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That Thing I Do
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That Thing I Do
@thatthingido2
PhD Student
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- Quick point of order: I am a PhD student and I have work that needs turned in regularly, so posts won't be very regular at times. Yes, the account is new, but everyone has to start somewhere. Stay tuned for more historical pattern recognition!
- Today, someone told me to go back to school and study history. They must be new here.
- I stopped discussing history because I was constantly being accused of lying. "Well, that's not true about the Revolutionary War because that's not what happened in 'The Patriot'." Thinking 'The Patriot' is a documentary is too much for me. This is another soldier's fight.
- I put together a more visually appealing historical rupture sequence.
- I know, teach 👋 I just talked about the 1934 Cleveland Conference on Social Studies that's STILL the guiding rule for schools and is responsible for putting social training ahead of academic rigor. It's the textbooks: they aren't written by field experts anymore. Fix them.The key to fixing public education is to bring back something we’ve lost: standards. If you can’t read by the end of 3rd grade, you shouldn’t move on to 4th grade. Make algebra competence the default before high school. Knowledge of U.S. civics should be a condition for
00:00 - A new system of government doesn't get rid of corruption. It just rebrands it. Corruption will always be present because people, at their core, will never stop acting in their own self-interest.
- Did you have family that lived through the dust bowl? What's your family lore and how do you store your dishes?
00:00 - In an 1800's autobiography, a British doctor said American women were so genteel and attractive because Britain sent all their prostitutes (who were generally very good-looking) over to America in the early times.
- My historical prowess lies in contextual analysis. Thanks to digitization, historians finally have access to documents halfway around the world and we can now build the truest picture of historical events. History shouldn't be written based on someone's travel budget.
- Collectivist ideology will never work in America while we still celebrate individualism as the ideal. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
- Two articles are in the pipeline right now: one is under peer review and the other is still at the desk. This week, I start my new research project and I am revisiting the Jamestown 'Starving Time' by examining the colony through modern theories of food accessibility.
- Replying to @captaindashface and @shipwreckshowLaunched me into the stratosphere, those posts did. Can't say thank you enough @shipwreckshow
- Clearly, that's a space to play 'restaurant' with your nieces and nephews. It even has a drive-through window!What will you be using this space for?? 🤔 tell us please!!!!
