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February 18, 2020February 19, 2020

Historian tackles politics, polygamy, and Joseph Smith in ‘Kingdom of Navuoo’

Sponsored by BYU Studies— Join historian Benjamin E. Park as he discusses his latest book, Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier (Liverlight, 2020).

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February 27, 2018September 3, 2018

10 questions with Matthew J. Grow and R. Eric Smith

In January 2018, I had the privilege to interview two historians associated with the Joseph Smith Papers Project: Matthew J. Grow and R. Eric Smith. Both scholars served as editors for the 2017 publication, “The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History.”

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