Dean C. Jessee
Dean C. Jessee is a Senior Research Fellow at the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History at Brigham Young University. He received a B.A. and an M.A. from Brigham Young University. The author thanks Jeff Johnson for providing some of the details on Brigham Young’s wives and family.
BYU Studies Publications
- “A Man of God and a Good Kind Father”: Brigham Young at Home
- Brigham Young's Family
- Brigham Young’s Family: The Wilderness Years
- Howard Coray's Recollections of Joseph Smith
- Joseph Knight's Recollection of Early Mormon History
- Joseph Smith's 19 July 1840 Discourse
- Lucy Mack Smith's 1829 Letter to Mary Smith Pierce
- Messages of the First Presidency, Volume 3
- New Documents and Mormon Beginnings
- Priceless Words and Fallible Memories: Joseph Smith as Seen in the Effort to Preserve His Discourses
- Revelations in Context: Joseph Smith’s Letter from Liberty Jail, March 20, 1839
- The Early Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision
- The Genesis of the Joseph Smith Papers Project(2025)
- The Historians' Corner [32:4]
- The John Taylor Nauvoo Journal: January 1845–September 1845
- The Kirtland Diary of Wilford Woodruff
- The Last Months of Mormonism in Missouri: The Albert Perry Rockwood Journal
- The Original Book of Mormon Manuscript
- The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
- The Writing of Joseph Smith's History