Greetings, all.
I am a PhD. candidate at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
My dissertation examines the introduction of oil fuel into the British
and American navies in the early part of the twentieth century and the
resulting shifts in the balance of power. I'm interested in H-USA because
I am the instructor for a course here at A&M on US history since 1877 that
is open only to international students. Consequently, I am interested in
learning how others teach US history to non-Americans. Additionally, I am
a co-moderator for another H-Net list, H-Mac -- the H-Net list for historians
who use Macintosh computers.
David A. Snyder History Department, Texas A&M University
das3050@tam2000.tamu.edu College Station, TX 77843-4236 USA
#26: From: GC Cuthbertson <CUTHBGC@alpha.unisa.ac.za>
I teach US and South African History at the University of South
Africa which is a distance education institution in Pretoria.
My interest in US history goes back to my graduate days at the
University of Cape Town and I have taught a graduate class (4th year
students) since 1980. Recently I have introduced (with a team) an
Masters course in comparative US-South African history which offers
specialisations in historiography, environment, slavery, frontier,
civil rights and gender. I am presently trying to improve these
courses and would be glad to exchange ideas.
I have published (with a colleague, Nicholas Southey) an introductory
manual on US history in the 19th and 20th centuries for South African
students studying US history for the first time. This needs updating,
which is also why I am keen to make contact with Americanists.
am also a contributing editor to the Journal of American History
and correspond regularly with the editor, David Thelen, on issues
related to transnational histories.
#27: From: lucienne neraud <lneraud@bred.univ.-montp3.fr>
I teach "American civilization" in the English Department at the
Universite Paul Valery in Montpellier, in southern France (American
Political institutions ; American history ; American Labor Movement).
I wrote my dissertation on the farmworkers' movement in Texas between 1966
and 1986. I focus my research on social movements in rural America (farmers
and farmworkers). I am also interested in the way growers, and agribusiness
in general, deal with their labor force (recruitment; legislation; response
to organization) not only in the states but also in other countries.
#28: Christopher Harper harperc@IS.NYU.EDU
My name is Christopher Harper. I am an associate professor and director of graduate
studies at New York University's Department of Journalism. Before joining the NYU
faculty two years ago, I worked as a reporter for the Associated Press, Newsweek
Magazine, ABC News and ABC 20/20.
During my 23 years in journalism, I spent eight years in Beirut, Cairo and Rome.
I teach a course, which is required of all NYU graduate students, called "Journalistic
Tradition." The course analyzes the great writer/reporters in the English language for
the past 300 years. I also teach foreign affairs reporting. I use the case study method
for this course. Two cases are the decision to use the atomic bomb, where we read
"Operation Downfall," and Hersey's Hiroshima, and an economic case study that my
students develop.
I am working on a book on the decline of serious journalism in America and a
CD-ROM project on writing, reporting and research techniques for television.
I look forward to participating in this project.
#29: From: James B. Schick <jschick@mail.pittstate.edu>
I have been interested in finding new ways to translate my enthusiasm
for history and particularly the part of American history up to 1789
since I began teaching in 1966. This led, first, to the use of
role-playing simulations of my own creation in the early 1970s. By the
late 1970s I had taught myself BASIC for Radio Shack Model I computers
and was translating my earlier paper-board-rules games into computer
versions. This led, ultimately, to founding _History Microcomputer
Review_ (the middle name changed to Computer with the Spring 1996 issue
that's just out) and participating in workshops sponsored by the
Organization of American Historians in the late 1980s on teaching
history with a computer. I have written widely on that topic and I
have appeared in many different fora encouraging historians to become
involved in this new medium. I have developed many computer tutorials
nd simulations, including one for which I received a grant from the
U.S. Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution. I encourage
any of my colleagues who have used computers in their teaching to
communicate their findings to their peers through the medium of HCR and
to participate on h-net lists focused on their interests.
Dr. James B. M. Schick - History Computer Review
Pittsburg State University - Pittsburg, Kansas 66762
jschick@pittstate.edu - fax: 316-232-7515 - phone: 316-235-4317