UNT history professor Andrew Torget made history on Saturday walking
barefoot off the stage after completing a marathon history lecture
lasting more than 26 hours, as Star-Telegram reports.
Torget’s day-long lesson on Texas
history from the caveman to President Franklin Roosevelt’s third
presidential election run makes him eligible to be placed in the
Guinness Book of World Records for the world’s longest history lesson.
Torget also raised more
than $12,000 for The Portal to Texas History, another monumental effort,
which when completed will digitize the state’s available historical
documents.
About 100 people, many of them
students, were there for the lecture Saturday morning. The Guinness
rules called for at least 10 students to be present at all times in
order for the record attempt to be valid.
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Source: Star-Telegram