ON MY MIND:

As we become more and more digital in our delivery of information I think marketing is going to become even more important. Take for example a great website that some of my colleagues here at UA created called Bisbee Deportation of 1917.
This is a site designed to tell the story of the labor dispute that arose between the copper mining companies of Bisbee, Arizona, and their workforce. Instead of negotiating with workers, the companies resorted to mass arrests and interstate deportation of 1,186 miners. The miners were loaded into cattle cars and abandoned in the New Mexican desert without shelter and only minimal food and water for several days. So far we have heard that many teachers are using it in their classrooms but how do they know about it?

If we do a great job marketing these resources then many students and their teachers will be able to take advantage of reputable sources regardless of the state of their own text books and the restraints of their local budgets.

This means many children will have access to maps, photographs, illustrations that

Only twenty years ago would not be available to them

Marching the IWWs to Warren, July 12, 1917. AHS, Places-Bisbee-Bisbee Deportation, #42669

from

http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/bisbee/primarysources/photogra phs/deportation.html