American settlers 'turned cannibal'
OH, THE IRONY.
July 10, 2012
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June 29, 2012
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destined for academia?
i suddenly realized, that, for fun, i go to the harvard coop with friends to pick out history textbooks to read.
After 15 minutes of reading an 18th C newspaper article, I finally realized that I had been reading “Lady Gage” as “Lady Gaga.”
I think it’s time for a break.
June 4, 2012
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A distant relative, walking in York (England), 1950s. (Note the telephone box - a real life Tardis!)
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life options
- Global/Imperial History MA (ideally at Oxford)
- Animation MFA (ideally at UCLA)
It’s hard to choose between such different worlds.
April 27, 2012
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April 26, 2012
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ANNE BOLIN
IT’S A HISTORY PUN AND IT HAS BOLIN IN IT.
I REALLY CAN’T GET OVER HOW PERFECT THIS IS.
(via madxcrazy)
I misread a crucial part of my primary source and now I have to think of entirely new questions :| :| omg :| :| :|
(I blame the lack of blood circulation in my brain.)
April 23, 2012
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I have been stalling on writing this conclusion for two days.
- What is wrong with me?
- Why hasn’t my professor emailed me to tell me he cancelled the assignment and is giving me an A out of pity?
- Why isn’t my computer capable of writing conclusions on its own?
- And writing titles on its own? My current title is: “I chose a document and I have feelings about history”
- dkjfla;djdklj;iorjzv
April 19, 2012
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British Release of Colonial Papers
“A small amount of relatively pedestrian, bureaucratic material appears to have been passed over to the the National Archives on Aden. It was fewer than 40 files, most dating from 1962-67. They concerned subjects such as oil exploration, issuing of British passports and fisheries. Most of the Aden material is assumed to have been destroyed.”—
National Archives Release Colonial Papers - Guardian.
The Aden material was ludicrous. Given the extent to torture and ill-treatment, detention and protest in that colony in its latter years, it was laughable to see the released files having to do with fisheries.
Most strikingly, the keywords “detention”, “resettlement”, “New Villages”, “reservations” (another quaint word for concentration camps, this time used in Kenya), or “detainee”, don’t even appear in any of the aforementioned files.
It seems to me that the whole release is a whitewash intended to mollify critics and save the government from embarrassment.
This is how the Empire/ex-Empire whitewashes history and carefully hides the truth from future generations of colonized people. The list is long; it has Kenya, Zanzibar, Uganda, Palestine, Brunei among a few dozen other colonized states. Here’s one of the disturbing revelations:
• Britain planned to test a very virulent type of poison gas in what is now Botswana, the colonial archives reveal.
If you want to know how colonizing powers (existing and pre-existing) operate by maintaining strong control over historical narratives, this is highly important to read. History rarely tells the truth.
I love
that moment of epiphany when you know exactly what to write in your essay.
I am finally understanding why my advisor has told me to take history classes with as many professors as possible. I am realizing that I’m turning into him :|
Next thing you know I’ll be a 30-something male with gelled hair and a fixation on California.
