Adam Petty, of the Church History Department, speaks to the crowd at a commemorative service June 27 outside the Historic ...

John G. Turner’s new book is a nimble account that showcases the frenzied core of Smith’s soul.

For Latter-day Saints across the globe, Thursday marks the 180th anniversary of a tragedy \u2014 on June 27, 1844, an armed mob stormed into Carthage Jail and took the lives of the prophet Joseph ...

In 2012, scholar John Turner published an award-winning biography of Brigham Young, a mountain of a man in Western Americana. But there remained a bigger fish to pursue, namely Joseph Smith, the ...