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Colonial | 4 (28%) |
Revolutionary | 5 (35%) |
Civil War | 2 (14%) |
WWI | 1 (7%) |
WWII | 4 (28%) |
Modern Era | 0 (0%) |
Votes so far: 14
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Poll Results!
Here are the results from our first poll! My dad and I will be addressing each time period (actually segments of each time period) as we get the blog going. If there's any particular thing you'd like to know more about, please leave a comment and we'll do our best to work it into the blog! The interest seems to lie mostly in the earlier years of our history and we're going to start there of course because this is about an American History Timeline. Stay tuned for more!
Votes so far: 14
Votes so far: 14
Thursday, November 13, 2008
And Then There Was Me!
I'm Christie, the other half of this blog's writing team.
My major interest in history stems from my interest in genealogy. My mom and dad taught me about our family history and in the last few years my interest has developed greatly. I have spent hours upon hours researching our family lines and have traced our ancestry back several hundreds of years. It is always exciting to find a new link!
My developing appreciation for history came about through taking a college history class this semester. The class is "U.S. History thru Reconstruction" and since I can tie my family lines back to dates and places from the beginnings of the colonization of America, it has been that much more interesting to me. I am now able to see the significance of all of my ancestors' lives and how they all relate to my existence here today. My teacher has an interesting philosophy about teaching. She believes that history is best learned and understood through stories, especially about individuals.
My dad and I are going to take that idea and use it here on this blog to bring you stories about history.
My major interest in history stems from my interest in genealogy. My mom and dad taught me about our family history and in the last few years my interest has developed greatly. I have spent hours upon hours researching our family lines and have traced our ancestry back several hundreds of years. It is always exciting to find a new link!
My developing appreciation for history came about through taking a college history class this semester. The class is "U.S. History thru Reconstruction" and since I can tie my family lines back to dates and places from the beginnings of the colonization of America, it has been that much more interesting to me. I am now able to see the significance of all of my ancestors' lives and how they all relate to my existence here today. My teacher has an interesting philosophy about teaching. She believes that history is best learned and understood through stories, especially about individuals.
My dad and I are going to take that idea and use it here on this blog to bring you stories about history.
In the Beginning There was Texas.. Just Kidding!
My love of history didn't blossom until well after my college days and even then it was pretty much restricted to pre-civil war in the South. After a few years of traveling around Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee looking at antebellum homes it suddenly dawned upon me that I had been looking a my interests is such things was based almost entirely from one perspective. That's when I really started learning and loving history. While I enjoy learning the history of just about any place at given time, this blog space will be centered upon American history.
Since I cannot imagine that every reader would be interested in any given time period, Christie and I will arbitrarily pic several time frames and then try to bring each of those time periods to life on a somewhat regular basis. For instance, maybe we'll have Colonial history, then maybe pre-revolutionary war, followed byAmerican declaration of independence and so on and so on and so on.
One of my favorite things to do is to view history from the viewpoint of how events might have affected those whom Thomas Jefferson referred to as the common man. So, while we'll be talking about historical events that most of us has general knowledge of, we'll, hopefully, be able to find some not so famous people who actually lived during any of these time periods see how events affected their everyday life.
John
Since I cannot imagine that every reader would be interested in any given time period, Christie and I will arbitrarily pic several time frames and then try to bring each of those time periods to life on a somewhat regular basis. For instance, maybe we'll have Colonial history, then maybe pre-revolutionary war, followed byAmerican declaration of independence and so on and so on and so on.
One of my favorite things to do is to view history from the viewpoint of how events might have affected those whom Thomas Jefferson referred to as the common man. So, while we'll be talking about historical events that most of us has general knowledge of, we'll, hopefully, be able to find some not so famous people who actually lived during any of these time periods see how events affected their everyday life.
John
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