Corinne Gressang
Historian of the French Revolution. Dog mom. Auntie. Learner.
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- I am midterm tired and it's not even two weeks into the semester.
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- I miss snow days. COVID transformed them all into remote learning.... But sometimes it's nice just to abandon email and play in the snow unexpectedly.....
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- This is a major long shot, but are any of my friends on here looking to make another ~7k this semester by teaching one section of French I online for a school in my state system (35 students total)? Classes start on Tuesday, but I am sure there could be some flexibility for a last-minute need.
- I am usually pretty chill about my name being consistently spelled or pronounced incorrectly. I am a people pleaser and hate conflict so I won't correct people. But as I realize, I am not being mean or rude for speaking up. It's my name. I am allowed to ask for it to be spelled/pronounced correctly.
- This is the look Moose gives me when we don't agree on which direction we should go on our walk
- www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/b... Remember back in the 90s when we had to pretend we weren't just doing naked imperialism and invading whatever for oil? I guess I appreciate being up front about violating Venezuelan independence and self-determination in favor of extraction and exploitation....?
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- The two most recent of Moose man
- Merry Christmas! Love, Moose and Moose's Dad
- www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o... You know we are an oligarchy when even Mitt Romney is writing opinion pieces in the NYT on why we need to tax the rich. MITT ROMNEY
- Ah. Student evals are out. Non-experts get to rate my pedagogy using arbitrary measures. Then I get to reflect on the directly contradictory advice I get on ways to improve. (Eg. More reading. Less reading. No reading at all.) My gift to me? Waiting till after X-mas to read. Ignorance is bliss!
- Wow! Thank you to everyone who posted! I am so excited to work on this! I am so thankful for this blue sky community of historians!
- Blue sky-storians, I am preparing an Atlantic World class for MA students. I am so excited. Have any advice? Any new MUST READS I should consider? Definitely hitting the classics, but would love to hear what has worked for you!
- Paris has been gone for a few years now, but I still miss her. Please enjoy her sleeping on a massive love sac.
- The most handsome boy in all the land on a snowy walk
- Students really make my heart happy.
- There is an author my husband loves. I tried getting him a signed copy for Christmas (the author passed a few years ago) but it cost too much. However, I did buy him a book (one of a few he doesn't own) by this author from a used book platform. Reader: this book arrived and it was a signed copy.
- I have had some really lovely interactions with students over the last few days of classes. I get some burnt out sometimes.... But also there are reminders of why I do this.
