970

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199

Book

English

Launius, Roger D.

Joseph Smith III : Pragmatic Prophet

Urbana

University of Illinois Press

1990

[1991 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Book]

Biographies, male, 19th century (books)
Award Winner
Succession, LDS Presidency
Schisms, RLDS
Smith, Joseph III, biographies
Missiology, missions to the Mormons

A Black Woman in a White Man's Church : Amy E. Robbins and the Reorganization
Adjustment or Apostasy? The Reorganized Church in the Late Twentieth Century
A 'Goodly Heritage' in a Time of Transformation : History and Identity in the Community of Christ
A House Full of Females : Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Alexander H. Smith : Remembering a Son of Joseph and Emma Smith
'Almost Mormon-Almost Christian' : The Image of the RLDS Church in Contemporary Anti-Mormonism
A Missionary Family : Mormon Lives of the Carter Clan of Benson, Vermont
An Ambivalent Rejection : Baptism for the Dead and the Reorganized Church Experience
"A Negro Preacher" : The Worlds of Elijah Ables
"Answering Questions No Longer Asked" : Nauvoo, Its Meaning and Interpretation in the RLDS/Community of Christ Church
A Peace Gene Isolated : Joseph Smith III
A Renewal of the Faith : The Origins and Progress of the Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
'A Storm in the Camp of Brighamism' : LDS-RLDS Relations in Brisbane, Australia, 1901-1918
A Tale of Two Mormons
A Tale of Two Religions: RLDS and LDS Responses to the Civil Rights Movement
At the Barricades of the Gospel : The Conspiracy Theme in RLDS History
A Widow's Tale : The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
Beyond Black Muslims and Reorganized Mormons : The Transformation of Two New Religious Movements in America
Beyond Modernity : The Future of the RLDS Church
Beyond Nauvoo : Discovering the Reorganized Church Story Again for the First Time
B. H. Roberts: A Life in the Public Arena
Biography in Mormon Studies
Black Mormon : The Story of Elijah Ables
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Building the Kingdom : A History of Mormons in America
"Called by a New Name" : Mission, Identity, and the Reorganized Church
Changing Portraits of the Elect Lady : Emma Smith in Non-Mormon, RLDS, and LDS Historiography, 1933-2005
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) (Mormonism)
Community of Christ : An American Progressive Christianity, With Mormonism as an Option
Contemporary Developments : LDS Conference Trends from 1980-2009
Contesting the LDS Image : The North American Review and the Mormons, 1881-1907
Differing Visions : Dissenters in Mormon History
Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy―Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Earning Respect in Wisconsin : Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Mormons
Eating Vegetables to Build Zion : RLDS Children in the 1920s
Elijah Banta : Community Builder of the Early Reorganization
Elijah Banta : Community Builder of the Early Reorganization
Emma and Eliza and the Stairs
Emma's Legacy : Life After Joseph
Exhibiting Mormonism : The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
First : The Life and Faith of Emma Smith
Four American Prophets Confront Slavery : Joseph Smith, William Miller, Ellen G. White and Mary Baker Eddy
From Davis to Edwards to Howard to Scherer : Offical History in the Reorganization
From Mission to Madness : Last Son of the Mormon Prophet
From Peoplehood to Church Membership : Mormonism's Trajectory since World War II
Gentle Monarch : The Presidency of Israel A. Smith
Glorious in Persecution : Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839–1844
Grant McMurray and the Succession Crisis in the Community of Christ
'Heirs according to the Promise' : Observations on Ethnicity, Race and Identity in the Two Factions of Nineteenth-century Mormonism
"His whole life has been one of rectitude and honor" : William B. Smith's Final Years in Northeastern Iowa
Honoring Juanita Brooks : A Compilation of 30 Annual Presentations from the Juanita Brooks Lecture Series
How Mormon is the Community of Christ?
“I Dug the Graves” : Isaac Lewis Manning, Joseph Smith, and Racial Connections in Two Latter Day Saint Traditions
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents
Is Joseph Smith Relevant to the Community of Christ?
John Hawley, Mormon Ulysses : His LDS Mission to Iowa and Eventual RLDS Conversion
John Willard Young, Brigham Young, and the Development of Presidential Succession in the LDS Church
Joseph Bates Noble : Polygamy and the Temple Lot Case
