Introduction

This blog is designed as an integral part of your course. As I have mentioned in your syllabus, you are expected to contribute regularly by either answering to the major questions raised during the lectures or recording your reactions to the reading assignments scheduled for a given week. It goes without saying that your final grade depends to a large extent on the frequency of your contributions as well as the depth and relevance of your comments.

That said, you should view the blog not as an unavoidable onus constantly hovering over your harassed conscience, but as a chance to express your opinion in a relatively unconstrained and undogmatic environment. With the course offering your an opportunity to explore your temporal whereabouts, the blog should evolve into a forum wherein you could share your discoveries and revel in the discoveries of your colleagues. Hopefully this exchange of opinions will initiate you into the intra-subjective nature of history as a process, the mysterious entwining of individual experiences into a complex unity of shared fate.