History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 50 Objects

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Details around the priesthood ban on African Americans

Details around the role the Church's pavilion played in the worlds fair

History on the wheat project and the beginnings of the welfare program

Details around the emergence of the largest genealogical society in the world

Details around the manifesto to end polygamy in the LDS Church

Details around the emergence of a new book of scripture in 1880

Details around the Utah War of 1857

Details around the reformation of 1856-57

Details around the creation and placement of the Deseret Stone on the Washington Monument.

Details around the creation of the Church's choir and their successes.

Details around the 1848 harvest and the challenges involved in the Salt Lake Valley

Details around the final push to Utah!

Details around the organization and trek of the famous Mormon Battalion

Details around the Mormon voyage from New York to San Francisco

Details around the Mormons expulsion from Nauvoo and the preparations for their trek west.

Details around the succession crisis after the death of the prophet Joseph Smith in 1844.

History around the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith

Details around the creation of the Nauvoo Temple Plans

Details around the beginnings of plural marriage in the Mormon Church

Details around the emergence of the Mormon Relief Society and the role the Nauvoo relief society minute book played in it.

Details around Orson Hyde's visit to Jerusalem and his dedication of the Holy Land

Details around the emergence of the ritual of baptism for the dead within the Mormon Church

Details around the creation of the Nauvoo Charter and its role in the Nauvoo period

Details around Joseph Smith's historic visit to Washington DC and meeting with the president of the United States. Also, how did the law of Common Consent come about?

Details around the day of miracles in the early Nauvoo period

Details around the Liberty Jail period. Why Joseph Smith was sent there and how the Mormons faired in Missouri.

Details around the last days for the Mormons in Missouri

Details around the history of the Kirtland Safety Society and the Mormon great apostasy

Details around the emergence of the modern day fast and testimony meeting

Details around why Mormons obey a word of wisdom and how it came about.

Details around the first missionaries to England and the emergence of the first Mormon chapel

Details around the building and dedication of the first Mormon temple in Kirtland Ohio

Details about how the Joseph Smith and the Mormons released the Doctrine and Covenants to the Church

Details around the creation and production of the first Mormon hymn book, including what Emma sacrificed to bring it about.

Details around the organization of the Mormons efforts to redeem Zion in Jackson County Missouri in 1834

Details around the mormons expulsion from Jackson County and the secret constitution that drove it

Details around the 1832 attack on Joseph Smith and the history of tarring and feathering

Details around how the Mormons landed in Independence Missouri, why they chose it as Zion and how the Plat of Zion was a blueprint for city building across the American West.

Details around the Law of Consecration. How it affected early Mormons and how it affects them today

Details around the call to gather in Kirtland Ohio.

Details around the what Moroni symbolizes to the early Mormons and the work it inspired to the American Indians

Why was Joseph Smith arrested in June of 1830? What did the arrest symbolize and mean for the growing Church? Exploring the details around that arrest, the trial and the symbolism of it all.

Details around the first handbook in the Mormon Church. How it was created, used, lost and than rediscovered and their role in the organization of the Mormon Church

Details around the printing of the first copies of the Book of Mormon and it's role in the Church

Details around the Mormon restoration of the priesthood and it's role in the history of the Mormon Church

Details around what happened to the 116 pages and what they may have contained.

Details and history around the Urim and Thummim and it's role in the Mormon Church

Details around how Joseph Smith got the gold plates, how he used them and where they went.

Details around the first object in the history of the Mormon Church, the seer stone