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Thank you for the very fine note.

May your tribe prosper, as the old saying goes.

You make a marvelous point: A degree in liberal arts teaches a person how to think and study and consider and draw conclusions based on evidence, etc. I think it is the best way to proceed in college because after you graduate you can do anything!

Now, what could be more fun than that?

PS: Just began the new Alexander Hamilton book by Ron Chernow. Hamilton, now there was a hard charger. Got through law school in six-months!

A degree in liberal arts teaches a person how to think and study and consider ...................... PS: Just began the new Alexander Hamilton book by Ron Chernow. Hamilton, now there was a hard charger. Got through law school in six-months!

Um, Hamilton never completed law school due to the Revolution. He was allowed to practice law under bill passed specifically to help Revolutionary Vets whose education was interrupted.

P.S. I don't have a liberal arts degree.

Yes, Chernow's book was good. He's an example of a good non Ph.D. historian.

I felt him a little too hard on TJ. 'Tis my only complaint. I review history books for my museum so I read 3 a week, mostly on my time not theirs.

To you and other posters, I'd continue by saying that many of the professors are overrated. I think I could write a good book in a year or two w/o a Ph.D. but its easier to get published with the university system.

I do promise all of you on FR that one day when I write books people will want to READ them not use them as doorstops.

I have a suspicion that when I get to the ivory tower folks that they will cringe when I plan to do a dissertation NOT on gender or racial studies.

Again that's why I love museum work. I get to work with real people and talk to real people about my love for history and not be shut up in a corner in some college castle hiding from the so called "unwashed masses". Every day I talk to the public I am encouraged by the many conservative museum visitors that are SELF TAUGHT and are patriotic and knowledgeable about our nation's past.

YH