Home Page for Tom Isern

This is the academic home page for Tom Isern, Professor of History & University Distinguished Professor, North Dakota State University. It is provides entry to the courses I teach and other business pertinent to my work for the university. All this material is lodged with the History RFD domain on the servers of a private provider. The same provider also hosts my other websites: one for Plains Folk, the weekly feature on history and folklife of the Great Plains, and another for the Center for Heritage Renewal, the NDSU research center for historic preservation and heritage tourism.

Tom Isern
Office: Putnam Hall 20, NDSU
Mailing Address
PO Box 1390
Fargo ND 58107-1390
Tel 701-799-2942

1-Page Bio / 2-Page Vita

Resident Instruction
(Fall & Spring)

Extramural or Summer Instruction
HIST 103: US to 1877
HIST 104: US since 1877

HIST 730: Readings in North American History
(Advanced Readings on the Great Plains)
HIST 710: Research Seminar in North American History
(Grassroots History)

Advising
Bison Advisin' (under revision)
(Undergraduate)
The Wizard (under revision)
(Graduate)
Office hours for student consultations: Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday 9:00-11:00 AM (or make an appointment)
Hardhat History (under revision)

Research Initiatives

Banks of the Washita - watch this space for an Oklahoma research initiative
The Whitemud Chronicles - watch this space for a Saskatchewan research initiative

Current Funded Projects
Siege of Fort Abercrombie - American Battlefield Protection Program
Some Past Funded Projects
NEH Seminar: The Great Plains
Architectural Survey of Bowman County
Historical Documentation of Bowesmont
Survey of Iron Cross Cemeteries in North Dakota
Service Roles
Director, Center for Heritage Renewal
Distance Education Council
Editorial Boards: Oecology, Kansas History, Heritage of the Great Plains

President, and Webmaster of NZOZ Studies Section

Advisory Board

Life at NDSU
Legends of NDSU
The Yellow and the Green
Shrine to Justin Smith Morrill

NDSU History Department

"Liberal and Practical Education"--Morrill Act 1862