Dean C. Jessee

research historian, Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History, Brigham Young University.

How Lovely Was the Morning | Milton V. Backman, Joseph Smith’s First Vision: The First Vision in its Historical Context

Intensive research in the area of Mormon origins in New York in recent years has resulted in a significant addition to the source material available to scholars. One who has contributed significantly to this effort…

A Prophet’s Goodly Grandparents: Joseph Smith’s New England Heritage by Richard Lloyd Anderson

Articles/Essays – Volume 07, No. 2

The Benefits of Partisanship: Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism by Richard L. Bushman

Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 4