On Feb. 4, 1846, a year and a half after the deaths of Joseph Smith and Hyrum Smith, the first families left Nauvoo, Illinois ...

The Netflix miniseries is a false depiction that draws on negative stereotypes, writes Matt Grow, managing director of Church History Department for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Joseph Smith named him and Thomas Marsh as temporary ... He would become involved in the community of Nauvoo, Illinois in the early 1840s. Young endorsed Smith's presidential campaign in 1844 ...

The origins of the first September 11 atrocity stem from the murder of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, who was assassinated in Illinois on ... soldiers, the Nauvoo Legion, who had ...

Director Peter Berg, executive producer Eric Newman, Indigenous Consultant Julia O’Keefe, stars Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, Irene Bedard, Kim Coates, Derek Hinkey and more discuss the show's approach ...

One month after launching a new website titled Historic Nauvoo, Illinois, and Carthage Jail ... ever get to walk in the Sacred Grove or go into the Joseph Smith boyhood home,” he said. “Translating ...

settled in Utah following conflicts with other communities in Missouri and Illinois, which led to the death of founder Joseph Smith Jr. But 10 years after Young and his followers had arrived in ...

Photo credit: David Wilson Nestled along the Illinois River ... the Mississippi River was once home to Mormon leader Joseph Smith, and boy, does it have stories to tell! The star of the show is the ...

From the swampy banks of the Mississippi the majestic City of Joseph rose and the Saints once ... went abroad and converts flocked to Nauvoo by the thousands the enemies of the church grew ...