Don Bradley

Don Bradley is a historian specializing in the beginnings of the Latter-day Saint Restoration. He completed a B.A. in History at BYU and an M.A. in History at Utah State. Don performed an internship with the Joseph Smith Papers Project, and was the primary researcher for Brian C. Hales's Joseph Smith’s Polygamy series. He has published on the translation of the Book of Mormon, plural marriage before Nauvoo, Joseph Smith’s “grand fundamental principles of Mormonism,” the First Vision, and the Book of Mormon's lost pages. He won the 2021 Mormon History Association Best Article Award for his work on the Kinderhook plates and is currently a Joseph Smith historian with Scripture Central.