Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.
it was a case concerning the supreme court's power of judicial review that ultimately set the legal precedent that the supreme court had the power of judicial review
just, "hey guys can we do this?"
"yeah, yeah we can"
"oh!"
i know, right!
there's evidence that the concept of judicial review existed before then but it's amazing how people were just like, oh ok. because really at the time the Court wasn't all that powerful
i think it's a testament to our system that the branch without money or an army wasn't just ignored
the american system of governance has so much potential to create the raddest society
thinking about that is why i'm always so upset that the idea of patriotism has been coopted by jingoes and plutocrats, because fuck that
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
update on stalin-related claims made by me on page 8 or so:
talked to my prof, she said she'll email me a list of sources
I'll put it up once I get it (I'm guessing probably sometime tomorrow)
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AntimatterDevo Was RightGates of SteelRegistered Userregular
i am always in the mood to appreciate terry pratchett and hate on elves
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.
:^:
I need to read the non-City Watch/Moist/Death, Pratchett books
memorizing dates is really a very small part of history and it's study, i think
That is all our AP history teacher ever cared about. He was a total douchebag.
He had this really weird form of note-taking that he insisted all students have a dedicated binder for, and every two weeks he'd check your notes and make sure they were in the proper format. Like, you could be there and taking notes, but if you didn't follow his exact (and really terrible) rules for proper note formatting he would give you no credit. And the notes were like, most of the class's credit. A few years after I left he went off on some racist rant at a black student, and it finally got his ass fired.
That's literally the only thing about his class I remember. Unfortunately teaching attracts some people who'd simply get told off if they tried their bullshit with equals, so they go for teaching because they spend all day in a room where they're always right by definition. It attracts cool people too, but the worst are pretty bad.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
My history professor in college was a pretty cool guy from Kenya named Maurice.
Two years later I guess he fled the university after a student discovered that he had been copying his lecture notes straight from wikipedia.
And when I say flee, I mean it. He heard the allegations and was suddenly gone!
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.
:^:
I need to read the non-City Watch/Moist/Death, Pratchett books
Read Small Gods
read Small Gods immediately
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AntimatterDevo Was RightGates of SteelRegistered Userregular
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.
:^:
I need to read the non-City Watch/Moist/Death, Pratchett books
not necessarily
those are the best books that you mentioned
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lonelyahavaCall me Ahava ~~She/Her~~Move to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
memorizing dates is really a very small part of history and it's study, i think
That is all our AP history teacher ever cared about. He was a total douchebag.
He had this really weird form of note-taking that he insisted all students have a dedicated binder for, and every two weeks he'd check your notes and make sure they were in the proper format. Like, you could be there and taking notes, but if you didn't follow his exact (and really terrible) rules for proper note formatting he would give you no credit. And the notes were like, most of the class's credit. A few years after I left he went off on some racist rant at a black student, and it finally got his ass fired.
That's literally the only thing about his class I remember. Unfortunately teaching attracts some people who'd simply get told off if they tried their bullshit with equals, so they go for teaching because they spend all day in a room where they're always right by definition. It attracts cool people too, but the worst are pretty bad.
My World History teacher in high school was similar. Only awesome.
every day we came into class there was a list of Terms on the board. at least 10, sometimes 20. Also on the board were the names of at least 2 world leaders and 1 classical composer. For the historical Terms we had to provide a definition of the 5 W's (Who, What, Where, When, Why). Once the Terms were copied into our notebooks, we would have a 10 question quiz on the terms from the previous day. Which we would then grade and put into our notebooks.
Notebooks were divided very particularly. The first section was for the World Leaders (whom we had to know their names, countries, titles, and term limitations if applicable). The second section was for the Composers (Dates, country or origin, one famous piece, and style of music). The third section was for our Terms. In chronological order and subdivided by the different sections (ie the periods between exams). The Fourth section was for all of our Handouts that we were given as supplemental study guides. The Fifth section was for our daily Quizzes. The Sixth and final section was for our Exams.
The Exams were ridiculously fun. The teacher handed us all out a piece of paper with 50 Terms on it. The Majority were from the section that we had just finished (for example, Great Explorers). We could choose 25 terms to define from the list of 50. We could do more if we wanted to hedge our bets for extra credit. He would also toss on other Extra Credit terms from the previous sections. Midterms and Final exams were a list of 100 Terms, of which we had to choose 50 to define.
