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This fall of 2007, as was also the case last spring, the theme of the seminar is monumental history, meaning documentary research and interpretive reflection on historical monuments of this region, the northern plains. Our proximity to the monuments in question allows us to do primary research, to get at the first-hand documents about the monuments and their historical circumstances. At the same time, the self-conscious commemoration invoked by the monuments themselves takes us deep into the realms of collective memory, provoking the sort of reflective inquiry that characterizes the best in historical writing in these early years of the 21st century.
Be sure to get into Herodotus, the wiki for the seminar, hosted by Wetpaint. The wiki is the dynamic web interface of the course, where we all make contributions and learn from one another. I've chosen the wiki as an appropriate medium for the sort of collaboration I hope to cultivate in the seminar.
Also check out Remembrance in Stone, a website created by the Center for Heritage Renewal using research from the senior seminar. You'll see that the CHR is striving to apply student research to the promotion of heritage consciousness and heritage tourism in the region.
All best wishes for success, satisfaction, and enjoyment in the Senior Seminar! It is a privilege to lead you in this capstone course, to keep company with you as scholars, and to enjoy the fruits of your research. Thank you.
Tom Isern, Professor of History
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Resources for Historians
Reserve Readings (password required)
Hardhat History
America: History and Life
Humanities Librarian Fran Fisher
NDSU Institute for Regional Studies
North Dakota Biography Index
Ancestry
Library of Congress
National Archives
State Historical Society of North Dakota
Reading of Papers at Historical Meetings
Francis Bacon Writes "Of Studies"
Herbert Baxter Adams Describes the Seminar in History
Strunk & White
History and Memory
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Links to be added
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