This weblog provides updates about Dr. Isern's teaching and professional activities at North Dakota State University. It also notices accomplishments of NDSU students and comments on matters of the NDSU community.
It's my privilege this year to present the Tri-College History Lecture, 7:30 PM Wednesday 7 April, Reimers Room, NDSU Alumni Center. The topic: "My So-Called Life on the Plains: Confessions of the Last Picture Show Generation." Public invited.
Here's a flyer--PDF file - open it in another window.
It's about time to enroll for fall, so here are a few notes about my offerings fall 2004. As usual I'll have a section of HIST 104 at 12:30 T & R. After that, at 2:00 T & R, I have HIST 431/631, "The North American Plains." This course is in a state of continuous update, with new stuff in the works for the fall. HIST 489, Senior Seminar, will meet again at 3:00 Wednesdays. Once again it will be archives-intensive, using manuscript material in the Institute for Regional Studies. History majors, please note that I'm teaching 489 every semester now. (It used to be taught only in the fall, but it got too big.) I'm urging people to remember the spring availability, so that I can begin to even out the numbers between fall and spring, thereby providing better support both terms.
I hope yours is grand, and safe. Those seeking me for any sort of business will not find me. Thursday the 11th I'm flying to New Zealand; I'll be back the Monday night after spring break. Tired, probably, but meeting classes that Tuesday, you bet.