by Larry Richman | Dec 3, 2018
The Joseph Smith Papers project (JosephSmithPapers.org) is 10 years old! This research project analyzes, documents, and publishes virtually everything ever written about Joseph Smith. The world now has greater access to original sources for Joseph Smith’s life...
by Larry Richman | Sep 19, 2023
The First Presidency of the Church has commissioned former Assistant Church Historian and Recorder Richard E. Turley Jr. to write a new biography of the Prophet Joseph Smith. The book will be called Joseph the Prophet. This announcement was made by President Dallin H....
by Larry Richman | Jan 30, 2020
The First Vision: A Joseph Smith Papers Podcast is a six-part miniseries from the Joseph Smith Papers Project that explores the history and legacy of Joseph Smith’s first vision. Series host Spencer W. McBride interviews historians and other scholars in a...
by Larry Richman | Nov 15, 2018
The latest volume of The Joseph Smith Papers project is Revelations and Translations, Volume 4: Book of Abraham and Related Manuscripts. It explains the development of the Book of Abraham, from the time Joseph Smith and others purchased Egyptian papyri in 1835 through...
by Larry Richman | Aug 26, 2016
Latter-day Saints are very familiar with Joseph Smith’s account of the First Vision as published in Joseph Smith—History in the Pearl of Great Price. But fewer members have studies the other accounts of the First Vision, which can give us a greater understanding...
by Larry Richman | Feb 20, 2015
Because of a collaborative effort between the Joseph Smith Papers Project and FamilySearch, you can log in to a website and see if your ancestors are mentioned in the Joseph Smith Papers. If you have an account on FamilySearch.org, you can see where your direct...
by Larry Richman | Sep 28, 2013
You don’t have to wait for the next volume to come out to start reviewing the Joseph Smith Papers collection at JosephSmithPapers.org. The website lets you search and view the documents in a digitized format next to the transcription, which isn’t available...
by Larry Richman | Sep 25, 2012
This afternoon, I attended a blogger event to celebrate the publication of the latest volume of The Joseph Smith Papers by the Church Historian’s Press. Joseph Smith Papers: Histories, Volume 2: Assigned Histories, 1831-1847 is the second in this two-volume series....
by Larry Richman | Jun 27, 2012
The Joseph Smith Papers Project recently released additional documents on its website, JosephSmithPapers.org, which provides free online access to many of the documents that make up The Joseph Smith Papers. Among the newly released documents is Joseph Smith’s first...
by Larry Richman | Mar 20, 2012
The Church History Department has released Histories, Volume 1: Joseph Smith Histories, 1832-1844, the latest book in the Joseph Smith Papers project. The 686-page book is now available in stores and online for $54.95. This is the sixth book of the project now...
by Larry Richman | Mar 23, 2011
Today, I attended a blogger event for the launch of The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations, Volume 2: Published Revelations. The three editors of this volume (Robin Jensen, Richard E. Turley, Jr, and Riley Lorimer) explained the book’s contents and...
by Larry Richman | Jun 30, 2009
The Joseph Smith Papers website is the official site of The Joseph Smith Papers, a comprehensive edition of extant Joseph Smith documents featuring complete and accurate transcription with both textual and contextual annotation. When completed, The Joseph Smith Papers...
by Larry Richman | Jan 27, 2022
The Church has published the first complete photographic record of what remains of the original manuscript of the Book of Mormon. Color photographs and color-coded transcriptions have been published in a new book titled The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and...
by Larry Richman | Mar 23, 2021
This article describes where you can access images online of early English editions of the Book of Mormon. Images from Early Editions Images from early editions of the Book of Mormon and the printer’s manuscript can be found on the Joseph Smith Papers website and in...
by Larry Richman | Sep 13, 2016
Minutes from the Nauvoo Council of Fifty have just been published as the latest volume in the Joseph Smith Papers project. These documents offer a candid view on how early Mormon leaders handled the temporal affairs of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
