Visiting historic sites tethers individuals to the stories of the early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...

(RNS) — The documentary “Who Killed Joseph Smith?” is now available for streaming for free on Vimeo. It’s an earnest but deeply misleading attempt to understand the assassinations of ...

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

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 ...

On the morning of June 28, 1844, the bodies of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum, who was also killed in the jail, were taken by wagon from Carthage to Nauvoo, where more than 8,000 believers ...

CARTHAGE, Ill. — Marci and Clive Chidester couldn’t resist snapping a few photos while visiting Carthage and Nauvoo. The couple posed for a selfie with the statue of Joseph and Hyrum Smith at ...

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. Joseph says, "Do not be alarmed. . . .

Religion News Service columnist Jana Riess on the life of Joseph F. Smith, ... Orphaned at a young age —his father, Hyrum, was murdered in the Carthage Jail in 1844, ...

27th Joseph Smith Papers print book documents the last six weeks of his life. “I am very much resigned to my lot,” he wrote just before he was slain at Carthage.

Artist Casey Childs, left, and photographer Michael VaughAn direct actors during a photo shoot depicting the death of Joseph Smith at the Carthage Jail at a studio in Provo on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012.

Among them was the “pepperbox” revolver used by church founder Joseph Smith to shoot three of his killers when he was murdered at Carthage, Illinois, in 1844.