It’s that time of the semester again – that is, close to its end. I think just about anyone who’s done the whole college thing would say that the end of the semester, the last few weeks, are the worst. Even if you stay on top of things the rest of the time, things start [...]
US History
Clear those mines, men.
Earlier tooday, while taking a break from writing about “Dulce Et Decorum Est” for my English class, I fired up Company of Heroes. (It’s a World War II real time strategy game; more here). While going through one of the missions, I was a bit amused by one of the upgrades that was available for [...]
On Pre-Columbian Native American populations
As mentioned previously, one of the books that I’m reading right now is Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Society. I just came across this on page 78:
Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent of the [...]
The 19th century blog
In Beyond the River, there were a lot of instances where a person* would send a letter to a newspaper, usually with the intent / hopes that the newspaper would publish it. The newspaper would in turn publish the letter for all to see. Oftentimes, the letter would actually be directed at one person in [...]
Discarding college notes – why did I do that?
When I took a college course on American history, which covered from the initial colonies to 1828, by the end of the course, I had a notebook full of notes, along with the outlines for each lecture (provided by the professor). This summer quarter, I took the next course in the series, which covered from [...]
