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• Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, a work by author Sally Denton
• Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins by Grant Palmer
• Response to claims made in "Answering Mormon Scholars" (Vol. 1) by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
• Response to claims made in "Answering Mormon Scholars" (Vol. 2) by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
• Response to claims made in "Archaeology and the Book of Mormon" by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
• Response to claims made in Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism by Richard Abanes
• Response to claims made in "Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows" by Will Bagley
• Response to claims made in "Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique" by Dan Vogel
• Response to claims made in "By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri" by Charles Larson
• Response to claims made in Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
• Response to claims made in Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism by Ed Decker
• Response to claims made in Deconstructing Mormonism by Thomas Riskas
• Response to claims made in Do Christians Believe in Three Gods by RBC Ministries
• Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View by D. Michael Quinn
• Review of claims made in In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
• Response to claims made in "Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church" by Simon G. Southerton
• Response to claims made in "Mormonism 101" by Bill McKeever and Eric Johnson
• Response to claims made in Mormonism: Shadow or Reality by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
• Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked by R. Philip Roberts
• Response to claims made in Mormonism Unvailed by Eber D. Howe
• Response to Mormon America: The Power and the Promise, a work by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling
• Response to claims made in Nauvoo Polygamy: "... but we called it celestial marriage" by George D. Smith
• Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn Brodie
• Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods by Richard Abanes
• Response to claims made in Passing the Heavenly Gift by Denver C. Snuffer
• Response to claims made in Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example by D. Michael Quinn
• Studies of the Book of Mormon by B.H. Roberts
• Response to the "Book of Lehi" by Christopher Marc Nemelka
• Response to claims made in The Changing World of Mormonism by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
• Response to claims made in The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism by Normal L. Geisler
• Response to claims made in The God Makers: A Shocking Exposé of What the Mormon Church REALLY Believes by Ed Decker and Dave Hunt
• Response to claims made in The Mysteries of Godliness by David John Buerger
• Notes on The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: A Complete Edition
• Response to claims made in The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised) by Walter Martin, Hank Hanegraaf
• Response to claims made in The Lion of the Lord by Stanley P. Hirshon
• Response to claims made in The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power by D. Michael Quinn
• Response to claims made in The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
• Response to claims made in Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
• A review of claims made in "Understanding Mormon Disbelief" by the Open Stories Foundation
• Response to claims made in Visions of Glory by John Pontius

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Faith promoting publications

Rough Stone Rolling

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Articles about Latter-day Saint history

Overview	Latter-day Saint history Approaching history Responding to criticisms about Church history Primary source documents of early Church history
Accuracy of Church History	Alleged whitewashing of Church history Alleged whitewashing of polygamy in Church history Alleged hiding of facts in Church history History scholars and Church discipline Accuracy of Church art History of the Church (6-volume history) Lucy Mack Smith's biography of Joseph Smith Histories written by scholars
Forgeries and folklore	Mark Hofmann Kinderhook Plates The Sealed Book of Mormon by Mauricio Berger The Mentinah Papers The Ang Aklatan The Bat Creek Stone The Burrows Cave artifacts Mormon urban legends or folklore

Publications

These are texts of relevance to Church history and apologetics. They are not all "endorsed" by FAIR; they can sometimes be important for understanding where an issue or discussion has come from, however.

Conference Reports

• Conference Reports

Newspapers and Journals

• Improvement Era index: Published from 1897 to 1970, the Improvement Era was the Church's primary magazine and was the precursor to the Ensign and Liahona magazines.

• The Evening and the Morning Star (1832–1834): This newspaper was the Church's first newspaper and was published in Missouri and then in Kirtland.

• Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate (1834–1837): This newspaper was published in Kirtland, Ohio between October 1834 and September 1837. It was the successor to The Evening and the Morning Star and the predecessor to the Elders' Journal.

• Elders' Journal of the Church of Latter Day Saints (1837–1838): This newspaper was published in Kirtland, Ohio, and then Far West, Missouri. It was the successor to the Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate and was eventually replaced by the Times and Seasons.

• Times and Seasons (1839–1846): This newspaper was published in Nauvoo, Illinois between November 1839 and February 1846. It was the successor to the Elders' Journal.

• Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star: This newspaper was the Church's primary newspaper in Great Britain.

Journal of Discourses

Summary: The Journal of Discourses consists of 26 volumes of discourses, lessons, and essays largely from early leaders of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Signature Books

• Louis Midgley, "The Signature Books Saga," FARMS Review 16/1 (2004): 361–406. off-site