Josephites at the Tops of the Mountains : RLDS Congregations in Utah
Joseph Smith's Polygamy
Joseph's Red Brick Store
Kingdom of Nauvoo : The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
Kirtland Temple : The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space
LDS Misconceptions about the Community of Christ
Let Contention Cease : The Dynamics of Dissent in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith
Lineal Priesthood
Luana Hart Beebe (1814-1897) : A Biographical Sketch of a Remarkable Early Latter-day Saint
'Many Mansions' : The Dynamics of Dissent in the Nineteenth-Century Reorganized Church
Mark Hill Forscutt : Mormon Missionary, Morrisite Apostle, RLDS Minister
Mark Hill Forscutt : Mormon Missionary, Morrisite Apostle, RLDS Minister
Monogamy Underground : The Burial of Mormon Plural Marriage in the Graves of Joseph and Emma Smith
Mormon Christianity
Mormon History
Mormonism
Mormonism's Blacksmith Orator : B. H. Roberts at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions
Mormons in America
Old Mormon Nauvoo and Southeastern Iowa
One Side By Himself : The Life and Times of Lewis Barney 1808-1894
Ownership of the Kirtland Temple : Legends, Lies, and Misunderstandings
Performance in Faith-Based Organizations as a Function of Mission Clarity, Coherence, and Focus
Persuading Men and Women to Join in Celestial Marriage
Praying with One Eye Open : Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia
Precept upon Precept: Joseph Smith and the Restoration of Doctrine
Prophet, Seer, and Tour Guide : The Changing Message of Kirtland Temple Interpreters from 1830-1930
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Remaking the Reorganization : The Transformative Years of 1958 to 1970 in the RLDS Church
Revelation, Scripture, and Authority in the Latter-day Saint Diaspora, 1840-1870
Scattering of the Saints : Schism within Mormonism
Schismatic Groups
Search for Asylum : The Mormons Petition the Kentucky Governor, 1845
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
'Something Was Wanting' : The Meteoric Career of John Greenbow, Mormon Propagandist
Storming the Nation : The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries
Strangite Mormons : A finding aid
Succession by Seniority : The Development of Procedural Precedents, in the LDS Church
Telling the Nauvoo Story
Temples Rising : A Heritage of Sacrifice
The 'Beautiful Death' In the Smith Family
The Book of Mormon : An Asset or Liability for a Becoming Peace Church?
The City of Joseph in Focus : The Use and Abuse of Historic Photographs
The Council of Fifty Minutes and Latter Day Saint Studies on Succession
The Development of the Fort Collins Mormon Community During the Twentieth Century
The Establishment and Redemption of Zion
The Journey of a People : The Era of the Reorganization, 1844 to 1946
The Kirtland Safety Society and the Fraud of Grandison Newell : A Legal Examination
The Last Smith Presidents and the Transformation of the RLDS Church
The Letter and the Spirit: The Lord's Supper and Set Forms in Two Restoration Churches
"The Making of a Steward" : Zion, Ecclesiastical Power, and RLDS Bodies, 1923-31
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormon-RLDS Boundary, 1852-1991 : Walls to Windows
The Mormons of the Wisconsin Territory : 1835-1848
The Mormon Succession Crisis : A Family View
The Mormon Trail : Yesterday and Today
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Past and Future of the Temple Lot in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri
The Remnant Church : An RLDS Schismatic Group Finds a Prophet of Joseph's Seed
The RLDS Church on the Pacific Slope
The Scattered Saints of Southwestern Iowa Cutlerite-Josephite Conflict and Rivalry, 1855-1865
The Temple Lot Suit after 100 Years
The Texas Republic and the Mormon Kingdom of God
The 'Unidentified Pioneers' : An Analysis of Staffordshire Mormons, 1837 to 1870
The Upper-Room Work : Esotericism in the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite), 1853-1912
"To Set in Order the House of God" : The Search for the Elusive "One Mighty and Strong"
Understanding Multiple Mormonisms
Vernacular Mormonism : The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930)
Visions in the Early Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Was Joseph F. Smith Blessed by His Father Hyrum Smith in Liberty Jail?
What is Mormonism? A Student’s Introduction
Why Denominations Can Climb Hills: RLDS Conversions in Highland Tribal India and Midwestern America, 1964–2000
Wrestling the Angel : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Cosmos, God, Humanity
Zenas Hovey Gurley Jr. and His Fight Against Polygamy and Mormon Zion

