Category: Old

  • Boats versus Horses

    This post represents a thought process and maybe some conjectures. In various historical sources pertaining to the history of the Russian Empire prior to 1900, the means of travel are often obscured in secondary and tertiary sources (monographs, textbooks, articles, etc.), which would explain why this conjecture struck me as being partially novel. However, earlier…

  • Teaching History with Ourselves as Models

    Here’s a thought – let’s use the family as a model for teaching history. I’m speaking as a citizen of the United States, though I believe this model could be useful elsewhere as well. Let’s take for our example the hypothetically average student. He or she belongs to an “average” family of mom, dad, 2.5…

  • Nomads and Nomadism

    In this post I will offer a few lighthearted challenges some common concepts and ideologies that I have encountered during my education. This is not to say that I perceive a deeper knowledge inside my own brain than exists in the outside world, but only that one should be able to throw certain logical queries…