---
title: History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I
authors:
  - Roberts, B. H.
published: "1902"
language: en
type: index
source:
  url: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47091
  identifier: gutenberg-47091
  transcription: "Project Gutenberg eBook #47091 (Mormon Texts Project proofreading of the 1902 edition). The Gutenberg header, license and transcriber notes are not included."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1902 US publication (Salt Lake City, Deseret News; introduction and notes by B. H. Roberts); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47091
  publication_year: 1902
  note: Period I only (volumes 1 to 6). Period II (volume 7, 1932, and later volumes) is not public domain and is not included.
---

# History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I

Six volumes (1902 to 1912) of Joseph Smith's history, covering his life from his birth in 1805 to his death in 1844, compiled and edited by B. H. Roberts, a Mormon Church leader and historian, from Smith's manuscript history, which clerks and church historians wrote in his name, with an introduction, marginal notes and footnotes by Roberts.

Web: https://library.mrm.org/history-of-the-church
JSON: https://library.mrm.org/history-of-the-church.json

## Parts

- [Volume 1](https://library.mrm.org/history-of-the-church/1.md) — 40 section(s)
- [Volume 2](https://library.mrm.org/history-of-the-church/2.md) — 40 section(s)
- [Volume 3](https://library.mrm.org/history-of-the-church/3.md) — 33 section(s)
- [Volume 4](https://library.mrm.org/history-of-the-church/4.md) — 39 section(s)
- [Volume 5](https://library.mrm.org/history-of-the-church/5.md) — 32 section(s)
- [Volume 6](https://library.mrm.org/history-of-the-church/6.md) — 38 section(s)