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This site was for students and anyone else who might be interested in my historical work, but now also serves as information for my bid for Radford City Council. By way of introduction, here’s a photo taken by Linda Burton in the science fiction gallery of the Seattle Museum of Pop Culture. 

Gort the Robot, shown here, is from The Day the Earth Stood Still, a 1951 movie.  Despite the uncanny resemblance, I’m the handsome one on your right. The museum is  extremely cool, and if you don’t see it next time you’re in Seattle, Gort will know where to find you.

So — Why do historians  like science fiction?  It has something to do with what history is and what it ought to be.

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