Lee Knapp

I'm History...but do I repeat myself? (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"How quaint...or is this kind of lame?" thought artist Lee Knapp after she half-heartedly returned to teach history at her old public high school. Because her private history was in a state of upheaval, it seemed she had no choice.

In her entertaining memoir, I'm History...but do I repeat myself?, recently retired public school teacher Lee Knapp recounts the effects that the entirely new population on her old familiar campus had on her life. As a metaphor of America itself, her once nearly all-white alma mater-outside the former capital of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia, no less-now boasted being one of the most diverse in the state, a state that led the Massive Resistance movement in the fifties to prevent this very thing from ever happening.

With insight and humor, Knapp explores how her return expanded, if not exploded, the foundations of an identity that she had been constructing since graduating in America's bicentennial: her evangelicalism, her Southern heritage, her suburban community. Into this reexamination, Knapp engagingly weaves in moments from big history that, as Twain reminds us, may not repeat, but certainly rhyme with our current moment.

Throughout these four sections, Knapp also traces the unexpected trajectory of her personal history. Beginning life as a devout, idealistic newlywed twenty-something, she ended up as a disoriented, backslidden newly divorced fifty-something. Disoriented, that is, until Knapp's personal life was also reconstructed on that campus by a totally unforeseen, second-chance romance with a widowed colleague.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: grammarRULES!
• Seitenzahl: 333
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798989892716
• Artikelnr.: 75406939

Autorenporträt

After graduating from college, Knapp began teaching history in her home county in 1980 and by 1986 had three sons. She took a seventeen year hiatus from education during which she began an art business, creating whimsical teapots, relief sculptures of area colleges, and precise architectural replicas of private homes and a few public buildings out of clay. In early 2003, she published a book of fifteen essays through Baker Books called Grace in the First Person. In the fall of that year, she returned to a classroom at her alma mater to teach modern European and US history, and later a class called Theory of Knowledge, essentially epistemology, as part of the rigorous International Baccalaureate program. In 2008, she launched her second business, grammarRULES! (grammarstuff.com), a line of plates, mugs, and greeting cards that address grammatical pet peeves with a wry, slightly judgmental tone. Knapp retired from public education in 2021 and now lives in rural Virginia, reveling in the beauty of the horses and mountains across the street. She also revels in the beauty of the lives of her boys and their families, who still endlessly fascinate her.