Name James Hardy, | ||
Education University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University | ||
James D. Hardy, Jr. is the former Associate Dean of the Louisiana State University Honors College and a Professor of History at LSU since 1965. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania.
Hardy's specialty is early modern European history, but he has published works in varying fields from Geopolitics to the history of Baseball.
Hardy teaches Western Civilization, Constitutional Law, and Geopolitics at LSU. Hardy's father, James D. Hardy, Sr., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins; physics), was a distinguished professor and researcher at Yale.
Hardy's three laws of life are 1. To live is to suffer. 2. In matters of importance, there are no answers, only questions. 3. If there were an answer, love would be the only answer.
Hardy also subscribes to Godfrey's law, from James Logan Godfrey: "In history, everything comes from everything."