General

Well, here goes. American history with a Constitutional overlay, the ethical contradictions, the beauty of change and correction. On s more personal not: American antiques, mechanical weight driven clocks,early construction and art.

I enjoy reading various bits of history in a non-academic context. Also well researched novels set in historical periods can help bring a time and place alive. I'm kind of scattershot, but roughly speaking I like those transition times and starting of things points. When the fur trade was spreading through Canada, dark ages Europe or just after the black death, as Protestantism was spreading through Europe, archeology of very early humans, things like that.

But my wife has an MA in history, so I leave the heavy historical lifting to her.

I’m an artist but my LDR is a a historian, so after meeting him I got super into history, with interests in the history of the former Yugoslav countries and monuments in particular.