Judy: Please pass on the url to learn about the SUNY Learning Network. Thanks Bill Casey Apulia Sta., NY 13020 In a message dated 11/27/2001 8:30:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << Hello Everyone--For twenty years, I taught a course on New York State history at SUNY Oswego, using a variety of paperbacks but not text. This meant that lectures had to carry much of the structure and chronology of the course. This has both good points and bad ones. I also teach a course called "Doing History Locally," which is a seminar based on finding and using a variety of primary sources relating to local and community history. Students always work on one community or another in New York State, using manuscripts, printed materials (newspapers, local histories), oral histories, architecture as evidence, quantitative material, and so forth. This has been very successful and is also a lot of fun for me, since every student's paper is different and since most contribute something new to our overall knowledge. Copies of student papers since 1972 are in Special Collections, Penfield Library, SUNY, Oswego. This fall, I am teaching this course on the web, through the SUNY Learning Network, for the first time. It is HIS 452/552: Doing History Locally, cross-listed for seniors and graduate students. Judy Wellman Professor Emerita SUNY Oswego Historian, Historical New York >>