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Additionally, Inouye's writing style is engaging—a beautiful blend of critical thought, history, and personal experience. —Madilyn Abbe, Brigham Young University student\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"collapsible-content-group card no-borders border-top collapsible-xl active\" data-expand=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"card-header\" id=\"collapsible-title-2\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"card-body\" aria-labelledby=\"collapsible-title-2\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"value content font--tertiary\" id=\"collapsible-description-2\"\u003eAuthor INOUYE, MELISSA WEI-TSING\u003cbr\u003eNumber of pages 224\u003cbr\u003ePublisher Deseret Book Company\u003cbr\u003eSize 5\" x 8\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"DESERET","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52608233111818,"sku":"10012","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"saints-vol-4-sounded-in-every-ear-1955-2010-6071248","title":"Saints, Vol. 4: Sounded in Every Ear 1955-2010 - 6071248","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVolume 4 of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tells of the rapid growth of the Church and the remarkable faith of its members over the past seventy years. 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The minutes capture the principles, protocols, and activities of the Council of Fifty as it was formed and operated in Nauvoo. While many of the actions taken by the council have been known through other documents, the minutes chronicle the deliberations that led to these decisions, providing an unparalleled view of decision making at the center of what participants viewed as the nascent kingdom of God on earth. The minutes of the Council of Fifty thus shed new light on the development of Latter-day Saint beliefs and on the history of Nauvoo and the church during this critical era, while also providing new perspectives on American religious history, political culture, and western migration in the nineteenth century. REVIEWS\"Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844-January 1846, the latest addition to the monumental Joseph Smith Papers Project, opens a wide window onto a previously shrouded, but extraordinarily revealing, part of Mormon leadership and life during what were arguably the most turbulent and treacherous months of the church's history. Students of these pivotal events will be forever grateful for the insights and understanding they will find in these pages.\" —Elliott West, University of Arkansas \"The publication of the Council of Fifty minutes as the first volume of the Administrative Records series in the Joseph Smith Papers can only be described as a triumph. The new volume is sure to be celebrated for its annotation and editing, another excellent addition to the papers project. But the minutes are also a triumph of the new transparency policy of the Church History Department. Over the years, the council minutes attained almost legendary status, as a trove of dark secrets sequestered in the recesses of the First Presidency's vault. Now the minutes are to be published for all to examine.\" — Richard L. Bushman, Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University \"The Council of Fifty minutes are a treasure trove to anyone wanting to understand the last days of Joseph Smith, the martyrdom [of Joseph Smith], the last twenty months in Nauvoo, the revocation of the Nauvoo charter, the plans for exodus, and the apostates and renegades who inflicted so much damage upon the Saints. . . . They add a fabulous richness to our understanding. . . . The work of the editors places every matter of importance into excellent Mormon, American, and international historical context. . . . This is a splendid work. The importance of these Council of Fifty minutes is reflected and enshrined in the fine work of editing this band of scholars has put into them.\" —Richard E. Bennett, Professor of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University \"What I found in the Council of Fifty minutes was in fact engaging and even sometimes riveting. It was as if I had a front row seat as I watched the tragic unraveling of the Mormon community at Nauvoo. I felt the depth of council members' despair over a continued inability to find judicial, executive, or legislative justice for the wrongs they had endured, including the murder of their leaders Hyrum and Joseph Smith. I was reminded of Alexis de Tocqueville's assessment of one of the inherent weaknesses he found in American democracy, something he called the tyranny of the majority. The Council of Fifty minutes made that real to me in a way that academic histories of Mormonism have not been able to do.\" -- W. 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The volume contains revelations, correspondence, minutes of meetings in which Joseph Smith participated, and licenses provided to church officers. It documents the creation of the United Firm, the decision to print Joseph Smith’s revelations, and the first meeting of the School of the Prophets. The volume also illuminates Joseph Smith’s family life through two poignant letters from Joseph to his wife Emma.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DESERET","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52608256573706,"sku":"210000001453","price":54.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-joseph-smith-papers-documents-vol-3-february-1833-march-1834-ed-jessee-esplin-bushman-brown-pub-date-11-24-14","title":"The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents, Vol. 3","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFebruary 1833 - March 1834\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eby Dean C. 