Yet figures like Joseph Smith fascinate me as an anthropologist, and I suppose as an American, too. When I read Fawn Brodie's wonderful book, No Man Knows My History , I couldn't put it down.

Excerpted from "American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church". In the last eighteen months of his life, Joseph Smith introduced the Mormon faithful to the Old ...

Joseph Smith 1805-1844 Born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Vermont, to Joseph and Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith Jr. grew up on a series of tenant farms in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) John Turner, holds a copy of his book, “Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet,” photographed in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, June 3, 2025.

But I couldn’t find it as I wiped away tears of laughter during the show-stopping “Joseph Smith American Moses” number Tuesday night at the current touring production’s stop at the Hobby ...

Joseph Smith Arrested June 24-25, 1844 Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith leave for Carthage. They are met by Captain Dunn and a militia of 60, four miles west of Carthage.