• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    my history professor friend thought that if you could cork board and yarn it together, see what led to what and influence what, who cared if you got the dates slightly wrong. you had the tapestry and the big picture. you could get the letters and the individual stories. that’s history

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      Yeah, sometimes a date is important, and you end up remembering a lot of them anyway, but generally, just knowing the story is all you need, and that’s the fun part anyway.

      Date Anxiety has kept more people from enjoying history than anything else.

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        4 hours ago

        woof tell me about it the hot chick in the front row in history 204?

        edit: wait, she was in the center row in Industrial Design. Dear gods i don’t remember college At All. Those must have been good drugs back then.