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Esplin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePerhaps no volume of the Joseph Smith Papers conveys the highs and lows of Joseph Smith's life better than Documents, Volume 5. Through letters, revelations, and meeting minutes—as well as more unusual documents such as a map, an essay on abolition, and a study of the Egyptian language—this volume brings to life the consequential and often emotionally charged months from October 1835 to January 1838. The volume opens in the hopeful season leading up to the completion of the first Latter-day Saint temple, the House of the Lord in Kirtland, Ohio. In these months Joseph Smith pronounced new revelations, spent time organizing and unifying priesthood quorums, and introduced sacred ordinances. He relished such work, once recording in his journal, \"This has been one of the best days that I ever spent.\" The pinnacle of the volume is the dedication of the Kirtland temple in spring 1836. 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Facing these difficulties, some Saints—even some of Joseph Smith's closest friends—turned agains him, declaring him a fallen prophet. Smith spent time in hiding as he faced threats against his life. Finally, in January 1838, a revelation commanded the First Presidency to leave Kirtland and seek refuge among the Missouri Saints. The months between the temple dedication and Joseph Smith's relocation to Missouri are some of the least documented in early Mormon history. The texts presented her, together with the extensive annotation accompanying them, constitute one of the best sources for researching and understanding this tumultuous period. This volume also highlights the activities and perspectives of women by including letters from Emma Smith to her husband and relying on accounts by such eyewitnesses as Eliza R. Snow, Mary Fielding, and Vilate Murray Kimball.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DESERET","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52608256606474,"sku":"210000002488","price":54.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-joseph-smith-papers-documents-vol-4-april-1834-september-1835-ed-godfrey-rensink-smith-parkin-baugh-pub-date-5-9-16","title":"The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents, Vol. 4","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eApril 1834 - September 1835\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eby Ronald K. Esplin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAccomplishing the “redemption of Zion” was Joseph Smith’s primary concern for much of 1834 and 1835. After the Latter-day Saints had been forcibly removed from their lands in Jackson County, Missouri—the place where they believed God had commanded them to build the city of Zion—Joseph Smith led numerous efforts to reclaim those lands and restore the Saints to their homes. Covering April 1834 through September 1835, the ninety-three documents featured in this fourth volume of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papersshed light on Joseph Smith’s attempts to redeem Zion and reveal his maturation as a leader and prophet for a growing church facing nearly constant challenges. The project of redeeming Zion placed large demands on Joseph Smith’s time and resources. He left his home in Kirtland, Ohio, in May 1834 to lead a company of about two hundred individuals, known as the Camp of Israel and later as Zion’s Camp, to Missouri to aid the beleaguered Saints there. Smith also sought to redeem Zion through the construction of the House of the Lord (or temple) in Kirtland, where the elders of the church were to receive an “endowment of power,” and the publication of the Doctrine and Covenants, a collection of revelations that provided instruction to the Saints on church doctrine and theology. Funding these projects proved difficult, however. In part because of the loss of the printing press in Jackson County and the mounting construction costs of the Kirtland temple, Smith and the church faced severe financial problems in the mid-1830s. Several documents in this volume describe these projects, the church’s financial strain, and the resulting assignments given to some individuals to collect donations for the church. Meanwhile, the number of Saints in and outside Kirtland continued to increase. To address the challenge of growth, Joseph Smith further developed the church’s governing bodies and created a more complex administrative structure. Some documents presented herein, for example, detail the creation of new leadership positions in the church, including the offices of apostle, seventy, and church patriarch. The types of documents included in this volume range from minutes and administrative documents to personal letters and revelations. Particularly prominent are a number of recorded blessings. These documents reveal the growing importance that Joseph Smith placed on giving blessings that provided personalized instructions and promises to various individuals, including veterans of the Camp of Israel and new church leaders. The documents reproduced in this volume have been transcribed and annotated to the highest standards of documentary editing. Altogether, they open a window into Joseph Smith’s efforts to establish the kingdom of God on earth and his development as a leader of a growing religious movement. This volume is an indispensable resource for those studying the life of Joseph Smith during this