Written Assignment 1:  Due on email by Sunday, 6 pm, January 15.  Tell me about your background in history - what have you studied in school, what other interests in history do you have - have you travelled and if so have your travels influenced your outlook on the present, and perhaps even the past?

Click on this map to see a good visualization of the spread of homo sapiens and homo sapiens sapiens in the early eras.

Last August, when the Pennsylvania court was beginning its "trial" regarding the requirement by a local school board that "intelligent design" be included in high school science classes, Verlyn Klinkenborg wrote an Op Ed piece in the New York Times which is relevant to the issues raised by Christina in this week's reading.

One of the most important, but also most difficult, challenges that historians and students of history have is that of putting events or details into their larger and/or proper contexts.  An example of the difficulties of this challenge appears on this link, which I'll go over in class on Thursday.