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Joseph Smith, Jr. worked his way through the tumultuous religious frenzy of his times and gave the world a frontier American religion, Mormonism.

As political and religious tensions grew between Mormons and non-Mormons in the 19th century, Joseph Smith was killed by a mob intent on eradicating the LDS church.

Joseph Smith, Jr. organized and first led the "Mormon Church." From the First Vision in 1820 to his murder in 1844, Joseph Smith's life was anything but ordinary.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is upset over the content of an upcoming episode of the popular HBO show Big Love which features an "endowment ceremony."

In 1826, the founder of the Mormon church would be tried for being an impostor over a gold digging agreement signed with a Pennsylvania farmer.

In 1846 Brigham Young led the first group of Mormons from Nauvoo, Ill., to present-day Utah.

Many people refer to the Book of Mormon as the Mormon Bible, it has never been the Bible for any Mormon group.

The Mormon church is always led by a president who is ordained as prophet, seer, and revelator. Monson is the latest in the line of 16 prophets since Joseph Smith.

When most people hear the term Mormon, they think of Utah and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but Joseph Smith Jr started a religious movement.

In 1966, the scrolls that Joseph Smith used to produce the Book of Abraham were uncovered in a New York museum. These scrolls contain the Breathing Permit of Hor.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints calls itself the restored church of Jesus Christ. What does that mean, and why do Mormons talk so much about it?

After centuries of worldwide apostasy, Mormons believe an 1820 visitation to their prophet Joseph Smith began the restoration of Jesus Christ's original church on earth.

The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ that records the dealings of God with a group of people in ancient America and records Christ's visit to them.