Experienced tutor in History in Evanston, Joe offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

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1. I majored in history in college, for the obvious reason that I just loved it.

2.  I enjoy teaching so much that I have been giving free, three-month long history courses at local nursing homes as a volunteer for the past two years.  I'll never know what it is, but it truly floats my boat to lead others down the path of knowing and understanding the past. I do get fairly animated, so as to remove the "this stuff sure is dry" reaction by my audience. My senior citizen students applaud me at the end of my presentations.  I get terribly embarrassed, and wish they wouldn't, as the pleasure is all mine.  That is why I'm glad to do it for free.  They claim that it is my enthusiasm and occasional but appropriate sense of humor that makes the subject come alive to them.  One of them once asked if I were a retired Ph.D. history professor, because she thought I knew so much.  I could only chuckle, and assured her that my knowledge was absolutely nothing compared to that of a Ph.D.

3.  In my adult life hobbies, I have been a washout when it comes to playing adult sports (tennis, golf, and the like), the outdoors, the performing arts, what have you.  Reading, pretty much, has been my hobby.  Like so many of us, I enjoy reading on a variety of topics.  However, history has easily been my number one.  I truly have continued expanding my horizons in my undergraduate major during my adulthood, with great, great satisfaction.