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In this Dialogue podcast Benjamin Park discusses “Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier.” From the Miller Eccles website:
While Nauvoo may be a familiar story to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it is largely unknown to the broader world. Kingdom of Nauvoo is the first attempt since Robert Flanders, over fifty years ago, to try and tell the compelling tale to those outside the faith as a way to better understand American history writ large. This presentation will examine how Nauvoo looks different when viewed from this larger context, and what lessons from the saga remain to be uncovered.
Benjamin E. Park received his doctorate from Cambridge University and currently teaches American religious history at Sam Houston State University. His scholarly work has appeared in over a dozen academic journals, and his first book, American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. He currently serves as co-editor, with Quincy Newell, of the Mormon Studies Review, as well as on the executive boards for the Mormon History Association and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. W.W. Norton/Liveright will publish his Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier in February, and Wiley-Blackwell will publish his Companion to American Religious History in the fall.