Portal:Mormonism

Joseph Smith described a vision where God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to him in a grove of trees. This event, and the belief that all men and women can learn of and know God through revelation, are fundamental tenets of Mormonism.

LDS Standard Works (Scriptures)

• The King James Version of the Bible
• The Book of Mormon
• The Pearl of Great Price
• The Doctrine and Covenants

Early LDS Theological Publications

• The Book of Commandments (1833), predecessor of The Doctrine and Covenants
• Patriarchal Blessings by Joseph Smith Sr Dated 1834-1840
• The Seer, 1853 - ? by Orson Pratt
• Journal of Discourses 1854- 1886
• A Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions and of the Late Discovery of Ancient American Records, 1840 by Orson Pratt
• Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate
• Lectures on Faith

Historical and Analytical

• Missouri Executive Order 44 by Lillburn W. Boggs (1838) The extermination order.
• The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints. With memoirs of the life and death of Joseph Smith, the "American Mahomet", 1851 by Charles Mackay
• The Mormon country : a summer with the "Latter-Day Saints.", 1874 by John Codman
• A Young Folks' History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1889 by Nephi Anderson
• Latter Day Saints; who are they?, 1902 by T. W. Williams
• The Story of Mormonism, 1914 by James E. Talmage
• History of the Church
• History of the Life of Joseph Smith (1832)
• Reed Peck manuscript
• J. M. Grant's RIGDON
• Oration Delivered by Mr. S. Rigdon on the 4th of July at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri
• Slavery, Blacks, and the Priesthood
• An Address to All Believers in Christ by David Whitmer
• History of Utah, 1540-1886 by Hubert Howe Bancroft
• The Theory of Evolution as an Aid to Faith and God and Belief in the Resurrection (1911) by William Henry Chamberlin
• Mormonism: a lecture delivered before the Mercantile Library Association of Charleston, S. C. (1853) by Benjamin M. Palmer

The Exodus

• “Mormons” from Buechler, August F., Robert J. Barr, and Dale P. Stough, eds. History of Hall County, Nebraska: A Narrative of the Past. Lincoln, Nebraska: Western Publishing & Engraving Co., 1920. Pages 63-64.
• "The Mormon Camp" in Littell's Living Age, 10

Reference works

• A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon by George Reynolds

Encyclopedia articles

• "Mormons," by Robert Carter in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Mormons," by John Fraser in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 16) (1883)
• "Spaulding, Solomon," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Mormons," by I. Woodbridge Riley in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Mormons," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Nauvoo," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Mormons," by W. R. Harris in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Mormons," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Mormons," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Mormons," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

Magazine articles

• Historical Magazine (second series)/Volume 7/May 1870/Interview with the Father of Joseph Smith
• Tiffany's Monthly/Volume 5/Number 4/Mormonism--No. II
• "Mormonism from a Mormon Point of View" in Popular Science Monthly, 10 (December 1876)
• “What Can Be Done with the Mormons?” in The United States Democratic Review, v. 43, no. 2 (October 1859)

Newspaper articles

• Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate, Volume 2, Number 1, Letter VIII
• Testimony against Chauncey L. Higbee (May 9, 1844)
• Nauvoo Expositor, v. 1, no. 1 (June 7, 1844)

Interviews

• Edmund L. Kelley interview with Lorenzo Saunders (1884)
• Peter Bauder interview with Joseph Smith October 1830
• Joseph Smith Jr. Interview with David Nye White (29 August 1843)
• Interview with the Father of Joseph Smith as it appeared in the Historical Magazine (May 1870)

Correspondence

• The Wentworth Letter (1842)
• The Rupp Letter (1844)
• Letter from Jesse Smith to Hyrum Smith (17 June 1829)
• Letter from Joseph Smith to Sidney Rigdon (27 March 1843)
• Letter from Joseph Smith to Thomas Ford (1 January 1844)
• Letter from Joseph Smith to Thomas Ford (14 June 1844)
• Letter from Joseph Smith to the Whitneys (18 August 1842)
• Letter from Lucius Fenn to Birdseye Bronson (12 February 1830)
• Letters by Oliver Cowdery to W.W. Phelps on the Rise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Diaries and Biographies

• Diary of Joseph Smith, Jr. (1832-1834)
• Diary of Joseph Smith, Jr. (1835-1836)
• Biography and family record of Lorenzo Snow

LDS Authors

LDS Presidents

1. Joseph Smith, Jr.
2. Brigham Young
3. John Taylor
4. Wilford Woodruff
5. Lorenzo Snow
6. Joseph F. Smith

Other

• Ezra T. Benson
• Ralph Vary Chamberlin
• William Henry Chamberlin
• Jedediah M. Grant
• George A. Smith
• Orson Hyde
• Amasa Lyman
• Orson Pratt
• Parley P. Pratt
• Charles C. Rich
• Franklin D. Richards
• Sidney Rigdon
• Eliza Roxcy Snow
• Erastus Snow
• Daniel H. Wells
• David Whitmer

Criticism of Mormonism

• Mormonism Exposed (1902) by Golman Buford Hancock

See also

• Portal:Christianity
• Portal:Utah