Tools, Notices and Thanks

Copyright Notices

About the maps

Most of the maps at this site are taken from Centennia, a DOS-based program from Clockwork Software, Inc. and are placed here by specific permission of that company. Each map has the Clockwork copyright as part of the image.

That copyright means that these maps are placed here for educational purposes only and no one may reproduce or otherwise use the images without permission from Clockwork Software.

You can request permission by sending e-mail to clockwk@delphi.com.

Other Copyrights

I have tried to be conscientious and respect copyright in putting this course together. As far as I know, I haven't violated anybody's rights. If any publishers out there feel that something here at this site violates their copyright, please send me a note at elknox@bsu.idbsu.edu and we can talk.

Since this is a Web site, it is inherently public. My intent is that others can use the information here for their own educational purposes, either personally or in a classroom. I especially hope this site will be a resource to other teachers.

Note well, though, that the maps from Clockwork Software are specifically excluded from this sort of usage. If you want to use those maps, you'll have to ask Clockwork Software. Sorry -- their program, their rules.


Thanks

Lots of people helped me. I hope I remember everyone here.

Greg Jahn, for getting me started in the wonderful world of Unix.
Ben Eichelberger, for keeping me there.
The lab assistants at the BSU Faculty Computer Lab: Jen Bedient, Jim Foster, Dean Staack, Cindy King and Matthew Miller, for helping with both text and graphics scanning.
A big thanks to Nancy Ness and Bill Jensen in BSU's Continuing Education Department, who have consistently been willing to experiment with both medium and course structure.
Mike Urizar, who actually understands IP and who takes the time to explain its mysteries whenever I ask.
And thanks to the Internet community in general, for inventing and sharing all these wonderful toys.


Tools I Used

For the maps

Centennia, from Clockwork Software. This is an outstanding tool for historians, unmatched by any other program I've found. A thousand years worth of maps for under a hundred bucks. Click here to download a demo version that covers the late 1700s. If you're a European historian, you want this program.

For the pictures

Some pictures come from other sites. The rest were scanned on an HP ScanJet. I used (the lab assistants did most of the work!) Dr. Halo to convert the images to JPG or GIF.

In addition, I've used both Arts & Letters and Corel for various draw and paint tasks. Both have their good points and their drawbacks.

For text

I tried lots of approaches. I wrote some of the longer documents in WordPerfect 5.1 and then ran a nice macro by Hunter Monroe that converted the text to HTML. There are similar tools for WinWord.

I used the same approach for marking up scanned text (I used Omnipro to do the optical character recognition). This was mostly for the Burckhardt text. It was tedious, but less so than doing everything by hand.

I did lots of editing directly in Unix, using Pico. I found that editing in place was often the fastest. But then I have used many text editors and can learn new ones fairly quickly.

I tried using HotMeTaL and HTML Assist, but to me they did not save me much time. The Windows interface was nice, because I do most of my work in that environment, but the real killer was DOS. All files done locally could only have .htm for a file extension. Once on the Unix machine, though, they had to be named .html and that renaming process got old pretty fast.

So, most of the text was editing in-place.

Web browsers

I began by using Mosaic, switched to Netscape, and now use both. I also check out the Mac versions from time to time, to test how my screens appear on various platforms.

Network tools

I work on an Ethernet network running both Netware 4.x and TCP/IP using LAN Workplace from Novell. The LWP stuff gives me FTP, Telnet and the other basic TCP/IP services.

From home I use Trumpet to handle the SLIP stuff over a 14.4 modem. Especially for doing mail and doing development work, that's plenty fast enough.