About me

Ok, to get started, I wanted to give you a little more info about myself. My name is Jill. I'm 27 years old and from Texas. I have a double degree in History and English from the University of Houston. I'm currently applying to graduate school to get my Masters so I can work in the Public History field (museums and such). I have absolutely no desire to be a teacher!

I love all kinds of history, though my passions are the Tudor dynasty and the American Revolution. I'm a pretty avid reader and collect pretty much any book I can get on both eras. I (apparently unlike many bloggers/historians) enjoy the television and movie adaptions as well as historical fiction, mostly because I'll watch it and want to learn what really happened. People tend to forget it's a dramatic interpretation and not an outright documentary and they get mad over the slightest wrong detail. I can write a long post on that later, so I'll stop talking about it for now.

I personally believe that if you sweep or ignore the bad parts of history than you are only dooming us to make the same mistakes again. As a result, I'll try to touch on the nastier sides of history and be as unbiased as I can. Instead of hiding history, I'm putting it forefront. That includes massacres, discrimination, prejudice and inhumane horrors and EVERY country has committed something along those lines in some way or another.


Anyway, that's all about me for now. Oh, except I've also started two other blogs because I really couldn't decide what I wanted to blog about. ;) Please feel free to check them out as well.

One is a Tudor blog, discussing anything and everything Tudor related from the entire time they were in power. It's called My Lords and Ladies:

http://mylordsandladies.blogspot.com/

The other is an American Revolution blog, looking unbiased into each side and the charismatic people from both sides. It's called The Revolutionary Experience:

http://therevolutionaryexperience.blogspot.com/