Author: brooks

Sorry, forgot to write that I added “The Secession” as a subpage as well!  We didn’t think that people noticed you could click on it and not just hover over it so we added it as a subpage so people could more easily click on it for that information.

Not much to update on for this week.  Both Eben and I went through the pages and improve the content/edited grammatical issues that we have seen.  I also changed the header image on a couple of the pages (like the timeline one).  We are both trying to figure out how to change the bottom of […]

I haven’t come across many conflicts with my website updates this time around (except for dumb things that have taken me way too long to figure out like centering a photo, etc).  I believe that I have roughly finished the timeline, but I would love to get some feedback on it.  It is rough (keep […]

I have been working on the timeline for our site, so please check it out and give any feedback you can. It took me way longer than necessary to figure out that I had been copying the wrong code to embed the timeline into the site and that’s why it was showing up wrong. So, […]

As our course is only meeting once a week from now on, Eben and I thought it best to meet during the time we have already set aside on Mondays for the course. This week we had an extensive visit at the SUU Special Collections and hit a gold mine of resources. We found a […]

This last week I was able to visit the site of Mountain Meadows Massacre here in Southern Utah. Although the event does not directly correlate with our project, it was a somber and educational experience to set a motivation for this project. Eben and I drew out a tentative layout of how we would like […]

Madison & Eben Contract Draft (updated) Goal: The goal of our project is to create a physical portrayal of the Latter Day Saint secession from the United States Government. Although this part of history is well known to most Utah residents, it is new or unfamiliar to others in the United States. We hope to […]

Spencer Klaw’s, “Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community” is a fascinating overview of the Oneida community. Adherences of the Oneida community were a combination of Christian and Communist attempting to create a Utopian community and were led by John Humphrey Noyes. The Oneida community practiced several unusual principles, but were most […]

Violence, Statecraft, and Statehood in the Early Republic : The State of Franklin, 1784–1788 by Kevin Barksdale I found this section of the book fascinating.  I am currently taking a course titled “The History of Sports in America” and I never thought that it would be so contingent with this article by Kevin Barksdale.  In […]

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 […]