Stephen Klahr

Formal education

I hold a Master of Arts in History from Eastern Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Alabama.

Those degrees supplied disciplinary foundations: chronology, historical context, historiography, source criticism, political institutions, and analytical writing. This site begins from that foundation rather than treating graduation as the end of education.

A continuing education

I am working toward a more coherent liberal and classical education—one that connects history with literature, philosophy, political thought, rhetoric, mathematics, science, and the arts.

The aim is not to race through an ornamental list of famous books. It is to read important works in context, understand their arguments, compare serious alternatives, and write clearly enough that apparent understanding can be tested.

What belongs here

This is a personal scholarly site for essays, reading notes, reviews, study plans, and curriculum records. It is narrower than a diary and more provisional than a finished body of scholarship.

Posts may be revised as the evidence, reading, or argument changes. Comments and criticism are part of the intended form: the purpose is disciplined learning, not the appearance of settled authority.