The Restoration and Joseph Smith
Latter-Day Saint Reference Library

The Joseph Smith Papers
The authoritative source for the writings, teachings, and records of Joseph Smith
Articles
Joseph (Smith) in Egypt: Babel, Hieroglyphs, and the Pure Language of Eden
Church History, vol 78, no. 1 (March 2009), 26-56
By:
Samuel Brown
Ordering Antinomy: An Analysis of Early Mormonism’s Priestly Offices, Councils, and Kinship
Religion and American Culture, vol. 26, no. 2 (2016), 139-83
By:
Kathleen Flake
Books
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Joseph Smith, Rough Stone Rolling: A Cultural Biography of Mormonism’s Founder
By:
Richard Lyman Bushman
The Pearl of Greatest Price: Mormonism’s Most Controversial Scripture
By:
Terryl Givens with Brian M. Hauglid
In Heaven As It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
By:
Samuel M. Brown
The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
By:
Andrew F. Ehat and Lyndon W. Cook
Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
By:
Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill
Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Settings for Joseph Smith’s Ohio Revelations
By:
Mark Lyman Staker