After 22 years of documenting, filing, writing and editing, the historians and researchers behind The Joseph Smith Papers published the final volume of their groundbreaking project Tuesday on the 179th anniversary of the church founder’s death.
. “Documents Volume 15,” released Tuesday, contains 104 records that include the official announcement of Smith’s slaying in 1844 and the last six weeks of his life.“Future historians may well call The Joseph Smith Papers the most important church-sponsored historical project of the 21st century,”, a history professor at Sam Houston State University, wrote in an email.
“I am very much resigned to my lot,” he wrote, “knowing I am justified and have done the best that could be done.” “This is the monolith,” Howcroft said. “It’s made me more persistent. There’s something to be said for the type of tenacity that creates in oneself.”
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