Any history buffs here?

Ever see a stool that folds and has a back, made from 2 lengths of wood?
We saw one at a reinactment at Jackson's Mill in Lewis Co WV. The man just pulled it apart and laid it up when he got up. Wish I had looked at it closer. If I recall it fit together through a hole in one board. And, looked comfortable!

junk, yes I had a couple of those, basically an "X", with the seat fitting thru a slot in the back, got them in a trade, and ended up swapping them off for something else?

Lot of that happening at Rendezvous, like the old days, bring your goods in and trade, swap, sell for some thing you need and something someone else has.
Think I'm gonna start a thread over on the Great out doors area, so as not to step on this one.

I found some great books on that 1918 flu epidemic at the library the other day, but in the meantime, I found a new book called "The Colony"

it is VERY interesting & I had never heard of this before!!

here's a NY Times article about it

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/bo...erland&emc=rss

according to the article, I better take the book with a grain of salt (like others were saying above)

We watched the movie "MUNICH" last night - wow - what a great one - it's a Steven Spielberg

check it out!

Yes! Historians are not only influenced by the circumstances of their own lives, but also of the academic climate in which they are writing. My master's is in History, and one of the first classes almost any History grad student has to take is Historiography, how and why history is written the way it is or basically, "The History of History". The way historians view history has changed dramatically in just the last hundred years. Some of this is because new primary sources appear all the time, and new knowledge has a tendency to change how people understand things. New social additudes, things like the suffrage movement and the civil rights movement, had a dramatic impact on how history was written and understood. Even the impact of mathematics during the 60's influence historians took look at statistics and population data and such.

I hope that answers your questions and doesn't sound to pedantic. I'm a historic geek and sometimes I go overboard!

History is nothing more than an agreed upon set of lies. Napolean Bonaparte!

Tate, thanks,

It is not a new thing, but since I have lived through a little history, I see it being slanted - not just through a social viewpoint - as in 'this is how I saw it' - but as a deliberate thing to promote an agenda. Since there really isn't much new under the sun where human behavior is concerned, it really makes me look at history a little harder and with more skepticism. I still enjoy it, however, just don't buy it all.

In doing some unpacking this week, I came across a little book entitled "When I am an Old Coot" and it goes through all the things the author will do. One of them was,

"When I am an old coot, I will enroll in college, take a history course, and argue with the teacher when he/she is wrong."

I thought of this thread.