Dear Prospective Students:
I have a natural love of History and Politics that was enhanced by growing up in the colonial town of Williamsburg, VA. From my youngest days, I would walk to school through the colonial part of town. Often, one would see the people going to work in their colonial clothes. A favorite stop in the morning was at the colonial bakery that served the needs of the local taverns. There were many parades marking important events and demonstrations of different crafts...
Dear Prospective Students:
I have a natural love of History and Politics that was enhanced by growing up in the colonial town of Williamsburg, VA. From my youngest days, I would walk to school through the colonial part of town. Often, one would see the people going to work in their colonial clothes. A favorite stop in the morning was at the colonial bakery that served the needs of the local taverns. There were many parades marking important events and demonstrations of different crafts and military exercises. By the time I was eight I was very interested in Archaeology because of the many excavations around town where I often witnessed history being pulled from the earth.
Instruction for Virginia history started in the third grade and was repeated twice more. In our area, Jamestown the first successful English settlement, and Yorktown, where the final battle of the Revolutionary War was fought, are only 15 miles away in opposite directions. Not only were there military engagements on Williamsburg soil in the Revolutionary War, there were significant Civil War battles fought in our area. Williamsburg was also the capital of Virginia where so many of the founding fathers such as, Thomas Jefferson, George Wythe, George Washington, and others were familiar around town. Many important political meetings were held in Williamsburg before the capital was moved 60 miles to Richmond.
Later, I became interested in Western European and Russian history because of the three years more of World History given in Virginia schools. My interest in Classical History was the basis of my major at the University of Denver (although I have more than 30 credit hours of business classes also). Many do not know of the influences that the Greeks and the Romans have on our every day lives. From politics, law, and engineering their influence is invasive. I also furthered my familiarity with English, French, and Russian history, from my own curiosity of those subject matters, because of their influences on World and U.S. his
