Continuing our series on deaths that changed history, we look at the death of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism and one of the most fascinating religious figures in American history. We'll follow his life from a New England that swarmed with tent revivals and utopian preachers to persecution in Missouri, the rise of the church for a small handful to thousands of follows, and finally to his death at the hands of a mob at the jailhouse in Carthage, Illinois.

My primary source for this episode is "No Man Knows My History" by Fawn M. Brodie.

Music in this episode is courtesy of musopen.org

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