Life Upstate
Welcome to my "new and improved" home-away-from-home
page. Home is Syracuse, the heart of the central tier. I teach at
SUNY
Oswego, where I have the benefit of a view of Lake Ontario and lake
effect weather. I can be reached via email (kay@oswego.edu),
phone (315-312-3418), or fax (315-312-5444). Isn't technology grand? To
keep on top of local news, I ... read the New
York Times. I actually look at the Syracuse
Post-Standard for local news. For up-to-the-minute weather, check out
the weather
page.
History
As a historian of science and medicine, there
are important organizations (and journals). Some of them include:
*American Association
for the History of Medicine
*Bulletin of the History of Medicine
*History
of Science Society
As an American historian, there are other organizations
and journals that are also important. Some of these include:
* American Historical
Association
* Organization
of American Historians
* American
Historical Review and the Journal
of American History
* American
Studies Association
* and the Journal of theAmerican Studies Association
* GAPE primary source documents
* oodles of primary source documents from the
Making
of America
* HistoryNet
* Chronicle of Higher Education Bookstores
If there's one thing I love to do, it's read ...
spending money on books is an investment in the future, knowledge can never
be wasted, and all that good stuff. Books, like life, can be categorized:
* Amazon
* Barnes & Noble
* American
Assn of University Presses
* Hamilton
Books
* American Antiquarian Book Assn
* Powells City
of Books
* Advanced
Book Exchange
* Bibliofind
* Interloc
("the Amazon of used books)
* Bookstacks,
Unlimited (part of Barnes & Noble)
* Feminist
bookstores
Libraries (and References)
All the answers are in books! Great resources
include:
* Penfield
Library
* Yale
Library
* John
Hay Whitney/Harvey Cushing Historical Medical Library
* Catalog @ Center for Research Library
* Libraries
in the US
* Library
of Congress
* American Memory
Project, courtesy Library of Congress
* a Guide
finding Women's History in archives
Cool history of medicine & science stuff,
as well as general interest (to me) sites include:
* National
Library of Medicine
* History
of Medicine online images, courtesy NLM
* History
of theUS Public Health Service images, courtesy NIH
* DeWitt
Stetten Museum of Medical Research (once again, NIH)
* FDA
* National Museum
of American History
* National
Archives digitized images
* Cosmetology
information
* Cosmetology,
Toilet Goods, and Fragrance Association
Travel and other major purchases
*travelocity
*expedia
*or, if it's a pinch, priceline
Fun & Games
In my spare time (?), I check out homepages of
friends & family: from embarassing family pictures on my dad's
homepage, to interesting stuff and great writing on other family
members' pages. Useful things to do netsurfing include looking up new
recipes
to try out on hapless guests, enter
contests, movie information, and
sending virtual presents (because
a picture's worth a thousand words).