Nicolas W. Proctor

Associate Professor

Department Chair

Department of History

Simpson College, 701 North C St., Indianola, Iowa, 50125

tel. (515) 961-1632; fax (515) 961-1498

nick.proctor@simpson.edu

2007 CV

You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

-- Plato

SYLLABI

HIST 363 American Civil War

09 DBQs: Columbia : Women Soldiers : Andersonville : Music : Money

07 DBQs: Vicksburg : Spencer Rifles : Hooker : CSA Hospitals : CSA women spies

HUM 101 Western Traditions, pt. 1

Feedback

HIST 211 African-American History

HIST 361 American Environmental History

Sense of Place : Family : Law : Prairie : Objects : Rubbish : Thanksgiving

HIST 102 Western Civilization, pt. 2

HIST 201 American History to 1877

Forest Diplomacy : Midterm Examination Pool

HIST 202 American History Since 1877

HIST 222 American Women’s History

EXAMINATIONS: Final Examination Pool

HIST 359 Colonial and Revolutionary America

EXAMINATIONS: Final Examination Essay Pool

DBQs: ANDREA : DAVID : CAL

HIST 385 Historiography

Historiographical Review

HIST 386 Game Design Seminar

ON HIATUS

HIST 360 Jefferson & Jackson

Document Links

HIST 364 Readings in US History: Strategy

Crisis simulation

MAY TERM

HIST 197 A Reacting to the Past: USA

HIST 197B Reacting to the Past: Asia

HIST 290 Thailand/Vietnam

HIST 290 Historical Simulation

HIST 190 Deep South Road Trip

GAMES & SIMULATIONS

Affirmative Action in Higher Education: The Game

Forest Diplomacy

The Plantation Management Game

Vietcong Dodgeball

DOCUMENTS & ASSIGNMENTS

ASSIGNMENTS

Assignments

WRITTEN DOCMENTS

Tubman on Lincoln and Lincoln on emancipation

FDR, “The Four Freedoms”

Wilson, “The Fourteen Points”

Kipling, “White Man’s Burden”

Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”

IMAGES

South Park History Department

Nicolas Proctor : Owen Duncan : Bill Friedricks : Emily Machen

19^th century

Death of Jane McCrea (USA, Vanderlyn, 1804)

Liberty Leading the People (FRA, Delacroix, 1830)

20^th century propaganda

Gee! I wish I were a man (USA, 1918)

Destroy this mad brute (USA, 1918)

Cultivate Vegetables! (SU, c1930)

Help Build Factories! (SU, 1929)

Hurry to beat up the nobleman! Don’t forget the baron, either (SU, 1920)

Literacy is the path to communism (SU, 1920)

Long Live the Great Stalin (SU, 1938)

Proletarians Unite! (SU, 1919)

Shock Labor (SU, 1931)

The Line for Wrangel (SU, 1919)

Working women take a rifle (SU, 1921)

Wrangel is coming! (SU, 1920)

1950s Comic Books

Nagging = Death (USA, 1948)

Marines (USA, 1952)

SIMPSON ODDITIES

The Scalp Song

The Simpsonian

Campus Day, a History

Daoist Exorcism Ritual

MY BOOK

Bathed in Blood: Hunting and Mastery in the Old South : A suitable gift for almost any occasion!

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