‘Mormon Land’: Early LDS garments were modeled after what Joseph Smith said angels — and even Jesus — wore

We discuss the history and evolution of Latter-day Saint garments — from the days of church founder Joseph Smith to the new ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

LDS historian who ‘forever changed our understanding of Joseph Smith’ dies

A meticulous Latter-day Saint archivist and historian, whose work on Joseph Smith laid the groundwork for most modern scholarship on the church prophet, has died. Dean Jessee died in his Murray home ...
Religion Dispatches

Revealing Joseph Smith’s (Well-Known) Polygamy Doesn’t Address the LDS Church’s Bigger Problem

News that the LDS Church has now publicly acknowledged founder Joseph Smith’s polygamous marriage to more than thirty women—one as young as fourteen years old—puts me in mind of a conversation I had ...