November 2, 2001
Of War and Peas: Students Make History
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Those who misremember history are doomed to be mocked by their professors. In a new book, Non Campus Mentis (Workman Publishing), Anders Henriksson, a history professor at Shepherd College, has collected hundreds of student flubs, goofs, and gaffes on exams.
Hitler was married to Evita. Florence of Arabia fought over the dessert. And everyone in the Middle Ages was middle-aged.
The examples come not just from students at the West
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