigham Young pressured these women to say they were married to Smith to ...

The faith’s second prophet-president, Brigham Young, eventually departed from the ways of founder Joseph Smith and instituted a ban barring Black Latter-day Saints from priesthood ordinations ...

A family heirloom at least 170 years old could contain the very first image of Joseph Smith, Jr. , founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Françoise Mouly and Genevieve Bormes interview the cartoonist Noah Van Sciver, whose new book, “Joseph Smith and the Mormons,” is a graphic-novel biography of the American prophet. An excerpt ...

(RNS) — In 2000 and 2001, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints focused its worldwide curriculum on the teachings of Joseph F. Smith (1838 – 1918), a nephew of the founding prophet ...