History of Utah
Class - Spring Only | Registration opens Friday, January 3, 2025 9:30 AM MST
A study of Utah generally with attention given to the exploration, settlement and development of the state. The course will use as its text, Utah: The Right Place by Utah historian and author, Thomas G. Alexander, along with other sources. Topics to be covered will be the state's geography, Native Americans, Explorers, Entrepreneurs and Emigrants, Building a New Kingdom, Confrontation and Compromise, Progressive Utah, The Great War and the Little Depression, World War II and the Transformation of Utah, and an American Commonwealth. One voluntary field trip will be planned for either Mountain Meadows or Silver Reef, Utah.
No class on Jan. 20 (MLK Holiday)
No class on Feb. 17 (Presidents Day)
No class on March 10 (Spring Break)
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Loren Webb
- Master of Arts Degree in Communications, December 1981, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
- Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism Education and a minor in History, December 1979, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
- History/Geography 7 Instructor, Saville Middle School, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 2004 to May 2020
- State of Nevada Professional License and endorsements in Speech, History of the U.S. and the World, Journalism and Communication
- Utah Professional Educator License, Level 2, endorsements in Journalism, Speech and History
- English/Journalism instructor, Uintah High School, Vernal, Utah, August 2001 to August 2004
- President, Washington County Historical Society, St. George, Utah, January 2021 to March 2023
- Served on a volunteer basis from 1992 to 1996 as chairman, Washington County Centennial History Committee, which worked with two authors (Doug Alder and Karl Brooks) to update the history of Washington County, Utah as part of a Utah State Historical Society project to update the county histories of all 29 counties of Utah
- Co-taught History of Utah's Dixie (evening course) with local historian Bart Anderson from January to March 1991 under direction of Dixie College History Professor Robert Slack