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Gruntled History Teacher

Historical content and musings on teaching history, from a classical school perspective

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The Alcoholic Peasant and the Printing Press

Peering around the historical corner on AI in society

A Cyclops Doesn't Blink at Zeus - Homer's Odyssey, Book 9

The greatest story ever told about Odysseus' name

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Odysseus Finds out He's in the Canon - Homer's Odyssey, Books 6-8

Two teachers talk about Odysseus in Phaeacia

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Inheriting the American Founding

Civilizational inheritance as answer to critics of the American Founding

"Civilization is a Marriage"- Homer's Odyssey, Books 1-5

Two teachers talk about Zeus, the education of Telemachus, and Trees.

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How I Tried to Understand the Thirty Years War

German Geography, Peter Wilson, and C.V. Wedgwood

The Neolithic Revolution: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Civilization was a positive development, and often a miserable one to live through (Five Founding Cities: 2.5)

I Think I Am Finally Beginning to Understand the Thirty Years War

On one of the most notoriously complex wars in history

The Neolithic Revolution: Bottom-up vs. Top-Down

Two different models of social organization (Five Founding Cities: 2.4)

How Magna Carta Became a Big Deal

Who "counts" under the Great Charter