Politicking with the Saints: On Reading Benjamin Park’s Kingdom of Nauvoo Benjamin E. Park, Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
April 24, 2021[…] the political frictions that Smith’s destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor raised in Nauvoo and beyond. Though the paper was originally published, Park notes, in an effort to illuminate the prophet’s polygamous relations, its accusations […]