Joseph Smith's birthday today matters to Latter-day Saints e

Latter-day Saints don’t have to be ‘nervous’ about their history, Richard Bushman and other scholars say on the anniversary of Joseph Smith’s birth, and in the wake of over 18,000 pages of primary source documents about Joseph Smith being made freely available online.

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