JSTOR

The same way as like the guy who's been working in the mines for a 12 hour shift doesn't have time to come home and go, go, well, you know, What is the whole history of Venezuela? It's just not going to happen.

If you're not trained to use JSTOR,

you're probably not going to be able to do the kind of research you need to do to disprove or prove any of this stuff.

If you don't have the tools to use academic journals and properly understand them and read them and vet them and things like that, it's going to be really difficult.

You know?

So, I mean, that, especially in the 90s when everything was moving so fast, because we had like, you know, those library internets, like JSTOR and all that stuff, where it was like a centralized thing, but you weren't necessarily going on the world wide web as we would come to know it as easily.

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movie at this point and it had already it had already shown and we've

And where are you getting this? What it ended up doing, long story short, is pointing me to dozens of real scientific articles that are available on the internet.

Now, also, I have JSTOR.

So sometimes you need to pay for access to the full article, which if you do what I do, you have to.

then so what it did was it didn't develop anything for me it just said hey these are the this is where i'm getting my conclusions i'm a 20 year old research assistant so don't trust me uh read the actual data and when you do that it can it can make things much faster but

I think I've read everything you've ever written in your entire career.

There's 112 articles and book chapters on JSTOR that I downloaded and worked my way through.

I mean, you have an unusual profile, I would say, as an intellectual and as a university president.

I read Ted Mitchell has a recent essay out in the intro to Paul LeBlanc's new book.

Why had no one seen this woman outside her bower? Why was she living in seclusion? Why did she crave Rustam's child so badly? Is there a reason behind this beyond simply having a child by a powerful warrior and things like that? So what I tried to do was that I also tried to broaden my understanding of women from ancient historical Iran.

And with the help of academic texts, long-lived JSTOR, and historical non-fiction.

Now, Tehmina is a little bit tricky because she's a mythological figure and her story takes place during what is known as the legendary period of the Shah Nameh.

which is a mythology that predates the historical reign of Cyrus the Great and the Achaemenid Empire, which is also separately covered by the poem, by the way.