Wrinkles of History in Student Slips of the Tongue
Anders Henriksson, history chair at Shepherd College, curates Non Campus Mentis a collection drawn from thousands of student papers and exams. The book mocks mangled vocabularies and erroneous historical facts while landing on The New York Times miscellaneous best seller list.
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Non Campus Mentis World Students Excerpt Summary
The text parodies history and myth with playful misstatements, misnaming figures, and surreal leaps. It treats history as biased, notes hindsight from secondary sources, and blends ancient legends with absurd claims about civilizations, gods, and explorers.
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