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Benjamin E. Park

Author of Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier

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Benjamin E. Park is an assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University. The author of American Nationalisms, he has written for the Washington Post, Newsweek, and the Houston Chronicle, and lives in Conroe, Texas.

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The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History (2017) — Contributor — 21 copies, 1 review
Preserving the History of the Latter-day Saints (2010) — Contributor — 9 copies
Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia (2010) — Contributor — 7 copies
Contingent Citizens: Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture (2020) — Contributor — 7 copies
Perspectives on Mormon Theology: Apologetics (2017) — Contributor — 7 copies
Mormon women's history : beyond biography (2017) — Contributor — 5 copies
Journal of Mormon History Winter 2010 (Volume 36 No. 1) (2010) — Contributor — 4 copies
Journal of Mormon History - Vol. 37, No. 1, Winter 2011 (2011) — Contributor — 4 copies
Journal of Mormon History - Volume 41, No. 4 (October 2015) (2015) — Contributor — 3 copies
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender (Routledge Handbooks in Religion) (2020) — Contributor — 3 copies
Journal of Mormon History - Vol. 38, No. 1, Winter 2012 (2012) — Contributor — 3 copies
Journal of Mormon History - Vol. 39, No. 2, Spring 2013 (2013) — Contributor — 3 copies
BYU Studies Quarterly - Volume 56, Number 2 (2017) (2017) — Contributor — 2 copies
BYU Studies Vol. 60 No. 1, 2021 (2021) — Contributor — 2 copies
Journal of Mormon History - Vol. 38, No. 3, Summer 2012 (2012) — Contributor — 2 copies
Journal of Mormon History - Vol. 39, No. 1, Winter 2013 (2013) — Contributor — 2 copies
Journal of Mormon History - Volume 42, No. 3 (July 2016) (2016) — Contributor — 2 copies
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 45, Number 2 (Summer 2012) (2012) — Contributor — 1 copy
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 45, Number 3 (Fall 2012) (2012) — Contributor — 1 copy
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 43, Number 2 (Summer 2010) (2010) — Contributor — 1 copy
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 46, Number 3 (Fall 2013) (2013) — Contributor — 1 copy
Mormon Historical Studies - Vol. 11, No. 2 (Fall 2010) (2010) — Contributor — 1 copy
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 50, Number 1 (Spring 2017) (2017) — Contributor — 1 copy
Mormon Historical Studies - Vol. 12, No. 2 (Fall 2011) (2011) — Contributor — 1 copy
Journal of Mormon History - Volume 45, No. 1 (January 2019) (2019) — Contributor — 1 copy
Mormon Historical Studies - Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2013) (2013) — Contributor — 1 copy
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 53, Number 3 (Fall 2020) (2020) — Contributor — 1 copy
Journal of Mormon History - Volume 47, No. 2 (April 2021) (2021) — Contributor — 1 copy
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 44, Number 2 (Summer 2011) (2011) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious… by Benjamin E. Park
Fascinating, detailed, and well researched.
 
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JBD1 | 9 other reviews | Sep 12, 2024 |
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism by Benjamin E. Park
Wow I learned so much. I think this is the first book about mormonism that talked about the indian placement program too.
 
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Moshepit20 | Aug 8, 2024 |
Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious… by Benjamin E. Park
This book ignores previous significant work.

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/a-uni-dimensional-picture-of-a-multi-f...
“ first, ... a unilateral, highly political rendering of Nauvoo at the expense of ...;
2, the devaluation of the revelatory or the spiritual, missing the point that in the end, Nauvoo history was religious, not fundamentally political; and
3, if not a misreading of newly- obtained manuscript material, certainly an out-siz”… (more)
 
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bread2u | 9 other reviews | May 15, 2024 |
Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious…
I was most surprised at how militant the Mormons were in Illinois -- raising their own militia, using their municipal court to nullify arrest warrants from other towns and states, planning to take over Texas and colonize other parts of the continent using converts from Europe. The book also describes the rise of plural marriage, and, to a non-believer at least, it's hard to see this as anything other than Joseph Smith exploiting his position as prophet.
 
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Castinet | 9 other reviews | Dec 11, 2022 |
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