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The Joseph Smith Papers

Season 1 · Episode 15

History of a History

0.0May 25, 2009

Dean Jesse discusses Joseph's anxiety over keeping the history of a work that would change human events.

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Episode 1Overview
Episode 2Joseph's Roots
Episode 3Joseph's America
Episode 4Palmyra
Episode 5First Vision Beginnings
Episode 6Four Accounts
Episode 7The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon
Episode 8Harmony

Episode 9

Priesthood

Episode 10The Papers People--Part 1

Episode 11The Papers People--Part 2

Episode 12The Translation of the Book of Mormon

Episode 13Printing the Book of Mormon

Episode 14A Mother's Account

Episode 15History of a History

Episode 16Joseph's Journals

Episode 17Oliver's Story

Episode 18They Met the Prophet

Episode 19Saving Joseph's Leg

Episode 20Joseph's New Translation--Part 1

Episode 21Joseph's New Translation--Part 2

Episode 22The Letters of Joseph and Emma

Episode 23Joseph Smith the Radical

Episode 24April 6, 1830

Episode 25Kirtland Beginnings

Episode 26Visions and Blessings, Tar and Feathers

Episode 27The Kirtland Temple: An Endowment of Power

Episode 29Zion's Camp

Episode 30Crisis in Kirtland

Episode 31Joseph Smith and the Law--Part 1

Episode 32Joseph Smith and the Law--Part 2

Episode 33The Mormon War

Episode 34Liberty Jail

Episode 35Suffering and Salvationa

Episode 36The Mission of the Twelve to England

Episode 37Land, Joseph and "Justice" in Missouri

Episode 38Nauvoo Beginnings

Episode 39"I Can Do Nothing for You"

Episode 40Joseph Smith's Sermons

Episode 41Jewel on the Mississippi

Episode 42A Pearl of Great Price

Episode 43Doctrines of Salvation

Episode 44Joseph and the Relief Society

Episode 45Living by the Law

Episode 46Going International

Episode 47Gathering Clouds

Episode 48Joseph Smith for President

Episode 49Martyrdom

Episode 50Lamentation and Leadership

Episode 51Who Will Lead? Who Will Follow?

Episode 100A Television Foreword