Please help me learn world history!
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| I’ve enjoyed a few books by David McCullough and Corda’s “Ike, An American Hero” |
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| There is an AP in World History. You could get the AP book - by Princeton Review or similar. |
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| History of the World in 100 Objects - book or podcast (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nrtd2/episodes/downloads) |
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| I second the nomination for The Great Courses which is now called Wondrium. But, you might want to look for the genre called Literary Non-Fiction or Creative Non-Fiction. These are non-fiction books that read like novels. Seabiscuit, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and The Dark Queens fall into this category. You can find suggestions on google and Goodreads. |
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| Amandla! and Searching for Sugarman are both musically-focused documentaries about South Africa in the Apartheid and Post-Apartheid era that I love. |
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| Here is a Goodreads list of microhistories. I third the nomination for Wondrium. But, I also find that I learn history better when it reads like a story. So, also nominate books like Seabiscuit, etc. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1058.Microhistory_Social_Histories_of_Just_One_Thing |
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Coffee table book. Open randomly every day.
https://www.amazon.com/Kingfisher-History-Encyclopedia-Encyclopedias/dp/0753468751 |
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This may sound a little strange, but I highly recommend "Prisoners of Geography: Our World Explained in 12 Simple Maps (Illustrated Young Readers Edition)"
There's an adult version too but I absolutely loved the children's edition, which is basically a very annotated picture book that explains how the physical geography of the world has influenced different human events. For instance, it explains why controlling Poland is something Russia would very much like. I thought it was fascinating and a very enjoyable read. |
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Anything by Erik Larsen
King Kaiser Czar |
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Big "meta-histories" / crash courses in world history:
Centers of Progress: 40 Cities That Changed the World Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined |
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| I loved Chesapeake by James Michener. Beautifully written historic fiction about the Chesapeake watershed area. Begin with the Native Americans/ pre-American revolution and travels through generations. |
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| I just finished Daughters of Yalta, about the 1945 conference between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin, told from the point of view of the 3 women who were official attendees (FDR's daughter Anna, Churchill's daughter Sarah, and Kathleen Harriman, the daughter of the US ambassador to the Soviet Union). It was excellent, and very readable. |
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Shortest History of " " series
bunch of countries read England by james hawes.... quick and informative good place to start |
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| The Rest is History podcast is two funny British guys covering everything from Thermopylae to Marilyn Monroe. They do tend to do deep dives on an issue, but you can jump around name listen to the ones that interest you. |