• BA in History Western State College, Gunnison, CO
• MA in History Northern Colorado University
• Advanced Graduate Work

• University of Wyoming
• University of California at Los Angeles
• Southern Illinois University

• American History I
• American History II
• Progressive America, 1896-1945
• African Civilizations
• History and Culture of West Africa
• Film and  History

The bottom line for history instruction at the turn of the new century is that there has been little change in most history classrooms in 90 years. History instruction still relies on oral-based teaching, centered on the information-giver, with few enhancements besides unreadable scrawls on a dirty chalkboard and the trusty map tucked in one corner. It is an axiom in education that students learn from the models they see at the front of the classroom. If this is true, every history classroom – particularly in a university training teachers – should be modeling techniques that are pedagogically appropriate.

It has been my mission at Southeast Missouri State University to change the old perceptions and create a new teaching reality. History is a visual discipline but most often history instructors use only one sense to help students visualize the past. While it is true that the art of story-telling is important, teachers are more effective if other senses are also brought into play in the teaching and learning process. By using computer-mediated instruction, my classes tend to be visually appealing and interactive. From very positive student evaluations and feedback from peers at national conferences my teaching methods are effective. I have shared my perceptions and expertise in a series of workshops for faculty through the Center for Scholarship in Teaching and Learning on the Southeast campus and in presentations at regional and national conferences. For further information see: Easley, "The Enhanced Lecture."

I also believe that the standard research paper so often assigned by history instructors can be improved. Most history professors still think in terms of printed documents for research and the typed papers they completed in their own education. Though valid as research projects, these "old fashioned" projects do not tap into the types of resources or present the research in a fashion that modern students can relate to. Several years ago I began requiring students in my American History II classes to create a web site illustrating their research. To make the project more relevant, the research topics center around a relative that had an interaction with twentieth century history.  Recently I have expanded the idea into courses dealing with Africa and plan to develop similar programs in my film and Progressive America classes. For further details see Easley/Hoffman, "Reinventing the American History Survey."

• Larry J. Easley, "Focus on Africa: A Film Experience," Interdisciplinary Studies (II: 4) June, 1979, 59-85
• Larry J. Easley. "The Santa Fe Trail, John Brown, and the Coming of the Civil War," Film and History (XIII: 2), May, 1983, 25-33
• Alberta Macke Dougan and Larry Easley, "Introducing Clio to the Computer: The Southeast Missouri State University Experience, " OAH Council of Chairs Newsletter (October, 1993), 8-10
• Larry Easley, "Using Powerpoint: A User’s Guide to Powerpoint 4" (Southeast Missouri State Printing Service, 1996)
• Larry J. Easley, "The Enhanced Lecture: A Bridge to Interactive Teaching," in Writing, Teaching, and Researching History in the Electronic Age: Historians and the Computer. (M.E. Sharpe, 1998 - ISBN 0-7656-0179-6)
• Larry Easley, Southeast Computing: Word Processing, E-Mail, Research (Southeast Missouri State Printing Service, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000)
• Larry Easley and Steven Hoffman, "Reinventing the American History Survey," in History.Edu. (M.E. Sharpe, 2000)
• Larry J. Easley and Steven Hoffman, "Creating the Electronic Classroom: A Practical Guide," The International Journal of Social Education, (15, 1) Spring/Summer 2000, 80-93

• "Cinema and Civil War Historiography: Film as a Reflection of Historical Writing," Missouri Conference on History, March, 1983
• "Development and Presentation of Classroom Materials Using WordPerfect Presentations," Computer Technology Conference, Southeast Missouri State University, April, 1995
• "Computerized History Instruction," Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference, Mufreesboro, TN, April, 1996
• "Historians and the Computer Revolution," Mid-America History Conference, Topeka, KS, September, 1996
• "Computers, the Web, and the Enhanced Lecture," Cincinnati Symposium on Computers in History, Cincinnati, OH, April, 1997.
• "Reinventing the American Survey: Teaching American History in a Computer-Mediated Environment," (Conference of the American Association for Computers in History, Cincinnati, OH, April, 1998)
• "Africa On-Line: Interactive Course Web Materials in African History," (Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference, Mufreesboro, TN, April, 1998)
• "Implementing ‘Technology Serving Learning Summer Institutes for Faculty," (Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference, Mufreesboro, TN, April, 1998)
• "Creating the Electronic Classroom: A Practical Guide," (American Association for Computers in History Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April, 1999)
• "Creating the Electronic Classroom: A Practical Guide," (Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference, Mufreesboro, TN, March, 1999)
• "American History II Revisited," (American Association for Computers in History Conference, Waco, TX, April, 2000)
• "American History II Revisited," (Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference, Mufreesboro, TN, April, 2000)
• "They Can Make Web Pages, Now What? Integrating Curriculum, Professional Practice, and Training to Continue Making Meaningful Use of the Web" (American Association for Computers in History Conference, Indianapolis, IN, January, 2001)
• "They Can Make Web Pages, Now What? Integrating Curriculum, Professional Practice, and Training to Continue Making Meaningful Use of the Web," (Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference, Mufreesboro, TN, April, 2001)