<p>Liz Truman is in trouble. She's an untenured faculty member at Littleton College whose future is in the hands of a college vice president with a grudge.</p><p>Her mother teetering on emotional collapse since the death of Liz's beloved father and college president is a constant source of irritation to Liz whom her mother calls the last living single woman in Hattaloochee Alabama.</p><p>Liz is developing a growing list of detractors. As anonymous hate letters begin to arrive to her office Liz unleashes a series of events that exposes the ironies of academia small towns and southern traditions.</p><p>Brimming with humor and intrigue with a vivid cast of characters <em>The History Lesson</em> frames universal lessons of grief loyalty and perseverance into one history professor's endeavor to reconcile the past with her future.</p>