Independent Scholar’s Handbook: How to Turn Your Interest in Any Subject into Expertise by Ronald Gross in 1993. Almost any book by Ronald Gross is useful.
Rethinking Careers, Rethinking Academia (Series):
Chasing Chickens: When Life After Higher Education Doesn’t go the Way You Planned by Rachel Neff in 2019.
Independent Scholars Meet the World: Expanding Academia Beyond the Academy in 2021
I worked on aircraft for over 38 years.
Cessna 150, Cessna 150 Aerobat, and Cessna 172.
General Dynamics F-16 A, B, C, and D models as Airframe Repair specialist and Cross Utilization trained as Crew Chief, all systems qualified.
General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark: Serviced and Launched
Lockheed T-33: Aircraft Battle Damage Repair school
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress: Simulated Aircraft Structure in USAF Tech school in Rantoul, Illinois. Tied for First Place in Tech school.
Northrup Grumman E-8 Joint STARS
Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: Started at Boeing working on….
Boeing KC-46 Pegasus
Boeing 747 100, 200, 300, 400, SP, -8, and VC-25 or Air Force One.
Boeing 767
Boeing 777
Boeing 787 Dreamliner
MA in Ancient and Classical History starts 3 Mar 2025 at American Public University.
I am in contact with the University of York (yes, in England) about “going” to a better school.
A PhD in Medieval History would be considered my end goal.
History, sharing Greek origins with political science, also has elements of the ancients-moderns identity crisis, in addition to the other problems of the strictly modern social sciences. As already mentioned, both participants and observers are unsure whether it is a social science or one of the humanities. Its matter is resistant to the techniques of the behavioral sciences, since it is particular, and therefore not easily generalizable, deals with the past, and is therefore beyond controlled experiments, but it does not want to be merely literature. I believe that none of the other social sciences includes history as part of the social science schema, with the exception of that part of political science which is concerned with political practice as opposed to social science, e.g., some aspects of American politics and of international relations. History until the nineteenth century meant primarily political history; and it, unlike political science, was not refounded in early modernity. Its traditional role was enhanced during the new foundings because it told what happened, as opposed to old political science, which told what ought to have happened. Therefore history was understood to be closer to the truth of things. History had to wait until the nineteenth century for its modernization by historicism, which argued, as it were, that being, certainly man’s being, is essentially historical. Historicism appears to have been a great boon for history, a radical step upward in status. But the appearance is somewhat deceptive. Historicism is a philosophical, not a historical, teaching, one not discovered by history. Rather than the prestige of philosophy adhering to history, the reverse occurred. All humanities disciplines are now historical—not philosophy, but history of philosophy, not art, but history of art, not science, but history of science, not literature, but history of literature. Thus history is all of these, but also none of them, because they are discrete disciplines in the humanities. History became the empty, universal category encompassing all the humanities, except insofar as it remained its modest, narrow political self. But because it does not have an anchor in political passion as does political science, it could float easily away from that dock under the influence of the prevailing winds, as politics was depreciated by so many other things, especially historicism. So, history, a wonderful, useful study, full of most learned individuals, is as a whole a medley of methods and goals, six disciplines in search of a self-definition.
The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom, c 1987, p 366-367, fn 17.
Try as I might, I cannot get any account working at Walden University, even though “You have accepted Walden’s offer of Admissions to the MS in Psychology – Tempo Learning® Program” A Competency based MS in Psychology.
My Liberty University account seems to work fine and they have “zillions” of degrees to choose from.
My American Public University account is working and my status is “Graduate Courses for Transfer” which means that I cannot make up my mind.
Hobbies to do:
Amateur Radio
Model Railroading
Collecting things
Magician
Astronomy
Read
Play music
This is the farthest I can trace my family tree back to (so far).
340 AD
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