By: EEB
There are several years between me and my youngest brother, and I know for a fact “kids today” are improving. (Granted, some of this may be geography, as well.) During the short time I was in school, I...
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A Black female nostalgic for 1800s. What! Did she forget slavery, racism and the Civil War? If she went back to those times she would have been a slave. If she was lucky enough to be a freed slave she...
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Even in the Puritan times pre-martial sex happened even though they condemned it. I heard 1 in 3 women were pregnant when they got married not after the marriage. Of course this meant there were...
View ArticleBy: Bowman
(1) Human “affective forecasting” through time is lousy. Although we can write histories and make plans, psychologist Daniel Gilbert has shown just how unreliable our feelings about those scenarios can...
View ArticleBy: Michael Busch
@Amethyst: The double entendres were the most interesting part of reading Shakespeare in junior and high school, at least for me. By that point, I already knew the plots of the most popular plays, so...
View ArticleBy: Christine
Reading the comments about the majority of people being working-class, I was reminded of the observation that “people from an egalitarian society can fit in just fine in an aristocratic one, as long as...
View ArticleBy: L'Ann
I agree, part of the issue and pick -n- choose, but sometimes there is a fabrication to make what never was. I’m an historian, and it never ceases to amaze and sadden me how some students come in...
View ArticleBy: Terra
As a Latin teacher, I appreciate the defence of my subject. Any area of learning can be an opportunity for increasing empathy and expanding understanding. And Latin provides students and teachers with...
View ArticleBy: Bix
No, she wasn’t adopted. I would understand it better if it was an academic interest, but I think it’s really nostalgia. I found it baffling.
View ArticleBy: not a gator
Sound’s like Cordelia in Bujold’s Shards of Honor/Cordelia’s Honor. Well worth the read!
View ArticleBy: brightie
I found Nesbit through C.S. Lewis, actually… there was a reference at the beginning of The Magician’s Nephew.
View ArticleBy: Whit
Not to put too fine a point on it, but that Belle Époque geography book would have abruptly gone out of date in 1914. Something called “the great war”.
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