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"Newcomer" to History 2017-03-03 04:07:07 Post No. 2448110
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Hello /his/,
I have always had an interest in history and thought I had a decent knowledge about it until I came here. The amount of detail you guys dive into only makes me want to understand more about your implications in an argument. I want to know what books I should start reading to get a true understanding of history. I'm am going to start a book version of a bucket list. What do you guys recommend?
>pic related I love color and colorized photos of the civil war/Victorian era to WWI
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Read American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund Morgan. He is what I believe to be the best historian to ever live. And I think that is his best book
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A good way to tackle history (and the way they teach it to you in higher education) is by learning the material by normal academic means (lectures, reading history books, documentaries, etc) and then reading the documents of that era with both modern and period contexts.
For example, let's say you learn about the American Civil War. You would read a history book or watch a documentary, then read some of lincoln's letters, read some slavers defend the practice, read some abolitionists' arguments against it. What are the average union soldiers thoughts on the war? Confederate soldier? A slave himself?
I've alwayd felt that reading the documents themselves in context really brings history to life in a way that modern material on the subjects can't.
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