This course imparts to students nontraditional content, including Southwestern regional history, as well as non-book sources of history, including memories of historical participants. In addition, the course will cover techniques in integrating into the curriculum the personal experiences of people, including interviewing techniques, archiving, and technological resources associated with interviewing (such as use of multimedia technology). It will also acquaint the student with developing technological resources in the teaching of American History, such as websites, software, videos.