So I'm back from Gettysburg. Actually, I got back two hours ago almost, but it's taken me about an hour to catch up on my flist.

( Gettysburg!!!!!: LOTS of Historical Minutia )

A DECLARATION BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of ( Read more... )

            “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime,” observed Aristotle, and, indeed, history provides several profound examples of this fact.[1] Within the past decade, an economic crisis in Argentina grew into political chaos which resulted in the office of president changing hands five times in eighteen months.[2] The county’s economic ( Read more... )

This year I took a really amazing class, AP US History, which was a ton of fun. This was mostly because it was taught by my favorite teacher, but it was also really fun because this class did Colombus-Civil War, which interests me much more than postbellum (which isn't a word, but I'm making it one) stuff. I did, eventually, have to study the ( Read more... )