User:Alexthehunn

I am a PhD candidate at University of Texas at Arlington in the Transatlantic History program. My dissertation focuses on the movement to abolish captial punishment. Dr. Steven G. Reinhardt is my dissertation chairman. My master's thesis is entitiled, "Executioners: The Cutting Edge of Royal Power."

I was born at an early age, in Fort Worth, Texas. I attended Paschal High School, graduating in 1970.

Among the classes I teach are American History, I and II (pre Reconstruction and post Reconstruction).

My interests in history include (in no particular order):

Execution

Death Penalty

Torture

Hapsburg Dynasty

Hohenzollerns

Wittelsbach

Tudors

Stuarts

Romanovs

Henry VIII

Byzantine Empire

Thirty Years War

Primary Historical People who interest me (in no particular order of preference)
1. Napoleon I

2. Alexander the Great

3. Charles Darwin

4. Marie Antoinette

5. Catherine the Great

6. Julius Caesar

7. Marcus Tullius Cicero

8. Immanuel Kant

9. Albert Einstein

10. Peter the Great

11. Charles V

12. Leo Tolstoy

13. Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

14. William the Conquerer

15. Justinian the Great

16. Suleiman the Magnificent

17. Rene Descartes

18. John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough

19. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek

20. Saint Thomas Aquinas

21. Winston Churchill

22. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

23. Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg

24. Diana, Princess of Wales

25. Gustavus Adolphus

26. Albrecht von Wallenstein

27. Confucius

28. Frederick the Great

29. Gertude Stein

30. Richard Dawkins

31. Sir Isaac Newton

32. William Shakespeare

33. Horatio Nelson

34. Kaiser Wilhelm II

35. Johann Sebastian Bach