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.