Shout out Dr. Robins. She kept it real in the insanity factory that was my right wing evangelical undergraduate institution.
Dr. Robins class was hard, but it gave me the tools to understand that ideas, concepts and views of history did not fall from the sky. Instead, history is built on the work of people who came before, and you can find out who’s shoulders you are standing by following the citations.
These citations form a network of ideas.