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Herodotus: Wiki for HIST 489HIBERNATION: This wiki is currently inactive. I taught 489 in fall 2007 and expect to teach it again in fall 2008.
Welcome to Herodotus, the wiki for the Senior Seminar in History. This will be a nexus of communications and and a focus of work in the seminar.
ANNOUNCEMENTS / TRANSACTIONS / HAPPENINGS
Roster for Fall 2007
Boe, Matt / Easterday, Kurt / Eslinger, Josh / Hansen, Kelly / Hillmer, Linsey / Pool, Adam / Popp, Mark / Quirk, Chloe / Spielman, Matt
About the Wiki
Herodotus is the wiki for HIST 489, the Senior Seminar in History at North Dakota State University. Webbmaster--that's me, Prof. Tom Isern, and if you wonder about the second "b" in the name, then visit the seminar website and you'll figure it out.
The main purpose of the wiki is to establish a knowledge base for the benefit of all in the seminar. Our common subject of research is historical monuments on the northern plains. Every researcher works on an individual topic in line with this common investigation. Still, there are two types of knowledge we will try to build in Herodotus that will be applicable to all the individual topics.
The first of these is knowledge of secondary literature. As background to our research, and as a basis for interpretation of our research, we need to establish familiarity with the main lines of secondary historical writing on historical monuments. Each of us will contribute to the knowledge base of secondary literature.
See: Bibliography of Secondary Literature on Historical Monuments
The second type of knowledge to be registered in the wiki is knowledge of primary sources for research. In pursuit of individual topics, many of us will use some of the same primary sources or same types of primary sources. Each of us will contribute to the knowledge base of primary sources for research.
See: Guide to Primary Sources on Historical Monuments
Besides contributing to the common knowledge base, every seminarian is expected to establish and maintain a home page in the wiki and other pages linked to the home page. The individual home pages are to be linked to names in the roster above.
Your Own Pages in the Wiki
The two pages linked above are ones we will work on together. In addition, you are to establish certain required pages of your own that will document your place and work in the seminar.
The first of these is your own home page. To create your home page in the wiki, use the "Add a new page" button at right, and select the template, "Home Page for YourName." Here you will find headings for the information to be filled in. Besides these, you can add other information, if you wish, but keep it pertinent to the seminar. Things not pertinent to the seminar, you can put those into your Wetpaint profile.
There are templates for the other two required pages, too. Use them to set up one page for your research log and another for your bibliography. Then link the research log and the bibliography into the designated places in your home page.
Credits
Many thanks to Wetpaint, the wiki hosts, for hosting this educational wiki ad-free.
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