Hi! I am Hannah, a native of CT. My goal is to spread my love of history to both adults and young adults. Growing up, most of my peers viewed history as "boring" and just a memorization of facts and f... igures. I could not quite understand this. To me history was so much more. It helped (and helps) to explain why different regions of the world and why cultures are the way they are. You can find examples of my approach through Facebook (Hannah's History Tutoring), linkedIn, and Academia.edu. For example, without learning the history of Egyptology, it just seems kind of random that the Rosetta Stone is held in the British Museum and not the Louvre. However, as soon as you dig a tiny bit deeper you discover that there are actually concrete reasons why this is the case! In 2011 I actually traveled to Egypt and was able to visit the Pyramids at Giza, the Valley of the Kings, and so many others! One of my sub-fields is gender in the ancient world. What were women's lives in like in ancient Greece/ Rome/ Egypt / and other ancient cultures? What kind of evidence do we have to give us some of these hints? I also make it a teaching goal to de-mystify the ancient Egyptians and their culture. The Egyptians were actually not obsessed with death. Rather, a lot of their private dwellings (even high status ones) were built out of organic materials that don't survive time very well. In contrast, their tomb/ remembrance structures tended to be built out of stone, which does have a higher survival rate.read more