SS #60: History as a Center Cannot Hold (with Angelina Stanford!)
Our guest today is the lovely and delightfully controversial Angelina Stanford. Angelina has an Honors Baccalaureate Degree and a Master’s Degree in English Literature from the University of Louisiana. For over twenty-five years, she has shared her passion and enthusiasm for literature with students in a variety of settings — everywhere from university classrooms to homeschool co-ops to homeschooling her own three children. You can find Angelina at angelinastanford.com where she teaches online literature classes for middle school through adult, as well as webinars and short term classes. She had a big summer, launching The Literary Life Podcast with her longtime friend Cindy Rollins, and in June she married her very own poet. Angelina lives quite happily in a honeymoon cottage in North Carolina, tracking down rare books and inspiring poetry.
In today’s episode, Brandy read Angelina a quote from herself on teaching history from last time she was on the show – she caused quite a ruckus with this one. Then, Brandy and Mystie asked her to defend herself. What resulted was a truly amazing conversation!
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Show Notes:
Scholé Everyday:
- Mystie
The Institutes Of The Christian Religion by John Calvin
- Brandy
Jane of Lantern Hill by L. M. Montgomery
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
- Angelina
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Jane Austen books
Topical Discussion:
John Milton Prose: Major Writings on Liberty, Politics, Religion, and Education by John Milton
Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education by Stratford Caldecott
Plutarch’s Lives by Plutarch
Ivanhoe by W. Scott
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri
- Landmark Biographies
- Angelina on Scholé Sisters episode 44
- Scholé Sisters episode 49: The Sisters on Dorothy Sayers’ Essay
- Scholé Sisters episode 54: Gainsaying Sayers
- The Lost Tools of Learning essay by Dorothy Sayers
The Plutarch Project Volume Two: Pyrrhus, Nicias, and Crassus by Anne E. White
The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot