Patrick W. O’Neil
@paddyoneilio.bsky.social
Professor of History at Methodist University in Fayetteville, NC. Book project: Inventing the American Wedding. Expects you to lead class.
September 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I’m enjoying how critics used to think that the problem with Shakespeare was that he didn’t clean history up to fit what obviously should have happened. “"History, grosly taken, was neither proper to instruct, nor apt to please.’" … Authors should therefore "’contrive something … more accurate.’"
April 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I’m enjoying how critics used to think that the problem with Shakespeare was that he didn’t clean history up to fit what obviously should have happened. “"History, grosly taken, was neither proper to instruct, nor apt to please.’" … Authors should therefore "’contrive something … more accurate.’"
A good chunk of what anyone needs to know about me is that the appearance of this in my podcast feed elicited an extremely sincere and embarrassingly enthusiastic anticipatory “are you effing kidding me?” from my lips.
January 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A good chunk of what anyone needs to know about me is that the appearance of this in my podcast feed elicited an extremely sincere and embarrassingly enthusiastic anticipatory “are you effing kidding me?” from my lips.
I taught my son’s 8th grade class about slaveholder marriages; afterward, the teacher had the students write me thank-you notes. Here’s what one said:
Dear Dr. O’Neil
Thank you for teaching me about the history on time travel and some other thing you taught us about
Pleasure’s all mine, my friend.
Dear Dr. O’Neil
Thank you for teaching me about the history on time travel and some other thing you taught us about
Pleasure’s all mine, my friend.
November 22, 2024 at 2:26 PM
I taught my son’s 8th grade class about slaveholder marriages; afterward, the teacher had the students write me thank-you notes. Here’s what one said:
Dear Dr. O’Neil
Thank you for teaching me about the history on time travel and some other thing you taught us about
Pleasure’s all mine, my friend.
Dear Dr. O’Neil
Thank you for teaching me about the history on time travel and some other thing you taught us about
Pleasure’s all mine, my friend.