For our website, we want to research the Mormon migration across the U.S. and into Utah territory following the lynching of Joseph Smith. We will emphasize the Latter Day Saint secession from the United States Government. We would like to outline their path and the altercations they had with non-Mormons- peaceful and violent. Once they […]
Month: January 2017
“Imagined Communities” Reading Reflection
Benedict Anderson’s analysis of nationalism takes an interesting course as he tries to justify how our society’s view of a nation is actually an anomaly. Anderson explains that his goal for his book is to explain what a nation is in modern terms. In order to satisfactorily define nation, one has to understand the context […]
Hello COPLAC world!
Hello, my name is Jordyn Madison Brooks– but I go by my middle name Madison. I am a double major at Southern Utah University in Anthropology and History. I’m originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, but I am currently living in Cedar City, Utah. To be honest, I had no idea what COPLAC was until one […]