formative and turbulent period. Excerpts from Documents, Volume 4 Revelation Commanding the Camp of Israel to Disband 22 June 1834 [D\u0026amp;C 105] “It is expedient in me that mine elders should wait for a little season for the redemption of Zion, that they themselves may be prepared and that my people may be taught more perfectly, and have experience and know more perfectly concerning their duty, and the things which I require at their hands, and this cannot be brought to pass until mine elders are endowed with power from on high, for behold I have prepared a great endowment and blessing to be poured out upon them[.]” Discourse Prefacing the Calling of the Twelve Apostles 14 February 1835 “President Smith arose and stated the reason why this meeting was called. It was this. God had commanded it and it was made known to him by vision and by the Holy Spirit. he then gave a relation of some of the circumstances attending us while journeying to Zion, our trials, sufferings \u0026amp;c \u0026amp;c. He said God had not designed all this for nothing, but he had it in remembrance yet, and those who went to Zion, with a determination to lay down their lives, if necessary, it was the Will of God, that they should be ordained to the ministry and go forth to prune the vineyard for the last time\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DESERET","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52608256868618,"sku":"210000001625","price":54.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-joseph-smith-papers-documents-vol-6-february-1838-august-1839-esplingrowgodfrey-pub-date-9-25-17","title":"The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents, Vol. 6","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFebruary 1838 - August 1839\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eby Ronald K. 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Smith's efforts to establish the Saints in northwestern Missouri are manifest in revelations, minutes of meetings, and other documents included in this volume. The growth of the Mormon population in Missouri caused resentment among earlier settlers and eventually led to conflict. In later October 1838, the governor of Missouri ordered the state militia to restore peace by subduing the Saints and expelling them from the state. In early November, the \"Mormon War\" concluded with the surrender of Far West, the arrest and imprisonment of Joseph Smith and several other church leaders, and the Saints' agreement under duress to leave the state. During the next half year, Joseph Smith was held in state custody, spending much of this time in the dungeon of the Clay County jailhouse. Meanwhile, thousands of Latter-day Saints began their forced evacuation from Missouri. Many suffered considerably during their winter journey to Illinois, where they sought refuge. While Smith was separated from the main body of Saints, he stayed informed of their plight and provided leadership through correspondence with family and friends and epistles to the church membership. These powerful and poignant letters are featured herein. In April 1839, Joseph Smith and his fellow prisoners escaped from custody and reunited with their families and other Saints in western Illinois. Smith was determined to find a new place where his people could again gather, and he soon directed settlement to Commerce, Illinois, a swampy area along the MIssissippi River. The church's acquisition of this land is chronicled in letters, minutes, and financial documents included in the volume. Documents also describe the malaria epidemic that ravaged the refugee community that summer, hampering their efforts to settle the area and resume church affairs. Yet they pressed forward and laid the foundations of the city of Nauvoo. The letters, minutes, revelations, and other texts presented in this volume provide essential documentation for this tumultuous period in Mormon history. The documents have been transcribed and annotated to the highest standards of documentary editing, making this volume an invaluable resource for those studying the life of Joseph Smith and the early history of the church he founded.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DESERET","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52608256901386,"sku":"210000001676","price":54.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-joseph-smith-papers-histories-vol-1-joseph-smith-histories-1832-1844-ed-davidsonwhittakerashurst-mcgeejensen-pub-date-3-12","title":"The Joseph Smith Papers: Histories Vol. 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1832 - 1844\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eby Dean C. Jessee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn November of 1843, when Willard Richards and William W. Phelps were compiling the \"History of Joseph Smith,\" they reported that noise from a nearby school \"disturbed the history \u0026amp; prevent[e]d its progress.\" Joseph Smith immediately instructed that the class be relocated. \"The History must continue, and not be disturbed,\" he declared; \"there are but few subjects that I have felt a greater anxiety about than my History.\" On another occasion he told Phelps of a message that had come to him in a dream: \"the history must go ahead before any thing.