A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A Demographic Portrait of the Mormons, 1830-1980
After 150 Years : The Latter-day Saints in Sesquicentennial Perspective
A History of Illinois : From Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847
A History of the Latter-day Saints in Clay County, Missouri, from 1833 to 1837
A History of the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri from 1836 to 1839
'All Things Move in Order in the City' : The Nauvoo Diary of Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs
A Mormon Bibliography, 1830-1930 : Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, and Broadsides Relating to the First Century of Mormonism
An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon
An Image of Joseph Smith, Jr. : A Personality Study
'A Plainer Translation' : Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible : A History and Commentary
A Reexamination of the Woodruff Manifesto in the Light of Utah Constitutional History
A Study of the Mormon Practice of Plural Marriage before the Death of Joseph Smith
Authorship of the History of Joseph Smith : A Review Essay
Autobiography of Elder Charles Derry
A Visit to Nauvoo in 1856
Bankruptcy Proceedings against Joseph Smith in Illinois
Beyond Literalism
B. H. Roberts at the World Parliament of Religions
B. H. Roberts : Studies of the Book of Mormon
Biographical and Historical Record of Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa
Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations
Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier
Brigham Young : The American Moses
'Brother Joseph Is Truly a Wonderful Man, He Is All We Could Wish a Prophet to Be' : Pre-1844 Letters of William Law
Building the City of God : Community and Cooperation among the Mormons
Carthage Conspiracy : The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
Charles Derry : A Palimpsestic View
Common Beginnings, Divergent Beliefs
Comprehensive Bibliography of the Book of Mormon (through December 1986) : Arranged Alphabetically by Author
Conflict and Compromise : The Mormons in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Politics
Conflict at Kirtland : The Nature and Causes of External and Internal Conflict of the Mormons in Ohio between 1830 and 1838
Context of the Restoration
Correspondence of Bishop George Miller with the Northern Islander : From His First Acquaintance with Mormonism up to Near the Close of his Life
David H. Smith : A Son of the Prophet
Desert Saints : The Mormon Frontier in Utah
Did the Word of Wisdom Become a Commandment in 1851?
Divergent Paths of the Restoration : A History of the Latter-day Saint Movement
Doctrinal Development of the Church during the Nauvoo Sojourn 1839-1846
Dream and Nightmare : Nauvoo Revisited
Edward Tullidge : Historian of the Mormon Commonwealth
Edward Wheelock Tullidge, The Mormons' Rebel Historian
Edward W. Tullidge and the Reorganization
Evangelical America and Early Mormonism
Eyes Single to the Glory : The History of the Heavenly City of Zion
First Ladies of the Restoration
For God and the American Home : The Attempt to Unseat Senator Reed Smoot, 1903-1907
'For Life, the Resurrection, and the Life Everlasting' : James J. Strang and Strangite Mormon Polygamy, 1849-1856
Frederick Madison Smith : The Formative Years of an RLDS President
Frederick M. Smith : Saint as Reformer, 1874-1946
From Quaker to Latter-day Saint : Bishop Edwin D. Woolley
Frontier Nauvoo : Building a Picture from Statistics
Heber C. Kimball : Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer
History of Hancock County, Illinois, Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period II : From the Manuscript History of Brigham Young and Other Original Documents
History of Utah
'I Have Sinned against Heaven, and Am Unworthy of Your Confidence, but I Cannot Live without a Reconciliation' : Thomas B. Marsh Returns to the Church
