Freshman: "I'm not a Democrat! I don't think I should have to listen to this stuff!"

History News Network: JAMES C. COBB

PARTISAN HISTORY: A FRESHMAN'S PERSPECTIVE: After 34 years of college teaching, I thought I had heard just about every imaginable student complaint. Last week, however, a freshman in my 300-seat US History Since 1865 course came in to discuss her exam with one of the graders and proceeded to work herself into a semi-hissy over the fact that we had spent four class periods (one of them consisting of a visit from Taylor Branch) discussing the civil rights movement.