Books
First Vision: Memory and Mormon Origins
Joseph Smith's First Vision : A Guide to the Historical Accounts
Making Sense of the Doctrine and Covenants
The Word of Wisdom: Setting the Record Straight
Documentary Editions
Co-editor, Joseph Smith Papers: Documents, volume 5
Co-editor, Joseph Smith Papers, Revelations and Translations: Manuscript Revelation Books
Articles and Chapters
Thomas Müntzer and the Radical Reformation
A Seeker's Guide to the Historical Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision
Evaluating Three Arguments against Joseph Smith’s First Vision
Suspicion or Trust: Reading the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision
Forming A Collective Memory of the First Vision from An Eye of Faith
The Probation of a Teenage Seer: Joseph Smith’s Early Experiences with Moroni
Joseph Smith and Hearty Repentance
Evaluating the Book of Mormon Witnesses
Peter and the Restored Priesthood
Oliver Cowdery as Second Witness of Priesthood Restoration
"That They Might Come to Understanding": Revelation as Process
"All Things are the Lord's": The Law of Consecration in the Doctrine and Covenants
“It Maketh My Bones to Quake”: Teaching Doctrine and Covenants 85
Document Editing: Helping Students Quench Their Thirst
The Doctrine and Covenants: A Roundtable Discussion, Part 1
The Doctrine and Covenants: A Roundtable Discussion, Part 2
Joseph Smith and the Kirtland Temple, 1836
"Every Man Walketh in His Own Way": Individualism, Revelation, and Authority in the Ohio Period
The Map that Reveals the Deception of the 1737 Walking Purchase
Making History: Documenting the 1737 Walking Purchase
The Making of Modern Scripture: Latter-day Saints and the Book of Commandments and Revelations
Historical Head Notes and the Index of Contents in the Book of Commandments and Revelations
‘Overwhelmingly Democratic’: Cultural Identity in Jackson County, Missouri 1827-1833
The Rich Man, Lazarus, and Doctrine and Covenants 104:18
Mormon Authority and Identity in America
Dictated by Christ: Joseph Smith and the Politics of Revelation
Oliver Cowdery and the Kirtland Temple Experience
‘A Pentecost and Endowment Indeed’: Six Eyewitness Accounts of the Kirtland Temple
On the Eve of the First Vision
Assemble Together at the Ohio
‘No More Brothers and Friends’: Cultural Identities in the Wake of the Walking Purchase
‘Pentecost Continued’: A Contemporary Account of the Kirtland Temple
Nothing Less Than Miraculous’: The First Decade of Mormonism in Mongolia
Drawing Lessons From a Life: William McLellin 1831-1832
The Restoration of Mormonism in Erie County, Pennsylvania, 1830-1833
Infallible Proofs Both Human and Divine: The Persuasiveness of Mormonism for Early Converts (Juanita Brooks Award)
Mormon Missionaries in America’s Religious Marketplace: Proselyting in the 1830s (T. Edgar Lyon Award)
By No Means Men of Weak Minds: The Gullible Bumpkin Thesis and the First Mormons
Joseph Smith’s Early Experiences with Revelation
The First Vision: A Narrative from Joseph Smith’s Accounts
‘The Tithing of My People’: D&C 119-120
Freemasonry and the Latter-day Saint Temple Endowment Ceremony
‘Ministerial Tramps’: Southern States Missionaries, 1920-1930
Reviews & Review Essays
Trustworthy History?: Grant H. Palmer’s An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins
A Portrait of Biographical Excess: Richard S. Van Wagoner’s Sidney Rigdon
Review of Terryl L. Givens, The Viper on the Hearth (New York: Oxford, 1997), Journal of Mormon History 29:2 (1999)
Co-edited books
Prelude to the Restoration: Apostasy to the Restored Church
Preserving the History of the Latter-day Saints
Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The Pacific Isles