We discussed the importance of visiting even complex and difficult aspects of history (i.e. Germany facing the Holocaust, etc.) and also discussed the meaning of this quote by historian R. Scott Appleby: "Subversion, like confession, can be beneficial to the academic's soul." We then began work on "Lowen Revisited -- Context and Lens" with the accompanying packet of articles (about James Baldwin, etc.) -- to be finished in class tomorrow.