Loved that freaking class. learned a whole bunch, we covered almost everything the teacher could think of throwing at us.
memorizing dates is really a very small part of history and it's study, i think
That is all our AP history teacher ever cared about. He was a total douchebag.
He had this really weird form of note-taking that he insisted all students have a dedicated binder for, and every two weeks he'd check your notes and make sure they were in the proper format. Like, you could be there and taking notes, but if you didn't follow his exact (and really terrible) rules for proper note formatting he would give you no credit. And the notes were like, most of the class's credit. A few years after I left he went off on some racist rant at a black student, and it finally got his ass fired.
That's literally the only thing about his class I remember. Unfortunately teaching attracts some people who'd simply get told off if they tried their bullshit with equals, so they go for teaching because they spend all day in a room where they're always right by definition. It attracts cool people too, but the worst are pretty bad.
My World History teacher in high school was similar. Only awesome.
every day we came into class there was a list of Terms on the board. at least 10, sometimes 20. Also on the board were the names of at least 2 world leaders and 1 classical composer. For the historical Terms we had to provide a definition of the 5 W's (Who, What, Where, When, Why). Once the Terms were copied into our notebooks, we would have a 10 question quiz on the terms from the previous day. Which we would then grade and put into our notebooks.
Notebooks were divided very particularly. The first section was for the World Leaders (whom we had to know their names, countries, titles, and term limitations if applicable). The second section was for the Composers (Dates, country or origin, one famous piece, and style of music). The third section was for our Terms. In chronological order and subdivided by the different sections (ie the periods between exams). The Fourth section was for all of our Handouts that we were given as supplemental study guides. The Fifth section was for our daily Quizzes. The Sixth and final section was for our Exams.
The Exams were ridiculously fun. The teacher handed us all out a piece of paper with 50 Terms on it. The Majority were from the section that we had just finished (for example, Great Explorers). We could choose 25 terms to define from the list of 50. We could do more if we wanted to hedge our bets for extra credit. He would also toss on other Extra Credit terms from the previous sections. Midterms and Final exams were a list of 100 Terms, of which we had to choose 50 to define.
it was a case concerning the supreme court's power of judicial review that ultimately set the legal precedent that the supreme court had the power of judicial review
just, "hey guys can we do this?"
"yeah, yeah we can"
"oh!"
i know, right!
there's evidence that the concept of judicial review existed before then but it's amazing how people were just like, oh ok. because really at the time the Court wasn't all that powerful
i think it's a testament to our system that the branch without money or an army wasn't just ignored
the american system of governance has so much potential to create the raddest society
thinking about that is why i'm always so upset that the idea of patriotism has been coopted by jingoes and plutocrats, because fuck that
Be nice if we weren't so locked into the 2-party system though. We fixed that 3/5ths thing but I don't ever see an amendment happening to give us some political competition.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
edited May 2012
My high school history class, with the teacher I had mentioned, had us take normal tests/quizzes.
But after covering America's reconstruction period following the Civil War he had us do a long-essay as our test. When asked how long he wanted it he simply said, "As long as you feel is worth a good grade."
And thus in an hour & half I wrote six-seven pages till my hand could write no more.
Also it should be noted that during tests/quizzes he would, during moments of extreme silence, blow a whistle/scream to startle all of us.
My high school history class, with the teacher I had mentioned, had us take normal tests/quizzes.
But after covering America's reconstruction period following the Civil War he had us do a long-essay as our test. When asked how long he wanted it he simply said, "As long as you feel is worth a good grade."
And thus in an hour & half I wrote six-seven pages till my hand could write no more.
Also it should be noted that during tests/quizzes he would, during moments of extreme silence, blow a whistle/scream to startle all of us.
Hmm. Was he doing that just to be a dick? Or did he think that there's something to the idea that people make better decisions when they're under stress?
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FandyienBut Otto, what about us? Registered Userregular
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.
:^:
I need to read the non-City Watch/Moist/Death, Pratchett books
Read Small Gods
read Small Gods immediately
i'm literally reading this right now, it is the first discworld i have read
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AntimatterDevo Was RightGates of SteelRegistered Userregular
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.
:^:
I need to read the non-City Watch/Moist/Death, Pratchett books
Read Small Gods
read Small Gods immediately
i'm literally reading this right now, it is the first discworld i have read
that might be a mistake because few of the books are comparable in quality
My high school history class, with the teacher I had mentioned, had us take normal tests/quizzes.
