Media Use of Place

• Media Beat: The Parent Trap is a review of the geographic content of this recent remake.: Media Beat: The Parent Trap. Dakota Alliance9(4): April-May 1999: 7.
• Media Beat: Seven Years in Tibet is a review of the geographic content in this major film: Media Beat: Seven Years in Tibet. Dakota Alliance Summer (July) 1998: 6-7].
• America via Television is a summary of Dr. Meartz's presentation on his research into how America is presnted on American television. This presentation has been given in numerous places.
• James Michener Dead at 90, geography and the novel explains the significance of Michener's work to geography [Dakota Alliance, November-December 1997: 1]
• Media Beat: The Matchmaker is a review of the geographic content in Janeane Garofalo's film trip into village Ireland: The Matchmaker. [Dakota Alliance, November-December 1997: 5-6]
• Literary Corner: Mapping a Changing World is a review of Yvette La Pierre's middle school text on the history of mapping. [Dakota Alliance, November-December 1997: 6-7]
• Media Beat: French Kiss is a review of the geography in French Kiss [Dakota Alliance 6(2): November-December 1995: 6.
• Media Beat: South Pacific is a review of South Pacific. [Dakota Alliance, January 1995: 7]
• Geography in the Media: Cabaret is a review of the famous musical. [Dakota Alliance, January-February 2001: 7]
• Geography in the Media: Tommy is a review of the famous rock opera. [Dakota Alliance, March-April 2001: 11]
• Geography in the Media: Mutiny on the Bounty is a review of the famous movies. [Dakota Alliance, Summer 2001: 7]
• Geography in the Media: The King and I is a review of the geography in this famous musical film. [Dakota AllianceXI(4): September-October 2001: 7.]
• Geography in the Media: Lawrence of Arabia is a review of the geography in this famous film. [Dakota AllianceXI(5): December 2001-January 2002: 7.]
• Geography in the Media: Cleopatra is a review of the geography in this famous epic. [Dakota Alliance XII(1): February 2002: 7.
• Geography in the Media: Endless Summer is a review of the geography in the famous surfing film. [Dakota AllianceXII(3): Summer 2002: 7.}
• Geography in the Media: Monsoon Wedding is a review of the cultural contrasts and geography in this film. [Dakota AllianceXII(4): September-October 2002: 7.]
• Geography in the Media: Shogun is a review of the cultural contrasts and geography in this film. [Dakota AllianceXII(5): November-December 2002: 7.]
• Geography in the Media: Whale Rider is a review of the cultural contrasts and geography in this film. [Dakota AllianceXIII(5): November-December 2003: 7.]
• Geography in the Media: Peyton Place is a review of the cultural contrasts and geography in this film. [Dakota AllianceXIV(1): January-February 2004: 7.]
• Geography in the Media: A Summer Place is a review of the cultural contrasts and geography in this film. [Dakota AllianceXIV(2): April-May 2004: 7.]
• Geography in the Media: Love Story is a review of the geography in the film. [Dakota AllianceXV(2): April-May 2005: 7.]
• Geography in the Media: Ride the Wild SUrf is a review of the geography in the film. [Dakota AllianceXV(3): Summer 2005: 7.]

Teaching Methodology and Issues

• Using Travel Tapes in Class concerns the use of travel-related videotapes in K-12 classrooms.. [Dakota Alliance, November-December 1998: 4-5]
• Simple Notes on Using Drama in the Geography Classroom [December 20, 1999]
• Simple Notes on Using Bulletin Boards in the Geography Classroom [December 20, 1999]
• Simple Notes on Using Art in the Geography Classroom [December 20, 1999]
• Clout concerns the power of Senators from Smaller Population states. [Meartz, Paul D. 1993. Clout. Dakota Alliance 3 (August): 2-3.]
• Salt, Flour, and Water Maps provides an introduction to the making of salt, flour, and water maps.
• Gravestones Provide Glimpse of History examines the possibilities for local fieldwork using gravestones in your local cemetery. [Meartz, Paul D; Edkins, Fayaleen; and Sondrol, Ronald. 1989. Gravestones Provide Glimpse of History. North Dakota Department of Public Instruction Perspective (December): 4.

Political-Geography

• Is North Dakota a Part of the Third World concerns statements that North Dakota is a Third World place. [Dakota Alliance, May 1991; reprinted November-December 1999: 5-6]
• A Model of the East-West Division in North Dakota Politics. Bulletin of the Association of North Dakota Geographers Vol XL (1990): 24-31.
• Cultural Factors in the December 5, 1989 Referendums in North Dakota. Paper presented at the Association of North Dakota Geographers Meeting, Mayville, North Dakota, December 9, 1989.