Tag Archives: Hyrum Smith
The Assassinations of Joseph Smith Jr. and Hyrum Smith
June 27th marks the anniversary of the 1844 assassinations of Joseph Smith Jr., the Mormon founding prophet, and his brother Hyrum Smith at the Carthage Jail in Hancock County, Illinois. It is usually a day of remembrance for those claiming … Continue reading
Wednesday’s Book Review: “Mapping Mormonism: An Atlas of Latter-day Saint History”
Mapping Mormonism: An Atlas of Latter-day Saint History. Brandon S. Plewe, Editor-in-Chief. Associate Editors: S. Kent Brown, Donald Q. Cannon, and Richard H. Jackson. Provo, Utah: BYU Press, 2012. Foreword by Richard Lyman Bushman. Introduction, glossary, notes, color illustrations, bibliography, … Continue reading
Nauvoo and the Myth of Mormonism’s Persecuted Innocence
No aspect of the early Mormon experience has been less critically explored than the bristling and sometimes violent relations of the Mormons to those living nearby. At virtually every turn in the 1830s and 1840s the Latter-day Saints under the … Continue reading
The Arrests of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
Since I published my account of the assassinations of Joseph and Hyrum Smith on the anniversary date, June 27, 1844, located here, and my account of the Nauvoo Expositor affair that prompted the incarceration of Joseph Smith, the founding prophet … Continue reading
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