Features include the award-winning article, "I Can Almost See the Lights of Home~A Field Trip to Harlan County, Kentucky," by Charles Hardy, III and Alessandro Portelli. (recent winner of the Oral History Association's 1999 Non-print Media Award for outstanding use of oral history.) Their "essay-in-sound" reconceptualizes the practice of oral history scholarship.

"Frank Capra's America" features RealAudio versions of talks by Robert Brent Toplin, Lawrence Levine, and Dan T. Carter originally presented at the 1999 annual meeting of the American Historical Association; they are enhanced with film excerpts that highlight key points in their presentations.

The first of two hypertext essays on "Teaching and Research" -- "Selling China: www.cnta.com and Cultural Nationalism" -- suggests how historians can use Web sites as primary source documents. The second, "Viva Computer Links not Chain Links!", reviews Web sites pertaining to the US-Mexican border region.

"Historically Speaking" features an engaging interview (audio and text) with Thomas Sugrue, author of THE ORIGINS OF THE URBAN CRISIS and winner of the Bancroft Prize in History.

Volume 2 also contains a variety of hypermedia reviews of Web sites, CD-ROMs, and video/audio documentary productions. Leading scholars evaluate substantive content, as well as discuss technical, pedagogical and aesthetic issues. The reviews include samples of the works reviewed.

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