KCU Herodotus Society

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Exciting News

Hello fellow society members!

Well, I discovered I am not able to post documents on this blog, so there will be no papers up here. However, I have some mucho exciting news: the Herodotus Society is in the process of being added to Sakai, meaning that we can post whatever we want, anyone can ask and respond to questions in a forum, there will be a calendar of events, and our constitution and purpose statement will be available for all members. This may take a week or two to be put up, but most likely by Fall Break we will have a tremendous webpage for our group!

In other news, I have booked a speaker for us for sometime in November: Dr. Brendan Haynie will be presenting on the History of Science, a field which he is interested in. You will be notified of further developments, hopefully by our new webpage!

-Matthew P.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Hello, fellow Herodotusians!

Dear Herodotus Society members,

I would like to say first what an honor it is to have been made your society president--this is a position I take to heart. Through the next few months, we will be having guest lectures, student presentations, possibly interesting videos, a couple of fieldtrips, and hopefully some fundraisers. This blog and your emails will be the manner in which I will most easily be able to update you on happenings with the society. Tomorrow I will post fieldtrip ideas for us, as well as several history papers I have written throughout college. I will also try to link some recent news in historical fields to this blog, so you can keep up with current research, finds, archaeological discoveries, etc. If you have suggestions for things to add to this blog--such as a history Q & A section, suggestion area, ect.--or for things we should do at our meetings, please let Dr. Wineland, Brian Neyhart, or myself and we see what we can do. We are in existence as a society to uplift one another in our mutual interest in history. Let us care for one another as we look to the past to help us move forward.

-Matthew P.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Tips for Citing Your Work

Greetings,

Most History Department use the Chicago Manual of Style also known as Turabian Style. It uses footnotes to document sources. This is the style which I prefer. I require this style in my upper level history courses and I review it in the Senior Seminar class.

There are several online sources which can help you understand the style but I have found these to be most helpful:

Here is a quick guide to citations in Chicago style

http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/chicagogd.php

Also check

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite7.html

Also check this helpful website

http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c10_s1.html

Which has a model paper online which should prove helpful

http://dianahacker.com/pdfs/Hacker-Bish-CMS.pdf

John Wineland, Grayson, KY

Thursday, September 20, 2007

October 2, 2007 Meeting

Tuesday October 2nd
3-4 PM
Herodotus Society Meeting
242 Lusby
Short Business Meeting
Followed by a Presentation
by Dr. John Wineland entitled
Summer 2007 in Turkey

Meeting Times for the Fall Semester 2007

Herodotus Society Meets every other Tuesday

3-4pm in 242 Lusby

Meetings for the Fall 2007

October 2
October 16
October 30
November 13
November 27

Welcome

I have created this blog so we can have a channel of communication for the Herodotus Society.

John Wineland: Faculty Advisor

Here is a list of our officers:

President: Matthew Peek
Vice President: Brian Neyhart
Sec/Treasurer: Cassie Holmes

Members of the Society

Ronald Blume, Jr. rblume@kcu.edu

Gerald Dyson: gdyson@kcu.edu

Melissa Godbey: mgodbey@kcu.edu

Victor Greenhill: vgreenhill@kcu.edu

Mike Hedges: mhedges@kcu.edu

Paul Hockley: phockley@kcu.edu

Cassie Holmes: cholmes@kcu.edu

Daniel T. Lewis: dlewis@kcu.edu

Rob Martin: krmartin@kcu.edu

Rachel Morris: rmorris@kcu.edu

Brian Neyhart: bneyhart@kcu.edu

Heather Nicolas: loverofhistory@yahoo.com