I've visited the Old American Century site before, primarily to look over news items. I've posted in three forums, Radio Left's old forum, where I started threads, Bartcop, and Smirking Chimp, where I don't start threads, but answer them.
I like posting over at BC & SC, but I find those forums too large to create an atmosphere in which one can get to know the thinking of others who write regularly.
I am a writer and a historian. I earned my degree in history last spring and I'm working on getting a scholarship to graduate school. I've applied to four schools so far with, understandably, no news yet. My focal area is American history of the Colonial, Revolutionary and Early Republic. I wouldn't mind doing some study of the Civil War, but I believe that post-1865, when the society turned from acquisitive to affluent and from introspective to arrogant, was the end of a truly republican and democratic culture.
We can't bring it back, but it's imperative that every citizen understand what made such individual space for innovation possible. We celebrate the release of so much creativity, yet we do not understand that it was a function of a culture unemcumbered by cloying ideas of loyalty, fealty, and tradition (except in South Carolina, of course).
Once again, I'm very glad to be here and I hope my contributions can be meaningful.

very cool. Welcome!

Welcome fons,
Come on in and set a spell .

LTX

You'll like it here.

Shelter from the storm.

Glad to see you made it... and sorry again for the "bugs" we had on validation of new memberships.

You'll get to know the regulars around here... and thay are a pretty good group. Feel free to jump on in...

And good luck with the applications and scholarships!