Resources for Student Skills Development:
Research Methods in History
Analyzing Historical Artifacts
Some Reflections on How to Write an Essay
Using Film as Historical Artifact and Document
How to Cite, Using Footnotes: Using the Chicago Manual of Style
A Starting Point Guide to Research for History Students
Using the Library as a Starting Point for Research
Using Telnet and the WWW to Search Library Catalogs
On Conducting an Oral History Interview
On Writing a Research Essay
On Writing Book Reviews
Analytical Essays--On American Women's Autobiographies
Elements of a Monograph (or, How to Read a Book)
What Can I Do With a History Degree?
CSI History Department Homepage
Web Tutorial for CSI-CUNY Students
How to Use HTML
Evaluating a Website

Multimedia Work:
Web Tutorial for CSI-CUNY Students
Evaluating a Website
FIPSE Project Workshop, Experiential Learning
"Wired West" Presentation Starting Points, Western History Association, October 1999.
"Using Technology to Teach Internal and External Textual Analysis," NYMASA Conference.
Integrating History and Literature in the Web-Based Honors Classroom, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, April 2000.
WestWeb, A Resource for Western American History
"Liberty Rhetoric" and Nineteenth-Century Women
Dia de los Muertos--Festival of the Dead
Using Jim Zwick's Anti-Imperialism Site
Online Texts of the Gilded Age
Using Telnet and the WWW to Search Library Catalogs Online
Looking for the Experiences of Slave Women on the WWW
Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the NY Metro Area

Sites Developed by Students:
The New York Women's Biography Hub (Student Project)
Yvonne Tu's Guide to Public History (Student Project)
Kim DeCicco's "Moments in Staten Island's Black History" (Student Project)
Western Women’s Autobiographies Database (Student Project)

About Monographs:
Jules Tygiel's Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy (1983)
Glenn Altschuler and Jan M. Saltzgaber, Revivalism, Social Conscience and Community in the Burned-Over District: The Trial of Rhoda Bement (1983)
Peter Biskind, Seeing is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties (1983)
Paul Boyer, By The Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (1985)
Philip Deloria, Playing Indian (1999)
Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (1979)
Elaine Tyler May, "Explosive Issues: Sex, Women, and the Bomb" (1989)
Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893)
Harvey Green, The Uncertainty of Everyday Life, 1914-1945 (1992)
Peter Guralnick, Searching for Robert Johnson (1989)
Steven Watson, The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930 (1995)
George Herring, "The Vietnam War" (1986)
Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain (1903)
Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire (1992)
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929)
Rickie Solinger, The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law (1994)
Frederick M. Binder & David M. Reimers, All The Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City (1995)
Richard Slotkin, "The Significance of the Frontier Myth in American History," from Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (1992)
John Steinbeck, The Harvest Gypsies (1936)
Paul Fussell, "Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and an Afterword on Japanese Skulls" (1988)
John Morton Blum, V Was for Victory (1976)
Stephen J. Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War (1991, 2d. Ed., 1996)

About Memoirs:
Linda Brent, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
Ruth Underhill and María Chona, Papago Woman (1936)
Mamie Garvin Fields, Lemon Swamp and Other Places (1983)
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929)
Elsie Clews Parsons, The Journal of a Feminist
Patricia Raybon, My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love, and Forgiveness (1996)
Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire (1992)
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through it and Other Stories (1976).
Mary Rowlandson, The Narrative of the Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)
Paul Fussell, "Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and an Afterword on Japanese Skulls" (1988)
Zitkala Sa, "Impressions of an Indian Childhood," Atlantic Monthly 85 (1900): 37-47.

About Novels:
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888)
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (1950)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
Bret Harte, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and Other Stories (1870)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915)
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
Lydia Maria Child, Hobomok (1824)
Mark Twain, Roughing It (1891)
Mark Twain, "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" (1895)
Mark Twain, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865/1875)
Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography (1928) including close readings within the text of gender bending and women's biography
Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982), along with a brief biography of Alice Walker
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper (1899)
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)

About Historical Documents:
Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893)
Thomas Jefferson, "President Thomas Jefferson's Instructions to Captain Meriwether Lewis" (June 20, 1803)
Discussing The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution

About Material Culture, Music, and Images:
Robert Johnson, "Crossroad Blues" and Others (1936).
Images of the Colonial Family and Beyond.
Sources for the Blues.
Images of Zitkala-Sa.

About Films:
Film as Document and Artifact
Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men (1957)
William Wyler, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Michael Curtiz, Casablanca (1942)
Charles Chaplin, The Immigrant (1917) and Easy Street (1917)
King Vidor, The Crowd (1928) (and a scene-by-scene analysis of the film)
Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove (1963)
Edward Zwick, Glory (1990)
John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life (1959)
John Frankenheimer, The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Edwin Porter, The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Herbert J. Biberman, The Salt of the Earth (1953) (as feminist text)
Herbert J. Biberman, The Salt of the Earth (1953) (as borderlands text)
John Ford, The Searchers (1956)
Mike Nichols, Working Girl (1988)
The Sins of Our Mothers (1988)
John Ford, Stagecoach (1939)
Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Oscar Micheaux, Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)
Ida B. Wells, Crusader for Justice

Resources for Textual Analysis:
"Using New Media to Teach Internal and External Textual Analysis," NYMASA Conference.
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles (1950), and Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain (1903), Compared
Robert Johnson, "Crossroad Blues" and Others (1936).
"Liberty Rhetoric" and Nineteenth-Century Women
Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography (1928) including close readings within the text of gender bending and women's biography Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen and the Declaration of the Rights of Woman Compared
Declaration of Independence and Declaration of Sentiments Compared

Texts Published Online:

Liberty Rhetoric Website:

Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)

Declaration of the Rights of Woman (Olympe De Gouges, 1791)

Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen and the Declaration of the Rights of Woman Compared

Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments (1848)

Declaration of Independence (1776)

Declaration of Independence and Declaration of Sentiments Compared

The Constitution of the United States

Mark Twain, "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" (1895)

Mark Twain, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1865/1875)

Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper (1899)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" (1913)

Bret Harte, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" and Other Stories (1870)

Lydia Maria Child, Selections from Hobomok (1824)

Mark Twain, Selections from Roughing It (1891)

Thomas Jefferson, "President Thomas Jefferson's Instructions to Captain Meriwether Lewis" (June 20, 1803)

Mary Austin, Selections from The Land of Little Rain (1903)

James Fenimore Cooper, Selections from The Last of the Mohicans (1826)

Philip Wylie, Selections from "Common Women [Momism]" from A Generation of Vipers (1942, 1955)

Mary Rowlandson, The Narrative of the Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)

The Constitution of the United States

Zitkala Sa, "Impressions of an Indian Childhood," Atlantic Monthly 85 (1900): 37-47.

Songs of the Great Depression [lyrics for "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime," by Yip Harburg (1931), and "Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries," (1932)]

Images of We'Wha, The Zuni Man-Woman (1886)

Sources for Maori Tattooing

Robert Johnson, "Crossroad Blues" and Others (1936).

About Teaching with New Media:
FIPSE Project Workshop, Experiential Learning
"Wired West" Presentation Starting Points, Western History Association, October 1999.
"Using Technology to Teach Internal and External Textual Analysis," NYMASA Conference.
Integrating History and Literature in the Web-Based Honors Classroom, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, April 2000.