Images of Orthodoxy : Self-Identity in Early Reorganization Apologetics
Insanity and the Sweet Singer : A Biography of David Hyrum Smith, 1844-1904
Intolerable Zion : The Image of Mormonism in Nineteenth Century American Literature
Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses
Isaac Galland-Mormon Benefactor
Jackson County, 1831-1833 : A Look at the Development of Zion
James J. Strang : The Prophet Who Failed
Joseph, Brigham and the Twelve : A Succession of Continuity
Joseph Smith And Legal Process : In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo
Joseph Smith and Polygamy : An Alternative View
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Joseph Smith and the Millenarian Time Table
Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith III and the Mormons of Utah
Joseph Smith III : Moderate Mormon
Joseph Smith III : Prophetic Son of a Prophet
Joseph Smith III's 1844 Blessing and the Mormons of Utah
Joseph Smith, Jr.'s Red Brick Store
Joseph Smith's Introduction of Temple Ordinances and the 1844 Mormon Succession Question
Joseph Smith, the Book of Abraham, and the Reorganized Church in the 1970s
Joseph Smith : the First Mormon
Joseph Smith, the Prophet, His Family and His Friends
Joseph Smith : The Verdict of Depth Psychology
King James Strang : Joseph Smith's Successor?
Kirtland : A Perspective on Time and Place
Kirtland, A Stronghold For the Kingdom
Latter Day Saint Scriptures and the Doctrine of Propositional Revelation
Life in Utah; or, The Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism
Moderation as a Theological Principle in the Thought of Joseph Smith III
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormon Foreknowledge of the West
Mormonism and the American Experience
Mormonism : Its Leaders and Designs
Mormonism on the Defensive : Far West, 1838-1839
Mormonism's Encounter with Spiritualism
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormonism Unveiled
Mormonism Unveiled; Or, A History of Mormonism from its Rise to the Present Time
Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo
Mormon Polygamy : A History
Mormon Polygamy : A Review Article
Nauvoo and the Council of the Twelve
Nauvoo and the New Mormon History : A Bibliographical Survey
Nauvoo : Kingdom on the Mississippi
Nauvoo's Whistling and Whittling Brigade
Nauvoo : The City of Joseph
New Light on an Old Hypothesis : The Ohio Origins of the Revelation on Eternal Marriage
New Light on the Sun : Emma Smith and the New York Sun Letter
Nineteenth-Century Mormons : The New Israel
Oliver Cowdery, Second Elder and Scribe
One Man's Nauvoo : William Clayton's Experience in Mormon Illinois
Organizational Development and Social Origins of the Mormon Hierarchy, 1832-1932 : A Prosopographical Study
Palmyra Revisited : A Look at Early Nineteenth-Century America and the Book of Mormon
Platting the City Beautiful : A Historical and Archaeological Glimpse of Nauvoo Streets
Polygyny and Fertility in Nineteenth Century America
Population Growth in the Mormon Core Area : 1847-90
Problems in Interpreting the Book of Mormon as History
Quest for Empire : The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Quest for Zion : Joseph Smith III and Community-Building in the Reorganization, 1860-1900
Religion and Sexuality : Three American Communal Experiments in the Nineteenth Century
Restoration Scriptures : A Study of Their Textual Development
Return to Carthage: Writing the History of Joseph Smith's Martyrdom
RLDS Views of Polygamy : Some Historiographical Notes
Sickness and Faith, Nauvoo Letters
Sketches of the Sweet Singer : David Hyrum Smith, 1844-1904
Sons of the Martyrs' Nauvoo Reunion-1860
Suffering and Death on the Plains of Iowa
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
The Absurdities of Mormonism Portrayed
The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt
The Awesome Power of Sex : The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy
The Book of Mormon--Attack and Defense : A Bibliographic Essay pt. I
