Like many students I’ve always struggled at narrowing my area of interest down. I find it extremely difficult to sit down and ask myself questions about an area or subject that interests me, especially how I can work that interest into…
While the rhetoric of the American Revolution glowed with exultations of liberty, freedom, and the equality of all men, these principles did not extend to the entirety of colonial society. The most glaring irony of the Revolution, even since its…
I read Jeremiah Greenman’s perspective on his role as a soldier in the American revolution. He ate a dog that he murdered and left five of his sick, and unable to march, fellow soldiers, in the woods to die in…
Hi, Professor Sleeper and fellow HIST113H classmates. I decided to choose the “Primary Source: Slave Petition for Freedom, 1777” for my primary source perspective analysis. “Natural and Inalienable Right to Freedom”: Slaves’ Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Legislature in…
Hi All, I just wanted to clarify that the meeting scheduled on February 23rd at San Elijo is for Professor Bond and Lane’s classes. Prof. Bond
I found that the reading for this week, “Choosing a Topic” by the University of British Columbia, brought up some very good points. Particularly, the comment that “effective academic writing is not an innate skill or ability” I find to be important…
Hi All, This last week has been a combination of additional introductions, posts on the study of history, and the introduction of topics. If you haven’t yet, respond to some of your colleagues’ posts and start a conversation. Professor Bond…
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