Three Down, 30 To Go

I have finished my first graduate school class, and have ten to go. I have earned three hours of the required 33. I earned an "A," somehow. We never did get a syllabus, so it was all fuzzy expectations.

Here are some conclusions about Twentieth Century European History:

• The Nazis and Fascists were not right-wingers. They were socialists.
• Europe was not a seething cauldron of anti-Semitism in the early part of the century, although parts of it were.
• The triumph of democracy, in western Europe after World War II and eastern Europe after the Cold War, was not inevitable.

Next up, some American history. In the fall, I get to take Historiography and Problems in North Carolina History.

I have gotten my feet wet, and will tackle two classes.