The Book of Mormon Authorship : New Light on Ancient Origins
The Book of Mormon in a Biblical Culture
The Challenge to Centralized Power : Zenos H. Gurley, Jr., and the Prophetic Office
The Changing RLDS Response to Mormon Polygamy : A Preliminary Analysis
The Church in New York and Pennsylvania
The Coming of the Manifesto
The Commencement of the Godbeite Protest : Another View
'The Death of a Mormon Dictator' : Letters of Massachusetts Mormons, 1843-1848
The Diary of Charles Lowell Walker
The Diffusion and Dispersion of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints : An Overview
The Early Temples of the Mormons : The Architecture of the Millennial Kingdom in the American West
The Election Day Battle at Gallatin
The Evolution of the Presiding Quorums of the LDS Church
The Founder of Mormonism : A Psychological Study of Joseph Smith, Jr.
The Heavens Resound : A History of the Latter-day Saints in Ohio, 1830-1838
The History of Salt Lake City and Its Founders
The History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
The History of the Saints : Or, An Expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism
The Joseph/Hyrum Smith Funeral Sermon
The Kingdom of Saint James : A Narrative of the Mormons
The Kingdom or Nothing : The Life of John Taylor, Militant Mormon
The Kirtland Temple : A Historical Narrative
The Life of Joseph Smith, the Prophet
The Lion and the Lady : Brigham Young and Emma Smith
The Lion of the Lord : A Biography of Brigham Young
The Making of King Strang : A Re-examination
The Melodious Sounds of "Baneemy's Organ"
The Memoirs of President Joseph Smith III (1832-1914)
The Memoirs of President W. W. Blair
The Mormon Conflict, 1850-1859
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Quest for a Perfect Society at Lamoni, Iowa, 1870-1890
The Mormon Question Enters National Politics, 1850-1856
The Mormon Role in the Settlement of the West
The Mormons
The Mormon Scriptures : A Bibliography of Their History and Textual Development, (Pt. III : The Book of Mormon)
The Mormon Succession Crisis of 1844
The Mormons Who Did Not Go West : A Study of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
The Mormon Village : Genesis and Antecedents of the City of Zion Plan
The Nauvoo Charter : A Reinterpretation
The Patriarchal Crisis of 1845
The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
The Prophet Puzzle : Suggestions Leading Toward a More Comprehensive Interpretation of Joseph Smith
The Reliability of Joseph Smith's History
The Reorganization in Nineteenth Century America : Identity Crisis or Historiographical Problem?
The Reorganized Church in Illinois, 1852-82 : Search for Identity
The Restoration Movement : Essays in Mormon History
The Restored Church
The Sacred Departments for Temple Work in Nauvoo : The Assembly Room and the Council Chamber
The Saints and the Union : Utah Territory during the Civil War
The Secular Smiths
The Story of the Church
The Suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor
The Sweet Singer of Israel : David Hyrum Smith
The tradition of dissent : Jason W. Briggs
The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness : Sidney Rigdon, Religious Reformer, 1793-1876
The Word of Wisdom in Early Nineteenth-Century Perspective
The Words of Joseph Smith : The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
The Writing of Joseph Smith's History
Trials of Discipleship : The Story of William Clayton, a Mormon
'True Son of a True Father' : Joseph Smith III and the Succession Question
Voices of Dissent : The History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Utah, 1863-1900
What do I Remember About Nauvoo?
William B. Smith : The Persistent 'Pretender'
William Law, Nauvoo Dissenter
William Smith, 1811-93 : Problematic Patriarch
William Smith : Brother of the Prophet Joseph Smith
William Smith on Mormonism
Young People's History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Volume 2