To fill the gap and unify the citizenry, thinkers in the early republic cultivated particularist visions of American character and destiny and projected them onto the country as a whole.

"[14] The book was a finalist for Johns Hopkins University Press's Sally and Morris Lasky Prize for Political History.

of David F. Holland's Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America[18]) catalyzed some controversy among the Mormon apologetics community.

[19][20][21][22][23] In 2017, Park joined twenty other Mormon studies scholars in signing a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court with regard to its review of Trump administration's travel bans.

[24][25][26] In 2017 Park was among ten co-authors who published the online pamphlet "Shoulder to the Wheel: Resources to Help Latter-day Saints Face Racism.