\" Though lawsuits, financial problems, violent opposition, and other impediments often interfered with Joseph Smith's attempts to write and oversee the creating of church history, sustained interest and repeated efforts yielded significant results, including several important narrative histories. Presented in this first volume of the Histories series are the six histories that Joseph Smith personally wrote, dictated or supervised. With the assistance of Frederick G. Williams, Joseph Smith first set about recording his own history in the summer of 1832. In it he recounted for the first time in writing his first vision of Deity and the discovery of the gold plates. Two years later a more ambitious project, the 1834-1836 history, was initiated. This history drew largely on existing records, including Oliver Cowdery's account of the translation of the Book of Mormon and the conferral of priesthood authority. Like the 1832 history, this manuscript remained unfinished. In April 1838, Joseph Smith began work on a new \"history of this Church from the earliest perio[d],\" the work that would eventually become the multivolume History of the Church. This volume of The Joseph Smith Papers presents in parallel columns for convenient comparison the three earliest surviving manuscripts of that history: an 1839 draft covering the period from May 1829 to September 1830; a sixty-one-page excerpt (from the volume later known as A-1) drafted from 1839 to about 1841 that covers the time from Smith's birth through late 1830; and a close parallel to the A-1 excerpt, a circa 1841 adaptation by scribe Howard Coray. A portion of the A-1 account was later canonized as \"Joseph Smith—History\" in the volume of Latter-day Saint scripture known as the Pearl of Great Price, thereby becoming the most widely known church history for the period it covers. The fourth narrative history in this volume, \"Extract, from the Private Journal of Joseph Smith Jr.,\" is not in fact taken from any journal but was based largely on Smith's 1839 petition for legal redress. It is his personal, and sometimes highly emotional, response to the injustices and depredations he and his family suffered in Missouri. \"Church History\" (familiarly known as the \"Wentworth letter\") and its near-twin document \"Latter Day Saints,\" both of which Joseph Smith signed as author, are important declarations to the non-Mormon world of the history and beliefs of the church. They include the statement of beliefs now knows as the Articles of Faith. Four additional histories, assigned by Joseph Smith but not dictated or supervised by him, will form the content of Histories, Volume 2. The balance of the Histories series, published electronically at the Joseph Smith Papers website, will present the entirety of the massive multivolume history initiated in 1838. Contents List of Illustrations and Maps Timeline of Joseph Smith's Life Map: Joseph Smith's Residences Series Introduction: Joseph Smith's Historical Enterprise Chart: History Creation Dates, Narrative Spans, Scribes, and Precursor Documents Chart: Relationships among Histories and Precursors Volume 1 Introduction: The Histories of Joseph Smith, 1832-1844 Editorial Method Joseph Smith Histories, 1832-1844 History, circa Summer 1832 History, 1834-1836 History Drafts, 1838-circa 1841 \"Extract, from the Private Journal of Joseph Smith Jr.,\" July 1839 \"Church History\" 1 March 1842 \"Latter Day Saints,\" 1 March 1842 Appendix: Orson Pratt, A[n] Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions, 1840 Reference Material Chronology for the Years 1805-1844 Maps Map Index Pedigree Chart Biographical Directory Glossary Essay on Sources Works Cited Corresponding Section Numbers in Editions of the Doctrine and Covenants Acknowledgments\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DESERET","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52608256934154,"sku":"210000002210","price":54.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-joseph-smith-papers-journals-vol-2-1841-1843-ed-hedgessmithanderson-pub-date-11-11","title":"The Joseph Smith Papers: Journals, Vol. 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1841 - 1843\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eby Dean C. Jessee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor those trying to understand Joseph Smith on his own terms, no amount of reading in the growing literature on Mormon history will every replace a direct appeal to the documents he and his associates produced. Through such records, students of history are able to watch events unfold through the eyes of contemporary witnesses, and feel the ebb and flow of people's everyday lives in ways that broader narratives and thematic studies largely miss. With their cancellations, misspellings, insertions, and other idiosyncrasies, such documents have the ability to transport careful readers through times and space to the very moment of inscription. This volume of The Joseph Smith Papers features the first Nauvoo, Illinois, journal of Joseph Smith as well as part of the second, covering the seventeen months from December 1841 through April 1843. Like the first five of his journals previously published (Journals, Volume 1), these Nauvoo journals close the distance between modern readers and the life, thought, and personality of the Mormon prophet. In addition, the events, teachings, revelations, ordinances, and organizational changes they help document constitute a significant contribution to foundational Latter-day Saint identity, beliefs, and practices. Kept primarily by scribes Willard Richards and William Clayton, these journals chronicle such significant developments as the organization of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo; proxy baptism for deceased persons; the publication of the Book of Abraham; the construction of the Nauvoo temple; the continued growth of the church and ongoing settlement of Nauvoo; and the maturing of Joseph Smith as a religious and political leader whose influence would extend