The title of this blog is paraphrased from historian Eric Foner. I can't remember what book I read it in. The main point that he was making is that change is inevitable, it is in fact the only constant, and any historian who fails to acknowledge that is basically delusional. And I believe it!
This blog is my experiment in keeping a chronicle of what I learn and do during my two years of graduate school. I will be studying history at Ohio University, majoring in US Foreign Relations, minoring (probably) in Latin American History, working towards an MA. The idea is that what I learn, my readers will learn also, sort of.
I am going to try to use somewhat sophisticated, if not erudite, language. At the same time, since I want people to actually read this, I will try to make it entertaining. I will also try to find an appropriate way to inject my moral and political opinions about what I do, without making this a soapbox. Maybe what I learn in the next two years will shift my ideologies a little. I could hardly consider myself an intellectual if I didn't allow for that possibility. That being said, I don't want to turn anyone away with my own opinions, which, based on one's own opinions, could lead to me being labeled as liberal, Marxist, radical, anarchist, moderate, socialist, leftist, communist, reactionary, centrist, anarchist, or 'Merica hater. I don't necessarily consider myself any of those things, but feel free to do so yourself.
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