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Why Does American Schooling Suck?
No, I'm not here for a fight! I'm starting to unpack startling tales from education's own history
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Not a Walk in the Park
NON-BORING HISTORY Thinking about victimhood, courage, and agency, that favorite historian word, on a stroll in Birmingham, Alabama
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The Final Frontier Guy
MEET THE HISTORIAN!/ANNETTE TELLS TALES Let's boldly go with Fred Turner, my ghostly historian neighbor, and seek out why history changes! Yes, it does
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It Would Have Been Us
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Weeping Without Shame For Americans Who Were Cruelly Shamed in World War II
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Unexpected Turns
What prompts historians (and you!) to take interest in new historical subjects? It's personal. 😁
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The Great Exhibition Is Open
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD The First Ever World's Fair Closed in 1851. But Not Really.
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A Difficult Woman Figures Things Out
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Discovering How an 18th Century British Woman Fights Back, and Finds Herself. But Does Anyone Care? Hey, Annette does.
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Going Global, 1500 Years Ago
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Fancy Products and Ideas Travel in the "Dark" Ages
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The Man Who Told the Puritans "Up Yours" (2)
ANNETTE TELLS TALES An Alt-New England Story, Continued
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A Summery Pause
NOTE FROM NON-BORING HOUSE Annette Interrupts Herself, briefly
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A Solitary Man's Family
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Popping into a legendary tree-hugger's house, and meeting the women who made John Muir possible
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How to Be Posh
ANNETTE TELLS TALES Poshness is always in style . . . Lessons from 18th Century Britain and British America
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