Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]Oct 2, 2018
Today a colleague asked me why I didn't go into history and it was the best fucking compliment.
Show threadRuth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]Oct 2, 2018

I have an answer, btw:

1. When I was an undergrad, I tried to do a minor but:
a) my advisor AND I both had breakdowns about parental illness the same month and
b) I had to cancel my study abroad w/history focus because my mom was SO sick and I was scared to leave the country

2. I wanted to do a HILS (history/library science) Masters but I had to:
a) pay for it myself & didn't have the $
b) couldn't handle part-time for a DOUBLE masters. Too long in school.

Show threadRuth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]

I might get another degree someday. Master's, not PhD. But the real challenge is that I'm not sure I could be happy focusing on just one area of history. I have SO many historical interests:

- labor
- public works/construction/design
- nuclear things
- women's things
- peace/pacifism/anabaptist things

Oct 2, 2018 at 7:30pmWeb
Show threadRebecca HedreenOct 2, 2018
@platypus The impact of women's peace movement and protests on the nuclear power construction industry (and associated labor issues)?
Show threadRuth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]Oct 2, 2018

@delibrarian .... I might be able to make it work ;) :P

I _do_ have the book "Women Strike for Peace" partly-read at home. Women pounding the door of the Pentagon with their heels shouting for Robert McNamara to come out?