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Post by archer on Jun 24, 2009 20:30:43 GMT -8
It's okay! Go talk-a to Mario. I'll-a wait! *waits patiently for hours*
I usually answer to my character's name regardless of what it is. I'm a historian by training but not by trade and have been RPing off and on since the second Clinton administration generally Marvel (DC is for whatever reason MUCH harder to find, done well at least).
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Post by Annabel Caldwell on Jun 26, 2009 6:31:14 GMT -8
I'm becoming an historian by training too! We should hang out. XD
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Post by archer on Jun 26, 2009 8:36:17 GMT -8
Really? What's your era/subject? Regency period shoe fashion? The hunting habits of 1st century China?
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Post by Annabel Caldwell on Jun 26, 2009 9:44:08 GMT -8
I am curreently an undergrad, but when i do specify, I'm torn between Egypt and the Middle Kingdom (I think) or Tudor Era England. So take that!  Totally isn't specific or really in depth, but it's enough to get me started. |
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Post by archer on Jun 26, 2009 13:57:44 GMT -8
Although my main interest is the Post-War era (specfically the social and geopolitical changes brought on by the coming of the Cold War), my thesis was about Gorbachev and the fall of the USSR. Basically, my argument was that he was put between a rock and a hard place. His reforms were too much for the hard-line communists who had a stack in the old system and too little for the reformers who wanted to do away with the whole business.
As for the Middle Kingdom, any particular part of it? The reigns of one of the Amenemhats, perhaps?
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Post by Annabel Caldwell on Jun 27, 2009 22:05:19 GMT -8
You and the graduate adviser at my university would totally get on. She has spent a lot of her time interviewing Cold War Russian dissidents and journalists, and teaches a great many classes on Russia during tsarist, Stalin, and post-Stalin eras.
Something that recently caught my eye is Amenemhet I building the Wall of Princes, especially since the Middle Kingdom was general a peaceful era in Egypt. There was the case of him not being of blood lineage to the throne, which could have inspired him building such fortresses to protect his rule both literally and figuratively, or just a good strategy of building while things weren't all, "I'm going to kill you until you die from it!"
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