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This week I worked on uploading more of our content to the site, filling out the Secession overview page, the Leaders of the Church page, Who are the Mormons? page, updating imagery and trying to organize the website so things were in a more sensible order. I also worked on the Story Maps – which […]

  “Mormon Pioneer; The 1846 Trek”.  National Parks Service.  Accessed 5 March 2017.  https://www.nps.gov/mopi/learn/historyculture/history1.htm   “Mormon Pioneer; History and Culture”.  National Parks Service. Accessed 5 March 2017.  https://www.nps.gov/mopi/learn/historyculture/index.htm. “Mormon Trail History”.  Utah Travel Industry.  Accessed 4 March 2017.  https://utah.com/ mormon/pioneer-trail-history Stack, Peggy Fletcher.  “This is the place for facts you might not know about Mormon […]

Duerr discusses Scottish nationalism and secessionism, a topic of importance considering the recent secession referendum of 2014. The UK has an interesting makeup in terms of identities – a makeup Duerr refers to as a multinational state – because many individuals identify as both Scottish and British, and do not find issue with doing so. I […]

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 create a user friendly and aesthetically […]

Keillor’s account is an immensely entertaining read, not surprising considering he’s the mind behind the genius A Prairie Home Companion. Lake Wobegon Days is his novelization of several parts of the radio show, written more like a series of short stories with re-occurring characters than as a cohesive narrative. The piece satirizes secessionist movements in […]

Jason Sorens explores the nature of secession and various historical secessionist movements in his piece. He pays particular attention to establishing what the contributing factors that cause a group to seek total secession – rather than improving status with the majority or higher levels of self-governing autonomy within the existing state. There are a variety […]

Hello! My name is Eben Lee Thomas and I’m a senior history major at Southern Utah University. My academic focus tends to be on the ancient world (particularly Egypt and Greece), so I’m excited for the opportunity to do something more modern. I really enjoy doing research and as I work in IT on campus […]

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