far beyond the years of his life and the city he founded on the banks of the Mississippi River. The journals also detail the many challenges Joseph Smith faced during this period. Dissenters like John C. Bennett, who misrepresented Smith's teachings about plural marriage, and private developers like Robert D. Foster, whose personal agendas competed with Smith's efforts to build the temple and provide for the poor, caused him no end of trouble. At the same time, Joseph Smith was also accused of masterminding the 6 May 1842 assassination attempt on Lilburn W. Boggs, the former Missouri governor who ordered the removal of the Latter-day Saints from the state in 1838. This led to an attempt by Missouri and Illinois officials to have Smith arrested and extradited to Missouri from trial. Through the exertions of his friends and family Joseph Smith evaded capture until Illinois federal district judge Nathaniel Pope declared the extradition attempt invalid in early January 1843. More pages and entries in Joseph Smith's journal are devoted to aspects of this extradition attempt than to any other single topic. The journals featured here have been transcribed, introduced, and annotated according to the highest standards of documentary editing. Originally created under the direction of Joseph Smith himself, they constitute an essential primary source for research into the life of the founding prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during one of the most dynamic periods in the history of the faith.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DESERET","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52608256966922,"sku":"210000001542","price":54.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-joseph-smith-papers-histories-vol-2-assigned-histories-1831-1847-ed-davidsonjensenwhitaker-pub-date-9-12","title":"The Joseph Smith Papers: Histories Vol. 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1831 - 1847\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eby Dean C. Jessee \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Joseph Smith Papers Project is a collection of primary Joseph Smith documents that is invaluable to American history scholars, Mormon history scholars, and of importance to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Histories, Volume 2: Assigned Historical Writings, 1831-1847 is the latest volume in the series and covers histories assigned, but not overseen, by Joseph Smith. While Volume 1 contains histories written, dictated, or supervised by Joseph Smith, he also assigned several associates, including John Whitmer, William W. Phelps, John Corrill, and Edward Partridge, to write church histories. Their writings-vivid, personal, and sometimes surprising-are found in this second volume of the Histories series, which provides a rich, multifaceted view of the early years of the Latter-day Saint movement, particularly the Missouri Mormon War of 1838. Two of the histories found in Histories, Volume 2 were originally published in Latter-day Saint newspapers: William W. Phelps's \"Rise and Progress of the Church of Christ\" and the Times and Seasons series \"A History, of the Persecution, of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter Day Saints in Missouri.\" Whitmer and Corrill both left the church before finishing their histories. Most of Whitmer's history was composed in the words of a faithful Latter-day Saint, but Whitmer wrote the final three chapters of his history after his 1838 excommunication, and the manuscript closes in a critical tone. After Whitmer declined to turn over his history in 1838, Joseph Smith assigned Corrill as a church historian. Within a few months, Corrill also distanced himself from the Saints. The history he published became personal as well as institutional, laying out \"the reasons of the author for leaving the church.\" Like Whitmer's history, Corrill's gives readers a better understanding of the anxieties and difficulties experienced by some early converts to the faith. It also offers a detailed look into the conflicts and dilemmas confronting Joseph Smith and other leaders as they worked to create a unified community of Saints. The publication of The Joseph Smith Papers two centuries after the birth of the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens a window on a life filled with what he called \"marvelous experience.\" Despite having received little formal schooling, Joseph Smith left an extensive legacy of letters and other written records which is now being made widely available. The Joseph Smith Papers series is expected to span about twenty volumes in total. Histories, Volume 2 is the seventh published volume in the project. Visit JosephSmithPapers.org for more information about Histories, Volume 2 and other Joseph Smith Papers Project publications. The website also includes several documents that directly supplement the material in Volume 2. Press Release The Church Historian's Press announces that the second and final volume of the Histories series of The Joseph Smith Papers is now available for purchase. The volume is titled Assigned Histories, 1831-1847. The volume's editors are Karen Lynn Davidson, Richard L. Jensen, and David J. Whittaker. Like Histories, Volume 1, this volume includes documents that were specifically written to narrate the story of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The results are highly readable accounts that provide details found nowhere else about key events from JS's life and the early church. While Volume 1 contains histories written, dictated, or supervised by Joseph Smith, he assigned several associates, including John Whitmer, William