Welcome to the inaugural run of a blog on US History for graduate students at GSU. While I am not the first, or even the second, professor to consider blogs as a means of ongoing communication for a class, I do want to make this blog both useful and interesting. As such, we are going to work with a set of simple rules and see if it takes off.
Rule 1: you may post on discussion questions for next week's reading, or you may share extra readings or other ideas connected with the next week's topic. OR, you may post links to websites of interest, books or articles, or other resources that others in the class may find helpful. Especially of interest are links to examples of the uses of history in the modern day world.
Rule 2: you should comment early and often on posts. All posts should be invitations to discussion.
Rule 3: debates are permitted. Rules of courtesy and professionalism apply. As administrator, I will remove any and all inappropriate posts.
Rule 4: you MUST add labels to all of your posts, so that we can find them and use them later. You should add a LABEL for any author you are referencing (make sure you post the author's full name, e.g.: Edmund Morgan), as well as something to identify the topic or period. Try to match tags already in existence, and if one does not exist, then go ahead and create it.
Rule 5: Make sure that I can identify your profile name connected with your google account. If you are Robert8484859302, it may be difficult to know who you are. Likewise if you choose some cool-sounding moniker for a name, like "History Bandit." I will not insist that you choose your first and last name to post under, but it is incumbent upon you to make sure you get credit for your blogging by making it easy for me to identify you.
Rule 6: more rules will be added as we go along.
Happy blogging!
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