New historical resources at JSP website

Yesterday, at a news conference to which Dialogue was invited, the editors of the newly released Histories, Volume 1 teased that there would be a plethora of resources to be uploaded soon to the Joseph Smith Papers website. A day later the heavens were opened! Among the releases, find a previously unavailable copy of an early version of Joseph Smith’s 1838-1839 history that is important because, as scholar Robin Jensen explains “the text has been available, but this version has not .” Also included is what Jensen calls “the best scanned images I’ve seen online of one of the most important books (the 1833 Book of Commandments) published in Mormon history.” And find 50 1839 documents, updated reference material, the second volume of the manuscript history and various 1840 documents.
From the JSP Facebook page: “In conjunction with the publication of Histories, Volume 1, the Joseph Smith Papers Project added hundreds of pages to its website today, including early drafts of some of the histories featured in the volume. Images of Wilford Woodruff’s copy of the 1833 Book of Commandments were also added, as well as Newel K. Whitney’s 1835 Doctrine and Covenants, containing the complete series of lectures that would later be known as the Lectures on Faith.”