But after covering America's reconstruction period following the Civil War he had us do a long-essay as our test. When asked how long he wanted it he simply said, "As long as you feel is worth a good grade."
And thus in an hour & half I wrote six-seven pages till my hand could write no more.
Also it should be noted that during tests/quizzes he would, during moments of extreme silence, blow a whistle/scream to startle all of us.
Hmm. Was he doing that just to be a dick? Or did he think that there's something to the idea that people make better decisions when they're under stress?
While I'm sure he was doing it just to be a tool, I have found that I shoot better when I have someone yelling at me.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
My high school history class, with the teacher I had mentioned, had us take normal tests/quizzes.
But after covering America's reconstruction period following the Civil War he had us do a long-essay as our test. When asked how long he wanted it he simply said, "As long as you feel is worth a good grade."
And thus in an hour & half I wrote six-seven pages till my hand could write no more.
Also it should be noted that during tests/quizzes he would, during moments of extreme silence, blow a whistle/scream to startle all of us.
Hmm. Was he doing that just to be a dick? Or did he think that there's something to the idea that people make better decisions when they're under stress?
No idea but I'd wager the first.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
Like during one test I had a coke bottle on my desk. While walking around the classroom he suddenly grabbed it and furiously shook it up. Placing it back on my desk he simply said, "Deal with it."
i want to switch majors to history when i go back to college but i am genuinely worried that i'm not smart enough to acquire a college degree
As someone who is a current history major, a lack of smarts is really not something you should be overly concerned about if you choose to major in history.
Do the readings. Purchase a book that describes in detail how to cite in Chicago style, and consider it to be the word of a harsh and unforgiving god.
You are now far ahead of the average history major.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
Like during one test I had a coke bottle on my desk. While walking around the classroom he suddenly grabbed it and furiously shook it up. Placing it back on my desk he simply said, "Deal with it."
My high school history class, with the teacher I had mentioned, had us take normal tests/quizzes.
But after covering America's reconstruction period following the Civil War he had us do a long-essay as our test. When asked how long he wanted it he simply said, "As long as you feel is worth a good grade."
And thus in an hour & half I wrote six-seven pages till my hand could write no more.
Also it should be noted that during tests/quizzes he would, during moments of extreme silence, blow a whistle/scream to startle all of us.
Hmm. Was he doing that just to be a dick? Or did he think that there's something to the idea that people make better decisions when they're under stress?
While I'm sure he was doing it just to be a tool, I have found that I shoot better when I have someone yelling at me.
There's neuroscience involved, kinda. Minor amounts of stress that are unrelated to whatever you're doing apparently gives you a slight edge. The example I've heard bandied about is that you'll tend to do better on a test if you take it when you need to pee.
Also if you're depressed.
So basically what I'm saying is that if you want to ace your final exams, you should accidentally run over your dog/break up with your SO/be diagnosed with an embarrassing and incurable disease the day before and drink lots and lots of water before and during the exam.
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Binary SquidWe all make choicesRegistered Userregular
that might be a mistake because few of the books are comparable in quality
That's true, but the dip in quality isn't that pronounced, unless you go to the beginning of the series. I mean the scene in Hogfather where
they save the little match girl and then throw snowballs at the angels had me in tears it was so funny, especially since I always hated the end of the actual story that Pratchett was referring to.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
My high school history class, with the teacher I had mentioned, had us take normal tests/quizzes.
But after covering America's reconstruction period following the Civil War he had us do a long-essay as our test. When asked how long he wanted it he simply said, "As long as you feel is worth a good grade."
And thus in an hour & half I wrote six-seven pages till my hand could write no more.
Also it should be noted that during tests/quizzes he would, during moments of extreme silence, blow a whistle/scream to startle all of us.
Hmm. Was he doing that just to be a dick? Or did he think that there's something to the idea that people make better decisions when they're under stress?
While I'm sure he was doing it just to be a tool, I have found that I shoot better when I have someone yelling at me.
There's neuroscience involved, kinda. Minor amounts of stress that are unrelated to whatever you're doing apparently gives you a slight edge. The example I've heard bandied about is that you'll tend to do better on a test if you take it when you need to pee.
Also if you're depressed.
So basically what I'm saying is that if you want to ace your final exams, you should accidentally run over your dog/break up with your SO/be diagnosed with an embarrassing and incurable disease the day before and drink lots and lots of water before and during the exam.
update on stalin-related claims made by me on page 8 or so:
talked to my prof, she said she'll email me a list of sources
I'll put it up once I get it (I'm guessing probably sometime tomorrow)
I am giddy with excitement.
