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

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

By: Benjamin E. Park

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 founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On the banks of the Mississippi in Illinois, the early Mormons built a religious utopia, establishing their own army and writing their own constitution. For those offenses and others—including the introduction of polygamy, which was bitterly opposed by Emma Smith, the iron-willed first wife of Joseph Smith—the surrounding population violently ejected the Mormons, sending them on their flight to Utah. Throughout his absorbing chronicle, Park shows how the Mormons of Nauvoo were representative of their era, and in doing so elevates Mormon history into the American mainstream.

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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

By: Benjamin E. Park

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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

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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 1830 in the so-called “burned-over district” of upstate New York, which was producing seers and prophets daily. Most of the new creeds flamed out; Smith’s would endure, becoming the most significant homegrown religion in American history. How Mormonism succeeded is the story told by historian Benjamin E. Park in American Zion. Drawing on sources that have become available only in the last two decades, Park presents a fresh, sweeping account of the Latter-day Saints: from the flight to Utah Territory in 1847 to the public renunciation of polygamy in 1890; from the Mormon leadership’s forging of an alliance with the Republican Party in the wake of the New Deal to the “Mormon moment” of 2012, which saw the premiere of The Book of Mormon musical and the presidential candidacy of Mitt Romney; and beyond. In the twentieth century, Park shows, Mormons began to move ever closer to the center of American life, shaping culture, politics, and law along the way. But Park’s epic isn’t rooted in triumphalism. It turns out that the image of complete obedience to a single, earthly prophet—an image spread by Mormons and non-Mormons alike—is misleading. In fact, Mormonism has always been defined by internal conflict. Joseph Smith’s wife, Emma, inaugurated a legacy of feminist agitation over gender roles. Black believers petitioned for belonging even after a racial policy was instituted in the 1850s that barred them from priesthood ordination and temple ordinances (a restriction that remained in place until 1978). Indigenous and Hispanic saints—the latter represent a large portion of new converts today—have likewise labored to exist within a community that long called them “Lamanites,” a term that reflected White-centered theologies. Today, battles over sexuality and gender have riven the Church anew, as gay and trans saints have launched their own fight for acceptance. A definitive, character-driven work of history, American Zion is essential to any understanding of the Mormon past, present, and future. But its lessons extend beyond the faith: as Park puts it, the Mormon story is the American story.

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American Nationalisms

Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783–1833

By: Benjamin E. Park

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American Nationalisms

Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783–1833

By: Benjamin E. Park

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 discussions taking place at the same time. Focusing on three case studies - Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina - Park examines the developing practices of nationalism in three specific contexts. He argues for a more elastic connection between nationalism and the nation-state by demonstrating that ideas concerning political and cultural allegiance to a federal body developed in different ways and at different rates throughout the nation. American Nationalisms explores how ideas of nationality permeated political disputes, religious revivals, patriotic festivals, slavery debates, and even literature.

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Cambridge University Press

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

By: Benjamin E. Park

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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

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Introduction to African American Studies

Transdisciplinary Approaches and Implications

By: Talmadge Anderson,James Benjamin Stewart

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Introduction to African American Studies

Transdisciplinary Approaches and Implications

By: Talmadge Anderson,James Benjamin Stewart

There is an ongoing debate as to whether African American Studies is a discipline, or multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary field. Some scholars assert that African American Studies use a well-defined common approach in examining history, politics, and the family in the same way as scholars in the disciplines of economics, sociology, and political science. Other scholars consider African American Studies multidisciplinary, a field somewhat comparable to the field of education in which scholars employ a variety of disciplinary lenses-be they anthropological, psychological, historical, etc., --to study the African world experience. In this model the boundaries between traditional disciplines are accepted, and researches in African American Studies simply conduct discipline based an analysis of particular topics. Finally, another group of scholars insists that African American Studies is interdisciplinary, an enterprise that generates distinctive analyses by combining perspectives from d

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Black Classic Press

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1580730396

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Race-ethnicity and Society

By: Benjamin Bernard Ringer,Elinor R. Lawless

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Race-ethnicity and Society

By: Benjamin Bernard Ringer,Elinor R. Lawless

Benjamin Ringer and Elinor Lawless argue that the treatment of racial minorities in America has been qualitatively different from that experienced by white immigrants; that racism is not a mere aberration in American society -- largely confined to the South -- but built into the very foundations of the society.

