Oi!

Here's the intro:

Possibly as an act of vengeance, a history professor--compiling, verbatim, several decades' worth of freshman papers--offers some of his students’ more striking insights into European history from the Middle Ages to the present.

Here's the article.

Here's a quote to get you started:

History, a record of things left behind by past generations, started in 1815.

Read it and weep.
Or laugh.
Or both.

HT: HSK at WorldMagBlog