How do i get more into history? should I just start doing stuff

>>1159639
Put down anime and never look at it again

>>1159639
>Wikipedia articles
yes thats literally what we all do

File: 1447597018387.gif (184KB, 500x313px) Image search: [Google]

184KB, 500x313px

>>1159650
no

File: Holy Bible.jpg (233KB, 1600x1200px) Image search: [Google]

233KB, 1600x1200px

Start with pic related.

>>1159659
We will never take you seriously

>>1159639
Yup and then when you find a tidbit that interests you you go down to the bibliography

>>1159639
Start by reading A Cartoon History of the Universe volumes 1-3, A Cartoon History of the Modern World 1-2, A Cartoon History of the United States.

Then read Howard Zinn's textbook on US history. Someone will have a bitching shit fit about this, but Zinn's book was designed as a teaching aid for ignorant US undergraduates. If they're sensible they'll tell you to read Zinn alongside a lioniser like Foner.

From there you need to start to get into historiography, of the theory of history.

read these:
The Whig Interpretation of History
What is History (EH Carr)
The Poverty of Theory (EP Thompson)
Making of the English Working Class (EP Thompson)
Black Jacobins (CLR James)
Caliban and the Witch (Federici)
History & Class Consciousness (Lukacs)

After that, pick a specific topic, such as Austria Hungary's military problems with ethnic integration in the 1870s.

>>1159664
>see bible
>pick it up
>put in the trash
Make a change for yourself

read historical books you dumb anime autist

File: 1453153313898.gif (1MB, 486x302px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 486x302px

>>1159766
which ones should i start with?

File: Uu657O8.jpg (169KB, 1663x1247px) Image search: [Google]

169KB, 1663x1247px

>>1159686
>Lukacs
don't do that

>>1159776
Start with Herodotus

>>1159779
>Uu657O8.jpg

>>1159779
If you don't read Lukacs alongside Poverty of Theory you'll misunderstand what Thompson is critiquing and why metaphysical "history" has no relationship to historiography.

>>1159639
Play Age of Empires, Total War, and maybe some ebin map painting sim, then come straight to /his/ to shitpost.

>>1159776
Ones written by peer reviewed authors. Doesn't matter the subject matter.

>>1159776
depends of the subject