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New academic society proves history is alive

Published Tuesday, October 9, 2007

During my senior year of high school, the first question any adult would ask me was, “Where are you going to college?”

After I announced to him or her that I would be attending Yale, he or she would quickly follow up that query with, “What will your major be?” When I answered that I was planning on majoring in history, the questioner typically snickered, as if I would be wasting my time, and ended the extremely awkward exchange with, “Why history?”

Indeed, why history? To me, simply put, history has always been fascinating. In elementary school, while other students were...

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