Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
I'm with scout but with a reservation… they supplied most of our powder as I remember but we were grinding down the resolve [as insurgent movements seem to do]. Many English swear wd didn't win but that they turned us loose thinking we'd fold and return in due time.The money problems that led to the Fr-Rev were in large part debits run up helping us. Couldn't pass on a chance to stick it to John Bull!
In a nutshell, quick and dirty, Phil is the posterboy for too little, too late. His father had made peace with the settlers (good to have friends with guns) hoping to keep them under control and minimize encroachment. As I remember it also had to do with tribes to the west of the Wampanoags being pretty tough (so couldnb't move away from the whites…) :oBy the time Phil went on the warpath the with the pale faces had a very strong militia and the rest is, as we say, history. Phillip was hunted down and killed and most of the rest of the tribe sold off into slavery.
Not his best work IMHO but the idea that it is the sum of the parts that result in Wester Civ or at least that end of it seems okay. Liked How the Irish… much better.
….Anyway, seems to me like the speech is a bit long for students to sit through and that it should have been cut down a bit (though I could be wrong here). Also, the last line, “Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America” makes me wonder whether this will rile the ACLU and hard-core liberals….
The principal at my old HS said this… “The mind can absorb only what the posterior can endure.” I agree on the ACLU point too.
Interesting material. Years ago (waaaaaay more than the 15 years that passed from class to article) a very wise Prof at that same institution, when asked to compare CSUC* with the major Universities he'd visited on sabbatical replied, “You can get a pretty good education if you can wade through the bullsh*t.”[rant]*California State University-Chico; at the time I quizzed my ol' history prof, we were just changing to that monicker from Chico State College. The reality was, is, and always will be the school was originally a Normal School… intending to train teachers. Sadly the name change was also the beginning of the decline IMHO… went from teaching people to help people learn to teaching people to teach people what to think. Interesting too that the ol' history prof had no formal degree (challenged the BA, except for a math and a health class) and got the MA for a Pulitzer Prize nomination (deserved!); in another book, that he edited, he finished the intro with these words, “… con razon.” With reason indeed, that must have left when the ol' prof died.[/rant]
…do historians ever act as quasi-archaeologists, or archaeologist tag-alongs? … have to fly in an archaeologist who is an expert in that time period, or do they just get any archaeologist to conduct the dig and bring in a local historian who specializes in that period (e.g. university professor) for consultation?
If they are worth a darn.
An example in America might be if someone if a sewer line is being put in somewhere in small town Ohio, and they find artifacts that are unusually early (say from the 17th century). If none of the nearby archaeologists are versed in that time period, what do they do?
As above… call in the right folks; or compromise the project, dooming it to critics from all sides.BTW, best anthropoligist I ever ran into was originally an undergrad in geography. Terrific teacher and widely regared exp. on the Aleutes.
The Piltdown man forgery of 1912 is an amazing example of anthropology/archeology gone awry….
Sadly, hoaxing will be around as long as we are… one born every minute, and two to skin him.
He couldn't use his own urine because the testosterone in older male urine can be detected.
A real pisser.
I'm a believer that geography (where we are, what it is like there, and what Mama nature deals us)influences our culture (antro / arch evidence; what we do with our geography) and culture influences our history (what we are like through time).
As the English weren't (still) too fond of having lost the colonies, France exerting some push on the new USA wouldn't have bothered them much… we would likely have gone back to them for help and they would never pass on a shot at France.While Napoleon would have liked to regain holdings in the New World his debacle in Haiti was costly and the only way to recover and recoup was to sell off the L-T… having rooked Spain out of it. Please remember France had given over the L-T to Spain after the French and Indian War to make good some of their losses suffered helping against England.I go with the idea that Napoleon thought he could sell us the L-T; defeat the rest of Europe (bankrolled with the proceeds); get England to help him re-establish New France as the price to either not invade the Isles or a con to help them get the colonies back.Beware of the Frenchy selling big chunks of land that they gave away and stole back. 8)
So wouldn't that have made RFK a kind of carpet bagger if he was representing NY?
Yes, just as Nixon having moved to NY would have been if he'd run (after the CA Gov. race… odds were that that was a possibility) and as HRC was. New York seems not to have much problem with this sort of thing.
Interestingly, over the past few days they've had a number of Kennedy family documentary-type stories on TV. In one of them JFK is quoted as saying that when he first ran for Congress he felt like a bit of a carpet bagger since he had resided for many years outside the district that he eventually ran in. He also recalls that his days at Harvard didn't really endear him to his district.Seems like TMK/EMK may have been the only non-carpet bagger brother, but I'm not totally sure about this.
True enough… they “held” ther seat for him (appointed a stalking horse until Ted was 30 YOA).
Bobby was Sen. from NY (McCarthy was Minn) and had just won the CA Pres. primary. Shooter was a Palastian (Sirhan B. Sirhan; still serving time). I was a Jr. in HS studying for finals and stopped to check the results on the late news….