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0415900344

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The Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796–1810

By: Benjamin Hawkins

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The Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796–1810

By: Benjamin Hawkins

The Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins provides a comprehensive collection of the most important sources on the late historic Creek Indians and their environment.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817350403

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Point-of-Care Testing of COVID-19

Current Status, Clinical Impact, and Future Therapeutic Perspectives

By: Abilash Gangula,Brandon Kim,Benjamin Casey,Allison Hamill,Hariharan Regunath,Anandhi Upendran

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Point-of-Care Testing of COVID-19

Current Status, Clinical Impact, and Future Therapeutic Perspectives

By: Abilash Gangula,Brandon Kim,Benjamin Casey,Allison Hamill,Hariharan Regunath,Anandhi Upendran

This book highlights the role of point-of-care (POC) testing in the effective management of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with an in-depth focus on the recent developments in the field, existing gaps, and future directions. POC tests are of utmost importance as they facilitate rapid and decentralized testing without much instrumentation and technical expertise. The book describes the current status of POC COVID-19 testing in three broad categories: Molecular, antigen, and antibody. The advantages, limitations, and adaption of each of the POC tests are reviewed while highlighting their clinical impact in real-world settings. The role of POC testing for COVID-19 screening, diagnosis, and surveillance has been emphasized. The subtle difference between POC and at-home tests is discussed while elaborating on the necessity for the latter for enhancing clinical impacts. A spotlight on the influence of variants on the performance of POC-COVID-19 tests is provided. The consideration of clinical implications of POC testing in hospitals with regards to improving therapeutic options, patient flow, enhancing the infection control measures, and early recruitment of patients into clinical trials is explained. Finally, the future perspectives that will aid the research community in the development of POC tests for COVID-19 or any infectious disease, in general, are presented. Overall, we believe this book can benefit the research community as it (i) presents a comprehensive understanding of current COVID-19 POC testing methods (ii) highlights features required to transform the current tests developed during the past year as POC diagnostics, and (iii) provides insights to address the unmet challenges in the field.

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Springer Nature

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9811949573

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The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot

The Fort Stevens Story

By: Benjamin Franklin Cooling

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The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot

The Fort Stevens Story

By: Benjamin Franklin Cooling

The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot: The Fort Stevens Story recounts the story of President Abraham Lincoln’s role in the Battle of Fort Stevens in July 1864. This engagement stands apart in American history as the only time a sitting American president came under enemy fire while in office. In this new study of this overlooked moment in American history, Cooling poses a troubling question: What if Lincoln had been shot and killed during this short battle, nine months prior to his death by John Wilkes Booth’s hand in Ford's Theater? A potential pivotal moment in the Civil War, the Battle of Fort Stevens could have changed—with Lincoln's demise—the course of American history. The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot, however, is more than a meditation on an alternate history of the United States. It is also a close study of the attempt by Confederate general Jubal Early to capture Washington, DC, to remove Lincoln and the Union government from power, and to turn the tide of the Civil War in the South's favor. The dramatic events of this attempt to capture Washington—and the president with it—unfold in stunning detail as Cooling taps fresh documentary sources and offers a new interpretation of this story of the defense of the nation’s capital. Commemorating this largely forgotten and under-appreciated chapter in the study of Lincoln and the Civil War, The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot is a fascinating look at this potential turning point in American history.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810886235

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American Nationalisms

Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783–1833

By: Benjamin E. Park

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American Nationalisms

Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783–1833

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Book's by Benjamin E. Park

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

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

American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

American Nationalisms

American Nationalisms

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

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

American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

Introduction to African American Studies

Introduction to African American Studies

Race-ethnicity and Society

Race-ethnicity and Society

The Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796–1810

The Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796–1810

Point-of-Care Testing of COVID-19

Point-of-Care Testing of COVID-19

The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot

The Day Lincoln Was Almost Shot

American Nationalisms

American Nationalisms

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