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This fall of 2010 the theme of the seminar once again 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 Central Desktop, the project management meadquarters for the seminar. This is the dynamic web interface of the course, where we all make contributions and learn from one another. Central Desktop is an online project management program. I've chosen this service 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
University Distinguished Professor
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Resources for Historians
America: History and Life
JSTOR
Humanities Librarian Fran Fisher
NDSU Institute for Regional Studies
North Dakota Biography Index
Ancestry Library
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
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