Hello! The first assignment for the orientation component of the 2011 Beijing Field School is due on Wednesday (6-22-11), and entails reading the Jeffrey Wasserstrom book. You can find the detailed guidelines here.

Remember to post your assignment in the blog stream, and categorize it as “Assignment A” so that it will be easy for all of us to gather the responses in one place. Feel free to use any tags you’d like, as these will help further specify the content of your response. In order to take advantage of this online format, and have us all in dialog with each other, do add comments to your fellow student’s posts.