Home Page for HIST 431/631

	HIST 431/631 The North American Plains
This is the home page for Dr. Tom Isern's course in the history of the Great Plains of North America, taught at North Dakota State University. Students, this website is essential to your progress in the course. Everyone else, feel free to look around.

Lectures
Welcome to My World

1. The Question Mark in the Circle (scholarly interpretations)

2. The Wild Land (the Great Plains environment)

3. The Great American Desert (exploration)

4. Born Upon the Prairie (Plains Indians)

5. That Pike County Rose (transportation)

6. Ways and Habits of the West (ranching)

7. The Farmer Is the Man (agriculture)

8. That Tool Pusher from Snyder (mineral industries)

9. Wir Sehen Uns Nimmer Mehr (immigration & ethnicity)

10. Fire on the Ice (political culture)

11. It Looked So Awful Black (Dust Bowl)

12. The Continuity of Progress (community)

Core Readings
Three Threads

The Great Plains
A fundamental text, by Walter P. Webb

Thinking About the Great Plains
Ideas That Matter

The Great Plains at the Grassroots
Primary Documents of Regional Life

People
Who's in charge?

Professor Tom Isern

Graduate Assistant Aaron Barth

Email Contact for the Course: History431Guys@gmail.com

GREAT PLAINS FOLK FESTIVAL! - details forthcoming

Administration

About Webblog, the Weblog

Spreadsheet for Recording Your Grades (Excel file)

Scholastic Honesty

Response Papers on Lectures

Response Papers on Essays

Analysis of Primary Documents

Attendance & Participation

Resources

Bibliography of the North American Plains
Humanities Librarian Fran Fisher
Institute for Regional Studies & University Archives
Germans from Russia Heritage Collection
Center for Heritage Renewal
Plains Folk Home Page

Facebook
Heritage Trails
Plains Folk
281: Great Plains Highway

Webshots
Heritage Image
Plains Folk Video Annex

YouTube
Heritage Video
Plains Folk Photo Annex

Bulletin description:	The course treats the history of the Great Plains of North America as an international region, comprising the Canadian prairies and the American plains.
Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities:	Any students with disabilities who need accommodations in this course are encouraged to speak with Professor Isern as soon as possible to make appropriate arrangements.
General Education:	Meets requirements for Humanities and Cultural Diversity
Acknowledgments:	This course was made international--that is, the Canadian aspect was introduced and made co-equal with the American--with the assistance of a grant from the Faculty Enrichment Programme, Embassy of Canada. Because of that support, this is the only college course in the world that treats the history of the Great Plains of North America as a continental, bi-national region. Another agency that has helped in all my Canadian work by appointing me a Research Fellow is the Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina.

Isern Home Page - NDSU History Department