Benjamin Park

What was the end result? Yeah.

So historian Benjamin Park, a historian of American religion and politics and the author of Kingdom of Nauvoo, wrote that they don't contain anything shockingly new, but they do add real insight into the tensions inside American democracy, which is what I was just saying to you, Jess, before we started recording the show, right?

Mm-hmm.

The thing I mostly got out of what the historians got out of it was that they said they had not realized how hostile the church leaders were to the US government.