W. Phelps, John Corrill, and Edward Partridge, to write church histories. Their writings-vivid, personal, and sometimes surprising-are found in this second volume of the Histories series, which provides a rich, multifaceted view of the early years of the Latter-day Saint movement, particularly the \"Mormon War\" of 1838. A revelation in 1831 assigned John Whitmer to write the church history, a project he worked on periodically for more than fifteen years. His manuscript weaves together copies of important letters, revelations, petitions, and other documents with his own narrative. Most of Whitmer's history was composed in the words of a faithful Latter-day Saint, but Whitmer wrote the final three chapters of his history after his 1838 excommunication, and the manuscript closes in a critical tone. After John Whitmer declined to turn over his history in 1838, Joseph Smith assigned John Corrill as a church historian. Within a few months, Corrill also distanced himself from the Saints. The history he published became personal as well as institutional, laying out \"the reasons of the author for leaving the church.\" Like Whitmer's history, Corrill's gives readers a better understanding of the anxieties and difficulties experienced by some early converts to the faith. It also offers a detailed look into the conflicts and dilemmas confronting Joseph Smith and other leaders as they worked to create a unified community of Saints. Also included in Histories, Volume 2 are two histories published in Latter-day Saint newspapers. The first, a short article titled \"Rise and Progress of the Church of Christ,\" was written by William W. Phelps in 1833 in response to a request by Joseph Smith to make The Evening and the Morning Star more interesting to readers. The second originated after the \"Mormon War,\" an extended armed conflict between the Mormons and their neighbors in northwest Missouri that resulted in the Mormons being expelled from the state and Joseph Smith being incarcerated. In March 1839 he wrote a letter from prison instructing church members and -Bishop [Edward] Partridge in particular- to document the sufferings and abuses experienced in Missouri. In response, Partridge wrote a detailed eyewitness account that was published serially in the church's newspaper, the Times and Seasons. The series, titled \"A History, of the Persecution, of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter Day Saints, in Missouri,\" also drew on previously published accounts of the Saints hardships, including writings by Sidney Rigdon and Parley P. Pratt. The documents in this volume are carefully transcribed and are contextualized with annotation and illustrations. The volume also has extensive reference material, including biographies of the people mentioned in the documents, maps, a glossary, and a detailed chronology. It also contains the cumulative index to volumes 1 and 2. With the publication of Volume 2, the letterpress edition of the Histories series is now complete. The balance of the Histories series, published electronically at the Joseph Smith Papers website, will present the entirety of the massive multivolume history initiated in 1838. Volumes one and two of that history are already available online. The website also features supplementary material to volumes 1 and 2, including source texts for the documents found in the published volumes. As with all other volumes of The Joseph Smith Papers, the documents contained in Volume 2 will be posted on the project website at a future date. This volume, along with all previously published volumes of The Joseph Smith Papers, is available for purchase through Deseret Book Company, the distributor for the project, and many other booksellers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DESERET","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52608257065226,"sku":"210000001566","price":54.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-joseph-smith-papers-revelations-and-translations-vol-1-manuscript-revelation-books-facsimile-edition-ed-jensenwoodfordharper-pub-date-9-09","title":"The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations, Vol. 1:","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eby Dean C. Jessee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Joseph Smith Papers publishing project puts into one comprehensive collection the writings attributed to this religious leader, offering information and insight about Joseph Smith, early Mormonism, and nineteenth-century American religion. This facsimile edition of Revelations and Translations: Manuscript Revelation Books opens a new series. The volume provides new access to priceless documents dating from 1828 to 1834. For the first time, you can view photocopies of original writings in the actual hand of early Church leaders such as Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery and Sidney Rigdon. Revelations and Translations: Manuscript Revelation Books includes an introductory essay with the balance of the book showing reproductions of the manuscripts. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DESERET","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52608257097994,"sku":"210000001073","price":99.