The fifteenth and final volume in the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers features 105 Joseph Smith documents produced from 16 May through 28 June 1844, including correspondence, accounts of his discourses, administrative minutes, municipal documents, military orders, and legal papers. Most of these documents relate to the events leading up to the murders of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum. Others demonstrate the variety of activities and responsibilities that characterized the final six weeks of Joseph Smith’s life. These documents provide a solid foundation for scholars and others to access and assess Smith’s history. Brett D. Dowdle is a historian for the Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Adam H. Petty is a historian and documentary editor with the Joseph Smith Papers. He holds a PhD and MA in history from the University of Alabama and a BA in history from Brigham Young University. Adam is the author of The Battle of the Wilderness in Myth and Memory: Reconsidering Virginia’s Most Notorious Civil War Battlefield (Louisiana State University Press, 2019). He has also published articles in the Alabama Review, Civil War History , and the Journal of Military History and essays in Know Brother Joseph: New Perspectives on Joseph Smith’s Life and Character and American Discord: The Republic and Its People in the Civil War Era. Adam specializes in nineteenth-century American history and is interested in the American Civil War, military history, Latin American history, and Latter-day Saint history. He has contributed to volumes 14 and 15 of the Joseph Smith Papers Documents series and is currently working on a documentary editing project focused on Brigham Young’s correspondence. Elizabeth Kuehn is a historian for the Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Matthew C. Godfrey is a general editor and the managing historian of the Joseph Smith Papers, and is a member of the editorial board. He holds a PhD in American and public history from Washington State University. Before joining the project, he worked for eight years at Historical Research Associates, a historical and archeological consulting firm headquartered in Missoula, Montana, serving as president of the company from 2008 to 2010. He is the author of Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1921 (2007), which was a co-winner of the Mormon History Association’s Smith-Petit Award for Best First Book. He has also published articles in Agricultural History and Pacific Northwest Quarterly and has presented papers at conferences of the Mormon History Association, the National Council on Public History, the American Society for Environmental History, and the Western History Association, among other organizations.