Assigned Histories

• Documents (3939)

  Letters, revelations, reports of discourses, minutes, etc.

• Journals (32)

  Journals and diaries

• Administrative Records (1693)

  Minutes and other official records

• Revelations and Translations (60)

  Early manuscript and printed versions of scriptural works

• Histories (52)

  Early histories and draft material for the later History of the Church

• Legal Records (1812)

  Court papers

• Financial Records (389)

  Deeds, promissory notes, invoices, agreements, daybooks, ledgers, etc.

Related Resources

• Other Contemporary Papers

  Selected papers of Joseph Smith's contemporaries

• Calendar of Documents

  Chronological list of all known Joseph Smith documents, including multiple versions of documents

• Comprehensive Works Cited

  List of all sources cited on the Joseph Smith Papers website

Images and Transcripts

• Joseph Smith Histories (7)
• Assigned Histories (11)
• History, 1838–1856 (Manuscript History of the Church) (31)
• Other Histories (3)

Related Materials

• Joseph Smith’s Historical Enterprise
• The Histories of Joseph Smith, 1832–1844
• Histories Initiated by Assignment of Joseph Smith, 1831–1847
• Introduction to History, 1838–1856 (Manuscript History of the Church)
• Introduction to History Drafts, 1838–1842
• Introduction to History Drafts, 1844–1856
• Essay on Sources Cited in Histories, Volume 1
• Essay on Sources Cited in Histories, Volume 2
• Editorial Method

• John Whitmer, History, 1831–circa 1847
• William W. Phelps, “Rise and Progress of the Church of Christ,” April 1833
• John Corrill, A Brief History of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1839
• “A History, of the Persecution, of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter Day Saints in Missouri,” December 1839–October 1840

• Sources for Assigned Histories (7)