The ceremony for the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922 was segregated.

Think about it.

today I cannot stop wishing that I dropped my Phil minor after last semester ( Read more... )

I'll never sleep again. I fell off the wagon in terms of coffee ( Read more... )

Today in class I was told that Stalin was a jerk and Hitler had Spidey Sense.

Last class tomorrow. Thank God.

Today’s Western Civ lecture: the mindset of colonists during the Age of Neo-Imperialism.

We heard about the “White Man’s Burden” from mercantilists and missionaries. At one point I asked if we were going to hear the indigenous perspective on colonialism.

I was told: “Well, I don’t have time to present a graduate school thesis,” i.e. we only have ( Read more... )

I’M 21 ( Read more... )

I would like to debunk the Western assumption that nation-states across ethnic, religious and linguistic boundaries are natural in Europe and the North Western quarter of the world. Or, that such nation-states are a sign of superior civilizations ( Read more... )

It's unsettling to reconsider the basic assumptions in everyday North American vocabulary after studying liberation struggles worldwide. Uncanny, actually ( Read more... )

I got a 110 on my Napoleon quiz ( Read more... )

Last night Mom and I watched The Motorcycle Diaries while Dad was out Republicanizing. We drank a lot of coffee, and afterwards talked about colonialism, racism in America, poverty, and Eurocentric education ( Read more... )