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-joseph-smith-papers-revelations-and-translations-vol-2-published-revelations-ed-jensenturleylorimer-pub-date-3-11","title":"The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations, Vol. 2:","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eby Dean C. Jessee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn November 1831, Joseph Smith and his associates in the leadership of the Church of Christ decided to publish Smith's dictated revelations for the first time. Several score revelations, dating from as early as July 1828, would be printed in volume to be called the Book of Commandments. When Oliver Cowdery, the highest-ranking officer in the church after Smith, asked a conference of elders to determine how many copies \"it was the will of the Lord should be published in the first edition of that work,\" the elders \"voted that there be ten thousand copies struck.\" For an organization less than two years old with a membership of just a few hundred, the decision appears overly ambitious, but Joseph Smith had already published five thousand copies of the Book of Mormon under even more modest circumstances. He understood that printing was essential both to preserve and to disseminate the sacred texts God had given him. To that point, the revelations had been available only in manuscript form to Smith's closest associates, but with publication they could \"go forth unto all flesh\" as authorized by the revelation intended to end the book. Revelations and Translations, Volume 2: Published Revelations features the Book of Commandments and the other major printed versions of Joseph Smith's revelations that were published or in the process of being published during his lifetime. Reproduced herein as high-quality photographs are the Book of Commandments (1833); the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants (1835), including the portion that has come to be known as the \"Lectures on Faith\"; and seven additional texts added to the second edition of the Doctrine and Covenants (1844). Reproduced herein as transcripts are twenty-six complete or partial revelation texts published in the church newspaper The Evening and the Morning Star (1832-1833) and its later, reprinted version, Evening and Morning Star (1835-1836). Because these newspaper versions were produced in connection with editing and typesetting work on the Book of Commandments and the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants, they are critical sources for understanding the textual history of the revelations. This volume of The Joseph Smith Papers also includes two appendixes that provide important related material. The first is a proposed reconstruction of what likely would have been included in the final thirty-two pages of the Book of Commandments, had the print shop not been destroyed mid-run by vigilantes. The second presents selected photographs of a copy of the Book of Commandments owned by Oliver Cowdery and marked up to prepare revelations for publication in the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants. Revelations and Translations, Volume 2 goes hand in hand with Manuscript Revelation Books, the first volume in this series. Manuscript Revelation Books presents the earliest surviving manuscripts of many of Joseph Smith's revelations, the ones used by Smith and his associates in preparing the published scriptures of their day. Volume 2 presents the printed revelations in the form that most early Latter-day Saints read and experienced them. Together the two volumes make the early revelations more accessible than ever before. ContentsDetailed ContentsTimeline of Joseph Smith's LifeMap: Joseph Smith's ResidencesVolume 2 Introduction: Joseph Smith — Era Publications of RevelationsEditorial MethodPublished RevelationsBook of CommandmentsAppendix 1: Proposed Sixth Gathering of the Book of CommandmentsRevelations Printed in The Evening and the Morning StarDoctrine and Covenants, 1835Appendix 2: Selections from Oliver Cowdery's Copy of the Book of CommandmentsDoctrine and Covenants, 1844 (Sections 101-107)Reference MaterialChronology for the Years 1831-1835, 1844Directory of PrintersSubstitute Words in the 1835 and 1844 Editions of the Doctrine and CovenantsWorks CitedCorresponding Published Versions of RevelationsAcknowledgments\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DESERET","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52608257130762,"sku":"210000001384","price":69.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-joseph-smith-papers-documents-vol-1-july-1828-june-1831-ed-mckaydirkmaatunderstoodwoodfordhartley-pub-date-9-9-13","title":"The Joseph Smith Papers: Vol 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBy Dean C. Jessee \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJuly 1828 - June 1831\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis volume marks the beginning of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers. When complete, the Documents series will publish more than a thousand documents created, authorized, or owned by Joseph Smith, including each of his revelations in its earliest form, reports of his discourses, and correspondence. Also found in the series are articles and editorials he wrote for newspapers, minutes of meetings in which he participated, and records of his ecclesiastical administration. This first volume of the Documents series consists of documents written from July 1828 to June 1831. Among the contents of this volume are more than five dozen revelations that were presented in the first-person voice of Jesus Christ, including texts later published in the Doctrine and Covenants, the expansive “visions of Moses” (now found in the Pearl of Great Price), and revelations never canonized. In addition, several documents in this volume trace the process of translating and printing the Book of Mormon, as well as early efforts to evangelize using the book and its message. These texts provide the earliest textual insights into Joseph Smith and the founding of what was then called the Church of Christ. They offer glimpses into the religious leader’s thoughts, concerns, and initiatives in a crucial early period of the religious movement he started. This book allows the reader not only to study Joseph Smith but also to gain a greater understanding of his followers and the millenarian movement they participated in during the Second Great Awakening.