When I retired, I had the GI Bill available to me, and I thought it would be a good time to use it.\u00a0 I wanted to attend a state school, and earn a PhD in History.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough undergraduate history credits to warrant entry into graduate school, so I applied as a non-degree-seeking student to get the undergraduate credits I needed.\u00a0 I could do it in a semester.\u00a0 No biggie.\u00a0 The school said, you already have a degree.\u00a0 Go away.<\/p>\n
Okay.\u00a0 I’ll study on my own.\u00a0 So I’m doing my own reading and evaluating of the subject.\u00a0 The more I read, the more my area of interest expands.\u00a0 I initially started with US history, post-Civil War.\u00a0 Then I started reading Durant’s 10 volume set of world history (I’d never taken a world history course — what a mistake that was).\u00a0 I’m still interested in what prompted the roots of the Progressive Era.\u00a0 I still despise Progressivism (but I do kind of understand some of the things that brought it about).\u00a0 For anyone who thinks today’s attack on American ideals is new, they are sadly mistaken.\u00a0 This is the culmination of a century or more of concerted effort to bring down the free enterprise roots of America and replace it with the Big Government Big Brother State.<\/p>\n
It’s going very slowly, but it is fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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