Betty Wells
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I hold a Masters degree in History from The State University of New York at Buffalo and have permanent New York State certification as a social studies teacher, grades 7-12. I have always especially enjoyed tutoring students, helping them to understand how finer points help paint the bigger picture, and encouraging them to apply knowledge of the past to current and future issues. As the philosopher George Santayana has said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
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Answered a Question in Literature
The White Man’s Burden was published in 1973 by Winthrop Jordan, an historian from the University of Mississippi, whose research focused on the roots of racism. It is an abridgment of his 600 page... -
Answered a Question in Arts
Henry Ossawa Turner (1859-1937) was an African-American artist whose father was a minister and mother was a teacher. He grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy... -
Answered a Question in Arts
Thomas Hovenden (1840-1895) was an emigre to the United States in 1863, having been orphaned as a youth during the Irish potato famine. In New York he worked as an illustrator for Harper’s Magazine... -
Answered a Question in History
The Fires of Jubilee was written by the history professor Stephen B. Oates. It tells the story of the slave revolt led by Nat Turner in August 1831 in Southampton County Virginia. Turner, himself a... -
Answered a Question in Social Sciences
In order to discuss sexuality in terms of “adult psychological difficulties” and “healthy adult sexuality,” it is important to take a cultural and cross-cultural perspective. What is normal and...
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