Portal:Mormonism

Works Published by the Church before June 27, 1844

Standard Works

• The Book of Mormon (1830)
• A Book of Commandments (1833), predecessor to The Doctrine and Covenants (1835)
  • Lectures on Faith (included in the Doctrine and Covenants)

Periodicals

• The Evening and the Morning Star (1832–1834)
• Messenger and Advocate (1834–1837)
• Elders' Journal (1837–1838)
• Times and Seasons (1839–1846)
• The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star (1840–1970). Publication continued by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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
• Reed Peck manuscript
• Collection of Facts Relative to the Course Taken by Elder Sidney Rigdon (1844) by Jedediah M. Grant
• 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 (external)” 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

• Testimony against Chauncey L. Higbee (May 9, 1844)

Interviews

• 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 Joseph Smith to Sidney Rigdon (27 March 1843)
• Letter from Joseph Smith to Thomas Ford (14 June 1844)
• 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

Deseret alphabet

• The Deseret First Book (transcription project)
• The Deseret Second Book (transcription project)

Criticism of Mormonism

• Mormonism Unvailed (1834) by Eber D. Howe
• Mormonism Portrayed (1841) by William Harris
• The Nauvoo Expositor (1844)
• Utah and the Mormons (1854) by Benjamin G. Ferris
• The Mormon Prophet and His Harem (1866) by C. V. Waite
• The Rocky Mountain Saints (1873) by T. B. H. Stenhouse
• Mormonism Exposed (1902) by Golman Buford Hancock
• The Founder of Mormonism: A Psychological Study of Joseph Smith, Jr. (1902) by Woodbridge Riley

Apostate memoirs

• The History of the Saints (1842) by John C. Bennett (transcription project)

Sects

"Strangites"

• Letter of appointment (1844)
• Book of the Law of the Lord (1851) (external scan)
• Sketch of James Jesse Strang and the Mormon Kingdom on Beaver Island (1882)
• A Moses of the Mormons (1897) by Henry Eduard Legler
• A Child of the Sea and Life Among the Mormons (1905) by Elizabeth Whitney Williams

See also

• Portal:Christianity