American History Makes Me (More) Sick
I read my friends' page last night, and wondered why I was the healthy one. Now I know-- because my body decided that it wanted to screw me out of six-plus hours of work today. Grr.
I'm feeling better (much less pukey than this morning), but I've developed a fever at some point in the last two hours. Not to mention I'm exhausted and have pretty much been in bed all day.
And I still have history homework to finish. Granted, this deluge of reading questions has helped me to discover why I loathe taking American history classes as opposed to, oh, anything else historical: we have so little history as compared to other countries (especially the European nations and the Far East), authors and scholars bog their texts down with minutia just to make the size similar in comparison. If we glossed over U.S. history the way we gloss over everybody else's, we could seriously fit it all into one semester or less. I mean, really, Western Civ covers the development of, gee, ALL OF EUROPE in two semesters. One year for about four-thousand years of history. Meanwhile, American history courses struggle to get through less than four-hundred years in the same amount of academic time.
Guess I'm going to stop complaining and finish my homework. Don't get me wrong-- the Colonial and Revolutionary periods are very exciting and fun to read about. I just hate wading through all of the meticulous details to arrive at the heart of the text.
But then I'm going to bed. And staying there for the rest of fucking ever.
I'm feeling better (much less pukey than this morning), but I've developed a fever at some point in the last two hours. Not to mention I'm exhausted and have pretty much been in bed all day.
And I still have history homework to finish. Granted, this deluge of reading questions has helped me to discover why I loathe taking American history classes as opposed to, oh, anything else historical: we have so little history as compared to other countries (especially the European nations and the Far East), authors and scholars bog their texts down with minutia just to make the size similar in comparison. If we glossed over U.S. history the way we gloss over everybody else's, we could seriously fit it all into one semester or less. I mean, really, Western Civ covers the development of, gee, ALL OF EUROPE in two semesters. One year for about four-thousand years of history. Meanwhile, American history courses struggle to get through less than four-hundred years in the same amount of academic time.
Guess I'm going to stop complaining and finish my homework. Don't get me wrong-- the Colonial and Revolutionary periods are very exciting and fun to read about. I just hate wading through all of the meticulous details to arrive at the heart of the text.
But then I'm going to bed. And staying there for the rest of fucking ever.