Not even kidding.
Giddy.
you're going to be pretty disappointed when it's a list of scholarly tomes and not timecube
In all seriousness, I love counterfactual historical revisionism. The idea that there are scholars still defending Stalinism is actually exciting and fascinating to me.
I mean, I doubt I'll be swayed, but I'm seriously looking forward to a guided tour of Uncle Joe appreciation.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
update on stalin-related claims made by me on page 8 or so:
talked to my prof, she said she'll email me a list of sources
I'll put it up once I get it (I'm guessing probably sometime tomorrow)
I am giddy with excitement.
Not even kidding.
Giddy.
you're going to be pretty disappointed when it's a list of scholarly tomes and not timecube
In all seriousness, I love counterfactual historical revisionism. The idea that there are scholars still defending Stalinism is actually exciting and fascinating to me.
I mean, I doubt I'll be swayed, but I'm seriously looking forward to a guided tour of Uncle Joe appreciation.
oh, come to think of it, she did tell me one that I wrote down
My high school history teachers were a mixed bag. Ninth and tenth grade were with our class advisor, who was in some sort of feud with the administration all the time for a variety of reasons. He was a really nice guy, and I remember thinking his classes were interesting, but I don't have any idea what we learned. Every Friday was really easy quiz day, followed by class meeting day. I went to a really small school, and the other half of our class (we had 30 kids in our graduating class)had him for homeroom.
Things were changed around, and we got stuck with his replacement as both our history teacher and our adviser for 11th and 12th grade, and he was a boring, anal-retentive dweeb.We just copied his awful outlines about the Enlightenment and the Constitution and the Industrial Revolution for two years. I infuriated him by being a "bad" student and getting an A in his dumb classes at the same time. At the end of both years, I made a big spectacle of destroying my notebooks, and pulling my binder apart and recycling everything, and then declaring "Now that is some history right there."
At some point in my senior year, he said something about how my sloppy penmanship and lack of respect for "lectures" (reading your outline in a monotone isn't a lecture) would cause me to fail out of school, so at the end of the year, I turned my binder into an imitation of those paper short order cook hats, and scrawled a big M on it and wore it around school for a few days.
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one of my high school history teachers was actually the shop teacher
the other was an honest-to-goodness history teacher, just one who was very boring
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the american system of governance has so much potential to create the raddest society
thinking about that is why i'm always so upset that the idea of patriotism has been coopted by jingoes and plutocrats, because fuck that
talked to my prof, she said she'll email me a list of sources
I'll put it up once I get it (I'm guessing probably sometime tomorrow)
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I need to read the non-City Watch/Moist/Death, Pratchett books
Let's go drink beers and watch college football.
That is all our AP history teacher ever cared about. He was a total douchebag.
He had this really weird form of note-taking that he insisted all students have a dedicated binder for, and every two weeks he'd check your notes and make sure they were in the proper format. Like, you could be there and taking notes, but if you didn't follow his exact (and really terrible) rules for proper note formatting he would give you no credit. And the notes were like, most of the class's credit. A few years after I left he went off on some racist rant at a black student, and it finally got his ass fired.
That's literally the only thing about his class I remember. Unfortunately teaching attracts some people who'd simply get told off if they tried their bullshit with equals, so they go for teaching because they spend all day in a room where they're always right by definition. It attracts cool people too, but the worst are pretty bad.
Two years later I guess he fled the university after a student discovered that he had been copying his lecture notes straight from wikipedia.
And when I say flee, I mean it. He heard the allegations and was suddenly gone!
Crawled out the window just like Dr. Jones
I love it when Legolas and Gimli were competing over ork kills though.
Naturally.
Read Small Gods
read Small Gods immediately
not necessarily
those are the best books that you mentioned
My World History teacher in high school was similar. Only awesome.
every day we came into class there was a list of Terms on the board. at least 10, sometimes 20. Also on the board were the names of at least 2 world leaders and 1 classical composer. For the historical Terms we had to provide a definition of the 5 W's (Who, What, Where, When, Why). Once the Terms were copied into our notebooks, we would have a 10 question quiz on the terms from the previous day. Which we would then grade and put into our notebooks.
