by way of introduction

I am thirty married have a son and trying to finish my bachelors, a lot of life interrupted my university studies. 

My historical education and experience has focused heavily on Europe and the development of the European community, including course work on the Renaissance, Reformation, Roman Empire, Modern Europe and the 19th Century in Europe.  I've studied the French and Russian revolutions and most recently moving to Christian history, both surveying the whole of Western Christendom and also looking into the rise of the christian faith as a governing force of society following Rome. 

Only recently have my studies ventured from Europe into the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Caribbean.

I like studying Europe, that is mostly the reason I choose to take this course topic it allowed me to draw from my comfort zone while doing so online where I am not familiar.  I prefer the traditional class to the online format the connection to the professor an seeing and talking to people.  I feel people are more honest in their commentary and more real when the audience is known and I see people censure themselves more in the online world then in their face to face communication.