Latter-day Saint scholar Matthew Bowman discusses LDS prophet Joseph Fielding Smith, who led fights over evolution, the age ...

3 The resulting manuscript, the Book of Mormon, was published in March 1830. On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith organized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became its first president.

Neither Joseph Smith nor the Mormon missionaries shied away from making ... Courtesy of Brigham Young University Museum of Art Just a few months after the Mormon Church was founded in 1830 ...

Courtesy: Brigham Young University Museum of Art. January 12 ... increasing anti-Mormon feeling. Joseph Smith will eventually have more than 25 wives, while Young will come to embrace the doctrine ...

For more insights on Smith’s pursuit of the White House, listen to our “Mormon Land” podcast with historian Spencer McBride, author of “Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the ...