Are you interested in history?
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Yessssss!
I was a history major in college
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Not really. I always hated it in school. I'm moderately more interested in it now, but my interest is still pretty low.
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no and I always struggled in high school and college - just never peaked my interest!
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I voted no, but my answer is really "eh." This is probably a bad answer to have considering I work for a historical society.
I enjoy learning about the Holocaust era and the decades in America leading up to the Civil Rights movement. I work for a historical society whose collections mostly feature Civil War history. I think that's mainly because anything more recent in the collective memory is still sitting in people's attics.
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Yes! History = Context = Game Changer in some respects!
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No. We have a friend who literally ONLY talks about history and it's made me dislike it even more.
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Yes. Another history major here.
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Nope!
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Yessss! I love history. Especially American history. So interesting!
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Another history major here.
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@MsLipGloss: yes and for the reason you mentioned! I don't find all history equally exciting; but I also can't imagine finding no history exciting or interesting - history is how and why we got where we are today!
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Yes. I have a history degree with an art history minor. I also have a Master's in Public History. I love social history so much. It's way more interesting than political to me.
I love/hate the History tab on Pinterest. I love seeing pictures gathered in one place especially a mix of nostalgia and history. However, I hate the medical pics of wounds and oddities. I'm so grossed out by hyperdentia. Nightmares for days.
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@yoursilverlining: I also find it fascinating to layer timelines . . . it is so incredible to me that I never realized that while event A was happening over here, that equally significant/interesting event B was happening over there! In my mind they didn't happen concurrently (because I learned them as an isolated events) . . . such as Shakespeare still being alive when the British began colonizing America!
ETA:
The Eastern Roman Empire fell only forty years before Columbus reached the Americas.
Picasso died the same year Pink Floyd released "Dark Side of the Moon" in 1973 . . . 1973!
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Yes! I get addicted to something and then try to learn as much as I can...repeat, repeat, repeat. My husband is the same way.
Usually disasters. Wars, Titanic, the Hindenburg, the Holocaust, etc.
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I'm interested in some things more than others.
I was always fascinated by ancient Egypt & the Holocaust for example. The Civil War though? Ughhhhh -
I am more into recent events than I am long forgotten history, for example, I felt we spent way too much time learning about the colonies while I was in middle school, there was so much more interesting stuff going on in other parts of the world in the 20th century that we should have been learning about.
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@looch: Your response made me think of the bar scene in Good Will Hunting:
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I'm really interested in the Holocaust but that's about it.
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I'm sort of an other. I LOVE historical fiction, but history as it's taught in schools was always just too dry and boring.
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Yes! And my husband teaches American history so he's a total buff
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Another history degree here. Completely useless for me currently, but I do love history.
@cascademom: I hate that tab too!!!
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@Torchwood: I think that you would like social history a lot. It's more about people than bigger picture, wars, etc. I was fascinated by prostitution in the 1800's with the rise of conspicuous consumption. I wrote my Master's Essay on the response to prostitution in the city since they provided the most useful information, though the accounts in the newspaper were snarky back then. I miss those days of going to the historical society and reading the old newspapers for hours for research.
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@MsLipGloss: my husband was reading me some of these the other day and completely blew my mind. The way history is taught makes it all so flat.
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@cascademom: Yeah, that sounds much more interesting!
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@cascademom: I may go back to school eventually, so I'll try to remember that!
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Yep I enjoy it.
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@Mrs. Polish: I really, really wish that Pinterest would make a tab for medical oddities/paranormal stuff. I'm fine with the murderer pins, but seeing some of the medical oddity stuff makes me want to vomit, run and hide, or find something to snuggle.
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Yep! I was a history major in college. I love European history in particular!
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@cascademom: exactly. I rarely even click on it anymore because it's just not for me.
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@Mrs. Polish: Yes! There are a whole slew of them . . . Washington Monument was completed in 1884, 4 years before Jack the Ripper came on the scene in 1888!
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@Torchwood: I've always been fascinated by the social history of groups instead of the bigger/more well known information. Another fun story. When I was in 7-8th grade, we had to right a paper about someone significant in the 60's. I read a book of biographies of people who lived through the 60's and were part of the civil rights movement, etc. I wrote my paper on one person profiled in this book, not a bigger figure. I didn't do well on the paper, but had my teacher been a bit better guide a la teaching, he could have guided me into social history or at least acknowledged it. It took a few more years before that happened.
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@MsLipGloss: where do you find these? I forgot to ask him. He said something about Egypt too that was hard for me to believe.
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@Mrs. Polish: They're all over the place . . . here are a few more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/26/historical-facts-time_n_4832325.html
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@MsLipGloss: yep. This one. The guillotine one was pretty whoa too.
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@MsLipGloss: I love the overlay thing as well! Some of them just blow your mind when they are put into context.
My husband was born in 1965 – the same year the Civil Rights Act was passed! So when my husband was born, it was still legal to discriminate based on race. The advances we’re made towards legal racial equality are not ancient history, they are *brand new*. People who don’t get how absolutely recent this legislation is don’t (I think) fully appreciate the arguments going on today, especially those surrounding topics like voting rights/voter ID requirements, etc. My husband was 2 when Loving v. Virginia prohibited bans on interracial marriage. We’re talking 1 generation ago people!!
Another fun fact; on the way to a speech in 1912, Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest. Because he’s a fricking badass, he continued on to the speech, talked for 90 MINUTES STRAIGHT with blood trickling down his chest and *then* went to the hospital. Can you imagine that happening today??!!
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Yes, as long as I don't have to memorize anything like in high school!
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Yes! A lot!
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@MsLipGloss: I've seen that movie so many times and had to watch the clip again because it is just so good....
vintage matt damon.
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Yep! History teacher here.
vintage matt damon.
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