In order to finish my long struggle with earning a bachelor's degree in biology, I was required to take a Freshman history class. It was Freshman only enrollment, so I had to beg and plead my way into class. The professor clearly had taught this class too often, but he was a great storyteller in his way and a wealth of information. I ne…
In order to finish my long struggle with earning a bachelor's degree in biology, I was required to take a Freshman history class. It was Freshman only enrollment, so I had to beg and plead my way into class. The professor clearly had taught this class too often, but he was a great storyteller in his way and a wealth of information. I never became a biologist but I did get hooked on history. My favorite history books are the older ones - they often are much more upfront and detailed about the truly horrid history of this country, including the intricate embedded national economics of slavery. And yet we persist in striving toward our highest ideals. I'm reading a book right now, published in 1939, that notes how much of the "old money" in New England was first acquired via the slave trade. As I'm sure Dr. Richardson knows, slaves were sold in Portsmouth NH, just across the border from Maine. History is very complicated and without a doubt one of the most important subjects for students of all ages.
In order to finish my long struggle with earning a bachelor's degree in biology, I was required to take a Freshman history class. It was Freshman only enrollment, so I had to beg and plead my way into class. The professor clearly had taught this class too often, but he was a great storyteller in his way and a wealth of information. I never became a biologist but I did get hooked on history. My favorite history books are the older ones - they often are much more upfront and detailed about the truly horrid history of this country, including the intricate embedded national economics of slavery. And yet we persist in striving toward our highest ideals. I'm reading a book right now, published in 1939, that notes how much of the "old money" in New England was first acquired via the slave trade. As I'm sure Dr. Richardson knows, slaves were sold in Portsmouth NH, just across the border from Maine. History is very complicated and without a doubt one of the most important subjects for students of all ages.