This is an index for what I wrote online this year, mostly for my own future reference. This does not include my writing for print publications. (Those are on my CV.)
Most of these appeared on my blog. If they appeared somewhere else, I include the site’s name in parentheses.
Featured Essays for Online Magazines
- Ammon Bundy and the Paradoxes of Mormon Political Theologies (Religion and Politics)
- Gay Mormons, Reparative Therapy, and the Safe Spaces of Conservative Religion (Religious News Network)
- Why Utah Felt the Bern: Mormonism’s Forgotten Progressive Past (Religion Dispatches)
- Theodore Parker and America’s Religious Nativism (Christian Century; sources)
- The Mormon Council of Fifty: What Joseph Smith’s Secret Records Reveal (Religion and Politics; sources)
Historiographical Issues
- Re-Conceiving the Age of Revolutions in the Age of Obama (The Junto)
- Religion and the Founding: Part I of Probably Many
- What Happened to the “Democratic” in the “Age of Democratic Revolutions”? (The Junto)
- Reassessing Robert Flanders’s Kingdom on the Mississippi, 50 Years Later (Juvenile Instructor)
- Mormon Studies and Edited Collections
- Continental History: It’s So Hot Right Now (USIH)
- Writing History in the Age of Trump
- Envisioning a Robert Orsi for Mormon Studies (Juvenile Instructor)
Book Reviews
- George Q. Cannon Diaries, Online (Juvenile Instructor)
- MHA Remarks on Greg Prince’s Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History (Also see 13 Surprising Facts)
- Summer Book Club on Newell and Avery, Mormon Enigma (Juvenile Instructor)
- Baker and Edelstein, Scripting Revolution (H-Net)
- Nancy Isenberg, White Trash
- Jill Lepore, Joe Gould’s Teeth
- MacKay and Frederick, Joseph Smith’s Seer Stones
- Thomas Simpson, American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940 (See also this Q&A)
- Martha Bradley-Evans, Glorious in Persecution (Juvenile Instructor)
- Matthew Karp, This Vast Southern Empire (The Junto)
- Partridge, Thirteenth Apostle: The Diaries of Amasa Lyman
- Mason and Turner, Out of Obscurity: Mormonism Since 1945
- Leigh Eric Schmidt, Village Atheists
- Steve Pincus, The Heart of the Revolution
- Holbrook and Bowman, Women and Mormonism
- Caroline Winterer, American Enlightenments
- John Turner, The Mormon Jesus
- Caitlin Fitz, Our Sister Republics
2016 Book Lists
- Previewing 2016: Looking Ahead to Forthcoming Books in Mormon History (Juvenile Instructor)
- 2016 in Retrospect: An Overview of Notworthy Books and Articles in Mormon History (Juvenile Instructor)
- My favorite 2016 Books in Early American History (The Junto)
Interviews and Quotes
- 99% Invisible, Plat of Zion
- Max Mueller, Why Mormons Led the Revolt Against Donald Trump (Slate)
- Federica Narancio, Viaje a Utah, La Tierra Mormona Que Se Rebela Contra Donald Trump (Univision)
Pedagogy
- Mormonism and American Politics: Curriculum for a Community Seminar
- Framing the American Narrative as a Story of Diversity, Part I: The Survey
- Framing the American Narrative as a Story of Diversity, Part II: American Religious History
- Teaching Sylvester Johnson’s African American Religions, 1500-2000
- Teaching Adam Rothman’s Beyond Freedom’s Reach
- Westworld as the Internal Enemy
Historical Insights to Contemporary Issues
- Frederick Douglass and the Long History of #BlackLivesMatter
- Analyzing White Trash in the Age of Trump
- Phyllis Schlafly and the Modern Mormon Political Image
- The Peculiar Mormon Vote
- Utah Republicans “Come Home to Trump”: Implications for the Mormon Vote
- The American Fear of “Church Broke” Mormons
- The Limits of the Liberal Political Imagination
- Frederick Douglass’s “Composite Nation”
Original Research
Highlighting Recent Scholarship
- Christopher Grasso on “Religious” and “Secular” in the Early Republic
- Reflections on #MIBushman
- BYU’s Maxwell Institute Celebrates 10 Years and a New Beginning
- New Volume of Mormon Studies Review
Personal Essays
- No, George Washington Didn’t Believe in the Mormon God (By Common Consent)
- In Memoriam: Ronald W. Walker (Juvenile Instructor)
- Normalizing Gun Violence on Campus
- Why This Presidential Election is Not (Only) About Politics
- Helping Hands in an Unnamed Storm (By Common Consent)
- The Community of Dialogue
- Joseph Smith’s Religious Liberty, and Ours (By Common Consent)
- Origins and Purpose of The Junto: Roundtable Remarks from #USIH2016
- November 5
- Short Opinion on the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Singing at Trump’s Inauguration
- In Memoriam: B. Carmon Hardy (Juvenile Instructor)
Benjamin E. Park 