Results for "Park, Benjamin E."

New Yorker — "The Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far" The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1... Read More about American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

Best Book Award • Mormon History Association A brilliant young historian excavates the brief life of a lost Mormon city, uncovering a “grand, underappreciated saga in American history” (Wall Street Journal). In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the fou... Read More about Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier

America was born in an age of political revolution throughout the Atlantic world, a period when the very definition of 'nation' was transforming. Benjamin E. Park traces how Americans imagined novel forms of nationality during the country's first five decades within the context of European discussio... Read More about American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833

Best Book Award • Mormon History Association An extraordinary story of faith and violence in nineteenth-century America, based on previously confidential documents from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, treated as fringe ... Read More about Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier

Few lives have been as consequential for modern Mormonism as D. Michael Quinn. The son of a Mexican immigrant father and a California Mormon mother, Quinn became an influential participant in the New Mormon History movement. Much of his scholarly work remains classic in the field. Yet while he was p... Read More about DNA Mormon: Perspectives on the Legacy of Historian D. Michael Quinn