Random History Stuff
I have concluded I will never be able to escape Olaudah Equiano. For those of you who don't know he was a slave in the 18th century who eventually bought his freedom, and wrote an autobiographical piece that became a corner-stone of the early abolitionist movement (especially where England was concerned, though it did reacdh the U.S.).
2003 - Read his Interesting Narrative as his book's called for "Britain and France in the Age of Revolutions" (you loved this class, right Garrett?)
2004 - Read it again for "US History - Colonization to the Civil War".
2005 - Fucking again, for "Colonial Latin America".
2006 - A year off.
2007 - Basic text book exercise with the class, making sure they know how to use an index (this is why it's Special Ed. folks). I get a kid horribly mangle the name, the teacher can't pronounce it...so I have to.
2008 - The first damn thing we do with the kids in the 11th grade English class I'm working in this year, is an excerpt from it. And my Professor for my final class asked if anyone knew who he was ina side-bar, to pin-dropping silence, leaving me to answer it. Thankfully no reading.
It's not that I have anything against the book. It's a pretty good one as a primary source. I just wish I could stop running into it, because it's a topic I have no more interest in.
On a side note, I am horrified to see that those of us who made it through Barnhart's WW1 class paid 66 bucks for Liulevicius' War Land on the Eastern Front. My advisor recommended I take a look at it for my thesis, so I had to dig up my copy, and was shocked by the price-tag on it. The book bill was pretty steep that year.
2003 - Read his Interesting Narrative as his book's called for "Britain and France in the Age of Revolutions" (you loved this class, right Garrett?)
2004 - Read it again for "US History - Colonization to the Civil War".
2005 - Fucking again, for "Colonial Latin America".
2006 - A year off.
2007 - Basic text book exercise with the class, making sure they know how to use an index (this is why it's Special Ed. folks). I get a kid horribly mangle the name, the teacher can't pronounce it...so I have to.
2008 - The first damn thing we do with the kids in the 11th grade English class I'm working in this year, is an excerpt from it. And my Professor for my final class asked if anyone knew who he was ina side-bar, to pin-dropping silence, leaving me to answer it. Thankfully no reading.
It's not that I have anything against the book. It's a pretty good one as a primary source. I just wish I could stop running into it, because it's a topic I have no more interest in.
On a side note, I am horrified to see that those of us who made it through Barnhart's WW1 class paid 66 bucks for Liulevicius' War Land on the Eastern Front. My advisor recommended I take a look at it for my thesis, so I had to dig up my copy, and was shocked by the price-tag on it. The book bill was pretty steep that year.