Has anyone read The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner ? I was looking through my bookmarks again today and came across this. The feminist in me is curious, the historian in me is curious from a historiographic perspective(oh Jenna, you were so right about that class. It was A LOT of reading but, probably my favorite class this semester), but ( Read more... )

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I happened to have some time today since my original plans all feel apart, so I went through the box my folks decided to put all of my stuff that was on my bedroom floor (a little peeved about that one). One of the things I pulled out was a sheet of class notes from World History II last semester. I had kept it because I have a habit of writing in ( Read more... )

The folks on my friends list who go to Stevenson already know this but, David McCullough, the author of the John Adams bio that they made into that epic HBO miniseries and last year is coming to our school ( Read more... )

Today in World History we were talking about Eleanor of Aquitaine and her "Court of Love". It got me thinking about love and particularly the idea of courtly love. Courtly love is that sort of love that one usually associates with knights and princesses, in which a subservient male tries to do everything in his power to prove his worth to usually a ( Read more... )

I was so busy gallivanting around the corn maze at North Farms after my plans got canceled yesterday that I totally spaced out on my Halloween post, so to make up today we shall have not one but, TWO items for your enjoyment. YAY!

The first is a video on the history of Halloween...because the teacher in me demands that I edumacate the masses.


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This is an entry I just put in my written diary (I'm doing
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