Books

• Harper, Steven C. (2005). Joseph the Seer. Provo, UT: Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9773879-0-9.
• —— (2006). Promised Land: Penn's Holy Experiment, the Walking Purchase, and the Dispossession of Delawares, 1600-1763. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press. ISBN 0-934223-77-7.
• —— (2007). The Word of Wisdom. Setting the Record Straight. Orem, UT: Millennial Press. ISBN 978-1-932597-43-1.
• —— (2008). Making Sense of the Doctrine and Covenants: A Guided Tour Through Modern Revelation. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book. ISBN 978-1-59038-921-8.
• Smith, Joseph Jr. (2009). Harper, Steven C.; Jensen, Robin Scott; Woodford, Robert J. (eds.). Revelations and Translations: Manuscript Revelation Books. The Joseph Smith Papers (Facsimile ed.). Salt Lake City: Church Historian's Press. ISBN 978-1-57008-850-6.
• Harper, Steven C. (2019). First Vision: Memory and Mormon Origins. New York City: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-932947-2.

Harper has also been co-editor of Prelude to the Restoration: Apostasy to the Restored Church with Fred E. Woods, Andrew H. Hedges, Patty Smith and Thomas R. Valletta. In 2010 Preserving the History of the Latter-day Saints that he co-edited with Richard E. Turley, Jr. was published. In 2012 Exploring the First Vision that he co-edited with Samuel Alonzo Dodge. In 2008 Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The Pacific Isles that Harper co-edited with Fred E. Woods, Reid L. Neilson, Craig K. Manscill and Mary Jane Woodger was published.

Articles

• Harper, Steven C. (Spring 2000). "The Restoration of Mormonism to Erie County, Pennsylvania" (PDF). Mormon Historical Studies. 1 (1): 3–19.
• —— (Winter 2000). "Infallible Proofs, Both Human and Divine: The Persuasiveness of Mormonism for Early Converts". Religion and American Culture. 10 (1): 99–118. doi:10.1525/rac.2000.10.1.03a00040.
• —— (2002). "Drawing Lessons From a Life: William McLellin, 1831-1832". Lives of the Saints: Writing Mormon Biography and Autobiography. Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History.
• —— (2002). "Van Wagoner's Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Biographical Excess". FARMS Review. 14 (1): 261–74.
• —— (2003). "Nothing Less Than Miraculous: The First Decade of Mormonism in Mongolia". BYU Studies. 42 (1): 19–49.
• —— (2003). "'Pentecost Continued': A Contemporary Account of the Kirtland Temple". BYU Studies. 42 (2): 5–22.
• —— (2003). "Trustworthy History?". FARMS Review. 15 (2): 273–308.
• —— (2004). "Delawares and Pennsylvanians After the Walking Purchase". Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 0-271-02384-8.
• —— (2004). "Elizabeth Harris". New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
• —— (2004). "Endowed with Power" (PDF). The Religious Educator. 5 (2).^{[permanent dead link]}
• —— (2004). "Thomas Müntzer and the Radical Reformation". Prelude to the Restoration, 33rd Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book. pp. 59–69. ISBN 1-59038-329-X.
• —— (2005). "On the Eve of the First Vision". In Susan Easton Black; Andrew C. Skinner (eds.). Joseph: Exploring the Life and Ministry of the Prophet. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book. ISBN 1-59038-471-7.
• —— (2005). "'Assemble Together at the Ohio'". In Susan Easton Black; Andrew C. Skinner (eds.). Joseph: Exploring the Life and Ministry of the Prophet. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book. ISBN 1-59038-471-7.
• ——; Milton V. Backman, Jr. (Spring 2005). "History is People, Places, Sources, and Stories: An Interview with Milton V. Backman Jr" (PDF). Mormon Historical Studies. 6 (1): 99–122.
• —— (2005). "'A Pentecost and Endowment Indeed': Six Eyewitness Accounts of the Kirtland Temple Experience". In John W. Welch; Erick B. Carlson (eds.). Opening the Heavens: Accounts of Divine Manifestations, 1820–1844. Provo and Salt Lake City: Brigham Young University Press and Deseret Book. pp. 327–71. ISBN 0-8425-2607-2. Archived from the original on 2010-06-26. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
• ——; Richard Neitzel Holzapfel (2006). "'This is My Testimony, Spoken by Myself Into a Talking Machine': Wilford Woodruff's 1897 Statement in Stereo". BYU Studies. 45 (2): 112–16. Archived from the original on 2010-04-08.
• —— (2006). ""Every Man Walketh in His Own Way": Individualism, Revelation, and Authority in the Ohio Period". In Guy L. Dorius; Manscill; Craig James Ostler (eds.). Ohio and Upper Canada. Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center. pp. 39–52. ISBN 0-8425-2653-6.
• —— (Summer 2006). "'Dictated by Christ': Joseph Smith and the Politics of Revelation". Journal of the Early Republic. 26 (2): 275–304. doi:10.1353/jer.2006.0026. S2CID 144432177.
• ——; Mark B. Nelson (2006). "The Imprisonment of Martin Harris in 1833". BYU Studies. 45 (4): 113–19. Archived from the original on 2011-06-09.
• ——; Jordan Watkins (2007). "'It Seems That All Nature Mourns': Sally Randall's Response to the Murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith". BYU Studies. 46 (1): 95–100. Archived from the original on 2011-06-09.
• —— (2007). "Mormon Authority and Identity in America". In Trepanier, Lee (ed.). Democracy, Pluralism, and Utah. Cedar City: Southern Utah University Press. ISBN 978-0-935615-22-7.
• —— (2008). "'All Things Are the Lord's': The Law of Consecration in the Doctrine and Covenants". In Andrew H. Hedges; J. Spencer Fluhman; Alonzo L. Gaskill (eds.). The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context: The 37th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center. pp. 212–28. ISBN 978-1-60641-015-8. Archived from the original on 2010-03-13. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
• —— (2008). "The Rich Man, Lazarus, and Doctrine & Covenants 104:18". BYU Studies. 47 (4): 51–54. Archived from the original on 2011-06-09.
• —— (Fall 2008). "'Overwhelmingly Democratic': Cultural Identity in Jackson County, Missouri, 1827-1833". Mormon Historical Studies. 9 (2): 1–16.
• —— (2009). "Oliver Cowdery as Second Witness of Priesthood Restoration". In Alexander L. Baugh (ed.). Days Never to be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery (PDF). Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University and Deseret Book. pp. 73–90. ISBN 978-0-8425-2742-2.^{[permanent dead link]}

• BYU faculty website
• Harper's publications with the Maxwell Institute
• Steven C. Harper at IMDb
• Goodreads review of Joseph the Seer
• Biography at Joseph Smith Papers Project website (accessed May 11, 2012)