HIST 103DCE News

It is a proud pleasure to announce that Miles D. Lewis, PhD student in History at NDSU, is co-winner of the History Compass Graduate Essay Prize for North American History in 2006. His award-winning essay, "Railroads, Regionalism, and Postwar Economic Decline in the West: The Case of Montana's Upper Musselshell Valley," derives from his master's and doctoral research on his home region in central Montana. The award was announced at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta the first week of January.

Notice the link at right for Virtual Office Hours. This leads to a page where you can log into a chatroom. I'm going to be there from 8 to 9 (Central Time) tomorrow night, Thursday the 18th. If you have questions for me, or just want to talk about the course or about History, come on in! Mr. Lewis, of course, is the instructor and administrator of the course; I'm the author of it. If there are any problems out there, then in the chat he and I can put out heads together (virtually) and fix them. Or, as I say, if you're just interested in History and want to talk about it, that's great, too.

All right, we've mailed lecture CDs to all who have given Mr. Lewis a postal mailing address. If not, once again, send your address to: lewis@plainsfolk.com

I'll upload a quiz this weekend, so that if you're ready to start work when the CDs arrive, you'll be able to proceed on to the quiz.

Miles, if you have anything to add, post it! Thanks to you for your work getting the course off and rolling.

I've spent much of today posting pages to the website for HIST 103 DCE, getting ready for the distance offering of the course beginning this week. The first week, by the way, is set aside for arrangements. This week we'll be communicating with students enrolled in the course, gathering mailing addresses to send out CDs containing lectures. So it will be next week before actual work begins for students. In the meantime, please do respond to e-mail communications, so that we can get arrangements in place in timely fashion. Miles Lewis is the instructor for HIST 103 DCE. I'll be helping out with getting the course started.