Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much controversy as polygamy, called plural or celestial marriage within the church. It divided prophet Joseph Smith's own household, caused a schism ...

Latter-day Saint scholar Matthew Bowman discusses LDS prophet Joseph Fielding Smith, who led fights over evolution, the age ...

For the first time the official site focused on the faith’s 19th-century practice of polygamy for kids. The storybook chapter ...

President Joseph F. Smith, the head of the church, read a manifesto repudiating plural marriages. He said: View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Joseph Smith is one of the most fulsome characters in 19th-century American history: a visionary, an organizer, a schemer, a mover of people, an inventor of a religion that brought polygamy to ...

Neither Joseph Smith nor the Mormon missionaries shied away from making these claims. The Mormon practice of polygamy, a part of church doctrine at the time that was publicly announced in 1852 but ...