This special edition of History of the Saints returns us to the Joseph Smith Papers. The Joseph Smith Papers have been called the single most historical project of our time. In those published volumes of all the known documents relating to the ministry of Joseph Smith the Prophet are published and explained. In this episode we feature Volume 1 of the Documents Series. In this landmark volume are published those documents from the Prophet's ministry from the earliest known in July 1828 through June 1831. Documents are critical to history, for if there are no documents there is not history, and if there is no history the people have no memory.