CityGal

sunnykerr

We also owe X-ray technology and, by extension, the lives of a whole lot of WWI soldiers to Marie Curie.

baelfire24

I did a paper about the Little Rock Nine in my Arkansas History class when I was in 8th grade.

I love the Tudor Dynasty and you're right about the women. I'm more interested in the women than him (especially Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and her daughter Elizabeth I).
I found some great books of the women yesterday on Amazon and I put them on my wish list.

sunnykerr

Catherine Howard is the one I can't get out of my head, when I stop to think about it anyway.

She was just a teenager, and an apparently kinda dumb one at that. She was married off to the old, obese, irrational man. And he got it into his head that she was cheating on him. She had boyfriends/lovers before they married. But, evidently, she got her head chopped off for no other reason than her husband insisted on marrying someone too young and pretty for him to be able to handle the fact that other men lusted after her.

Poor kid.

Jen's Herald

there were only two things that held my interest in school growing up, English Literature and US/World History, i had straight A's in both, pretty much hated everything else, hated math, hated science, but i could read literature until the cows came home, and history was my thing, especially 1600-1900s US history, and European history. i do love reading about all the extinct cultures like the Incas, Aztecs, Toltecs, Mayas, others like the Hopi and Anasazi Indians. i love history mysteries too, like was there really a lost Atlantean civilization. i hope so...

sunnykerr

I was the same. Well, except of course that we didn't get U.S. history here. But I took the six-credit intro course in university.

estiuet78

History was one of my favorite subjects at school

I liked it so much that, until i had back surgery, i worked as an archaeologist and now i'm into cultural management and teaching.

It's great to find here a thread about history and history lovers

sunnykerr

That's an interesting path that you've taken. Where or what period of archaeology are we talking about here?

CityGal

baelfire24

I'm interested in:

1. Both World War I and II
2. Royal History
3. Civil War
4. Civil Rights movement.

sunnykerr

I'm pretty much interested in all of it.

Jen's Herald

i have been doing a lot of reading on the Romanov Dynasty lately, the last Russian royal family, so much i didn't know or thought i knew, so sad about the senseless slaughter of the exiled family, especially the four daughters, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia.

sunnykerr

Tsar Nicholas wrote his first cousin (and identical twin, only not because they were cousins, not brothers) King George V of England for help, asking if they could flee to England essentially. And King George basically said "no," because the political climate in England was leaning xenophobic at that time and he didn't want to compromise the monarchy by doing that.

Anyway, the rest is history.

sourburst

I'm interested in a lot. I travel to one new place a month. February I'm off to the Lake District to see Beatrix Potters home.

sunnykerr

That's cool!

On the way home from Cuba, the movie on the plane was Goodbye Christophe Robin, about AA Milne and the writing of the Winnie the Pooh books and the impact it had on his son... I mean, obviously, the movie was a romanticized version of all of that. But it was good.