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DESERET","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52608257163530,"sku":"210000001445","price":54.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-light-thats-shines-forever","title":"The Light that’s Shines Forever","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eby David T. Warner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe inspiring, true story of Sir Nicholas Winton, who ingeniously rescued hundreds of children before Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe shadow of war was spreading across Europe. Hitler's armies had marched into the borderlands of Czechoslovakia, forcing Jewish families, among others, to flee their homes and seek refuge in any location that would accept them. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Nicholas Winton, the son of Jewish-German immigrants, traveled from London to Czechoslovakia to help the refugee families huddled in tents in sprawling encampments, an ingenious plan began to formulate in his head. By special waiver, children could leave the country without their parents, as long as host families abroad took them in. As word of his plan spread, parents lined the hallways and staircases of Winton's hotel, begging for help. If Nicholas could get their children out of the country safely, the families would find a way to join them. Three weeks later, when Winton returned to London, he carried with him the names and photographs of hundreds of children--even babies--entrusted to him by their parents. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith the assistance of his mother and a growing circle of helpers, Winton began recruiting host families, raising funds, and securing visas. For nine months, he arranged for children to travel by train and ferry to England. Then war was declared, and the Czech border closed. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFifty years later, Nicholas's wife, Grete, discovered a long-forgotten scrapbook in their attic containing the names and documentation of 669 children. It was the only record of her husband's remarkable rescue efforts. What followed was a series of equally remarkable events that allowed this heroic story to be told and for millions to learn the fate of these rescued children, all on live television. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Light That Shines Forever\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a beautifully illustrated picture book, with primary source documents and photographs, that brings to life a remarkable wartime rescue. Its lesson and message invite readers to ask the questions: What light will we bring to others? What stories will fill the scrapbooks of our lives?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DESERET","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52608257884426,"sku":"2100000180158","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"quincy-miracle-the-rawsonlyman","title":"The Quincy Miracle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Rescue Never To Be Forgotten\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRawson\/Lyman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHistory of the Saints\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the late winter and early spring of 1839, Latter-day Saint refugees began appearing on the banks of the Mississippi River opposite Quincy, Illinois. They had been ordered to leave the state of Missouri by the decree of Governor Lilburn W. Boggs, and the state militia had enforced the chief executive's infamous Extermination Order. Banished from Missouri and their homes, the Saints took the only route out of the state open to them—due east to Quincy, where they hoped the could escape the unspeakable atrocities of Missouri. The citizens of Quincy looked across the wide river and saw there the starving and freezing refugees, arriving in droves. Before long, hundreds could be seen lining the shore. The people of Quincy were trouble by what they saw. Who are these people? Why are they flocking to our shores? What are we going to do? Their response became known as The Quincy Miracle. The story that follows is the heart-rending history of the Latter-day Saints in Quincy, Illinois. It's an emotional story: at one moment you'll feel shock and outrage over the cruelty endured by the Saints in Missouri, and at the next your heart will swell with gratitude unbounded for the kindness shown them in Quincy—the same gratitude expressed in a most unusual way more than 160 years later in the summer of 2002. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DESERET","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52608261849354,"sku":"210000002014","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-rise-of-the-latter-day-saints-the-journals-and-histories-of-newel-k-knight-by-william-g-hartley-and-michael-hubbard-mackay","title":"The Rise of the Latter-day Saints","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Journals and Histories of Newel Knight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorians and academics use a handful of histories written by those closest to Joseph Smith during ministry to document and tell the story of the Latter-day Saints. 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