History, especially the US history, and me

2020/06/27 22:09 A second blog series to recall and recommend.

This is about the significance of US history to the people around the world.
This was inspired by attending the oral defense of Cho-chien Feng yesterday at 2pm through web meeting. Here is his resume as of now. 

I knew his dissertation plan for a long time and I had listened to one of his special speeches about some of the content in a special speech gathering of the Taiwanese Association of America in St. Louis last year. I was not inspired of any actions of me until yesterday.

It would help me and the author by having a blog series to talk about and learn from that dissertation. This does not mean that I will study that part of history thoroughly or become a historian. I simply think the history of US revolution is a critical step to knowing more about democracy. 

Here is a rough list of what has come to my mind, before I dig into his dissertation:
  1. Were there immigrants without the heritage of a Britsch or being ruled by a unit of the Britain?
  2. What were the people think outside those 13 states?
  3. How the ideas of democracy were like in that time?

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