Notebooks were divided very particularly. The first section was for the World Leaders (whom we had to know their names, countries, titles, and term limitations if applicable). The second section was for the Composers (Dates, country or origin, one famous piece, and style of music). The third section was for our Terms. In chronological order and subdivided by the different sections (ie the periods between exams). The Fourth section was for all of our Handouts that we were given as supplemental study guides. The Fifth section was for our daily Quizzes. The Sixth and final section was for our Exams.
The Exams were ridiculously fun. The teacher handed us all out a piece of paper with 50 Terms on it. The Majority were from the section that we had just finished (for example, Great Explorers). We could choose 25 terms to define from the list of 50. We could do more if we wanted to hedge our bets for extra credit. He would also toss on other Extra Credit terms from the previous sections. Midterms and Final exams were a list of 100 Terms, of which we had to choose 50 to define.
Loved that freaking class. learned a whole bunch, we covered almost everything the teacher could think of throwing at us.
Democrats Abroad! || Vote From Abroad
Be nice if we weren't so locked into the 2-party system though. We fixed that 3/5ths thing but I don't ever see an amendment happening to give us some political competition.
But after covering America's reconstruction period following the Civil War he had us do a long-essay as our test. When asked how long he wanted it he simply said, "As long as you feel is worth a good grade."
And thus in an hour & half I wrote six-seven pages till my hand could write no more.
Also it should be noted that during tests/quizzes he would, during moments of extreme silence, blow a whistle/scream to startle all of us.
Hmm. Was he doing that just to be a dick? Or did he think that there's something to the idea that people make better decisions when they're under stress?
i'm literally reading this right now, it is the first discworld i have read
that might be a mistake because few of the books are comparable in quality
While I'm sure he was doing it just to be a tool, I have found that I shoot better when I have someone yelling at me.
No idea but I'd wager the first.
As someone who is a current history major, a lack of smarts is really not something you should be overly concerned about if you choose to major in history.
Do the readings. Purchase a book that describes in detail how to cite in Chicago style, and consider it to be the word of a harsh and unforgiving god.
You are now far ahead of the average history major.
he read the writing on the wall
This is awesome.
I am giddy with excitement.
Not even kidding.
Giddy.
I'm pretty sure he will get tenure.
There's neuroscience involved, kinda. Minor amounts of stress that are unrelated to whatever you're doing apparently gives you a slight edge. The example I've heard bandied about is that you'll tend to do better on a test if you take it when you need to pee.
Also if you're depressed.
So basically what I'm saying is that if you want to ace your final exams, you should accidentally run over your dog/break up with your SO/be diagnosed with an embarrassing and incurable disease the day before and drink lots and lots of water before and during the exam.
That's true, but the dip in quality isn't that pronounced, unless you go to the beginning of the series. I mean the scene in Hogfather where
you're going to be pretty disappointed when it's a list of scholarly tomes and not timecube
I am taking notes here
In all seriousness, I love counterfactual historical revisionism. The idea that there are scholars still defending Stalinism is actually exciting and fascinating to me.
I mean, I doubt I'll be swayed, but I'm seriously looking forward to a guided tour of Uncle Joe appreciation.
oh, come to think of it, she did tell me one that I wrote down
I think this is it:
http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Great-Purges-Reconsidered-Post-Soviet/dp/0521335701/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338350023&sr=8-1
obviously I haven't read it so I can't speak to its thesis
but my school library has it, so I'll look it up when I head out there tomorrow
she also said that she'd give me a list of sources that she considered both good and bad
edit: I'd just also like to point out that neither myself nor this professor ever said Stalin was a good guy
or even not a bad guy
just that he's not as bad as is commonly agreed upon
Things were changed around, and we got stuck with his replacement as both our history teacher and our adviser for 11th and 12th grade, and he was a boring, anal-retentive dweeb.We just copied his awful outlines about the Enlightenment and the Constitution and the Industrial Revolution for two years. I infuriated him by being a "bad" student and getting an A in his dumb classes at the same time. At the end of both years, I made a big spectacle of destroying my notebooks, and pulling my binder apart and recycling everything, and then declaring "Now that is some history right there."
At some point in my senior year, he said something about how my sloppy penmanship and lack of respect for "lectures" (reading your outline in a monotone isn't a lecture) would cause me to fail out of school, so at the end of the year, I turned my binder into an imitation of those paper short order cook hats, and scrawled a big M on it and wore it around school for a few days.
the other was an honest-to-goodness history teacher, just one who was very boring
though he did have us read Hiroshima