Church History
Doctrine and Covenants 19


Doctrine and Covenants Historical Resources: Doctrine and Covenants 19, Doctrine and Covenants Historical Resources (2025)

Doctrine and Covenants 19, Doctrine and Covenants Historical Resources

Doctrine and Covenants 19

Historical Background

Revelations in Context

Essays on the background of each revelation

The Contributions of Martin Harris

D&C 3, 5, 10, 17, 19

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Larges leather wallet with strap closure.

To pay the printer for the first 5,000 copies of the Book of Mormon, Martin Harris mortgaged his home and farm for $3,000. Harris family tradition states that Martin carried that sum of money to the printer in this wallet. Wallet, owned by Martin Harris, ca. 1830, leather, Church History Museum.

Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days

Narrative history of events surrounding the revelations

Volume 1, Chapter 8

The Rise of the Church of Christ

People

Biographical facts and historical images of individuals associated with the revelations

Places

Maps and information about places associated with the revelations from The Joseph Smith Papers, Historic Sites, and other helpful sources

Events

Timeline placing each revelation in the context of key events in the Church’s first century

View the chronology

Topics

Essays on subjects related to the revelations

Critics of the Book of Mormon

Printing and Publishing the Book of Mormon

Witnesses of the Book of Mormon

Sources

Historical background and the earliest version of each section of the Doctrine and Covenants, as published in The Joseph Smith Papers and the Church History Library catalog

Revelation, circa Summer 1829 [D&C 19]

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