“Doctrine and Covenants Historical Resources: Doctrine and Covenants 51–57,” Doctrine and Covenants Historical Resources (2025)
“Doctrine and Covenants 51–57,” Doctrine and Covenants Historical Resources
Doctrine and Covenants 51–57
Site of Leman Copley’s farm, Thompson, Ohio, USA, where a group of Latter-day Saints lived for a short time.
Historical Background
Revelations in Context
Essays on the background of each revelation
Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days
Narrative history of events surrounding the revelations
Volume 1, Chapter 12
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
Topics
Essays on subjects related to the revelations
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, 20 May 1831 [D&C 51]
Revelation, 6 June 1831 [D&C 52]
Revelation, 8 June 1831 [D&C 53]
Revelation, 10 June 1831 [D&C 54]
Revelation, 14 June 1831 [D&C 55]
Revelation, 15 June 1831 [D&C 56]
Revelation, 20 July 1831 [D&C 57]
Conference Minutes, 3 June 1831
Building the Church in the 1830s was a temporal endeavor as well as a spiritual one. In this idealized depiction, a young family completes spring plowing in preparation for a bountiful harvest. John Leo Fairbanks, Life Is the Reward of Love and Labor, ca. 1920, oil on canvas, Church History Museum.