History yt

Metatron
Real Crusades History
The Great War
Lindybeige
scholagladitoria
Skallagrim
I am Shad
Historyden (wayyyy underrated, would recommend)

All pretty good channels

>>923821
>>923861
All of those, plus HistoryBuffs is good.

>>923821

Nope. Read books.

>>923922
Why not both?

>>924664
Books tend to not be written by just anybody, unless you're self publishing on Amazon or something

>>923861
>RealCrusadesHistory

May as well browse /pol/ for your studies

>Lindybeige
>Skallagrim

Oh come on now lad

>>923922
This. Don't be so lazy OP.

>>923922
A lot of books don't deal with military history I'm the aspect of going into detail for weapons or armor, which is what most of those channels are about

>>926953
A lot of books do deal with military history you dilettante.

And those channels are ran by people who base their knowledge of weapons on LARPING and how they'd use weapons, rather than primary sources.

>>923869
Is it the one where the guy talks about history movies?

>>923861
Swords, swords, swords, ancient warfare, weapons channel, swords, LARP

>>926962
No they literally spew the same crap that the previous editions have over and over. Specifically for ancient Greek military. Go look for a specific book about ancient Greek hoplites and it will most likely say that they wore 80 pounds of armor. None of them even talk about the spolas. The getty villa museum has 1 book about hoplites and it's tries to perpetuate this idea of how hoplites fight. Thegnthrand actually demonstrated with bronze Spears and showed that the historians who wrote about it didn't actually go out and test it.

>>926979
So you take the word of a LARPER over actual historians, who use proper methodology, use primary sources (such as Xenophon, Thucydides etc.), archeology, artwork etc?

And why do you use a museum book as your example?

Please, read a book by people who have put in proper research, rather than some guy who played around with some weapons

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0691143013?c0157-21

Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites fight, and what role, if any, did hoplite warfare play in shaping the Greek polis? In the nineteenth century, George Grote argued that the phalanx battle formation of the hoplite farmer citizen-soldier was the driving force behind a revolution in Greek social, political, and cultural institutions. Throughout the twentieth century scholars developed and refined this grand hoplite narrative with the help of archaeology. But over the past thirty years scholars have criticized nearly every major tenet of this orthodoxy. Indeed, the revisionists have persuaded many specialists that the evidence demands a new interpretation of the hoplite narrative and a rewriting of early Greek history. Men of Bronze gathers leading scholars to advance the current debate and bring it to a broader audience of ancient historians, classicists, archaeologists, and general readers. After explaining the historical context and significance of the hoplite question, the book assesses and pushes forward the debate over the traditional hoplite narrative and demonstrates why it is at a crucial turning point. Instead of reaching a consensus, the contributors have sharpened their differences, providing new evidence, explanations, and theories about the origin, nature, strategy, and tactics of the hoplite phalanx and its effect on Greek culture and the rise of the polis. The contributors include Paul Cartledge, Lin Foxhall, John Hale, Victor Davis Hanson, and many others.

>>923821
John green

Ted Ed is pretty good. It's just short historical information videos spoken well.

They also have a series called History Vs X where it's a controversial historical character on trial in court, with arguments on both sides for why they were or weren't a huge cock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq-Wk3YqeH4

>>927019
/lit/'s shitposting is leaking it seems

>>927016
That book was literally the only book that actually has some sense. I bought it and read it, it was very good and actually had passages about how most older books had false information, specifically the weight issue. However it's not very conclusive, most of it is just taken from a conference and the actual "work" done wasn't tested on bronze armor or leather armor. They don't go into specifics about the tests or have any links to watch videos on them doing it, no pictures to show penetration. They didn'the even get a group of men together to test a phalanx. They discuss various theories but don't test all of them out. They don't even deal with the reforms to hoplites from various periods, they mainly deal with early archaic hoplites. That book was sold at the getty villa for a short time

>>923869
>HistoryBuffs
They literally recommend Guns, Germs, and Steel

>>926952
>>May as well browse /pol/ for your studies
Epic meme. His podcasts have credible historians and he uses citations. But do go ahead and disregard him because he doesn't fit your bias.

File: photo.jpg (33KB, 320x321px) Image search: [Google]

33KB, 320x321px

this guy has a pretty good channel, it's called Crash Course :^)

>>923821
Here's the list:

File: 1397244197211.jpg (181KB, 556x564px) Image search: [Google]

181KB, 556x564px

>>927188

>>927192
haha it's /int/ banter!!

>>927081
>But do go ahead and disregard him because he doesn't fit your bias.

>Disregards other channel because it doesn't fit his bias

WEEWOO LAD

>>923922
Not OP, but I'll meet you half way. Can you recommend some good audiobooks?

>people's conception of historical stuff on youtube is limited to nothing but military stuff
I like my spears and stuff as much as the next guy, but man, how boring.

Anyone know a good channel for historical instruments/music?

>>923869
HistoryBuff does way too little research. Honestly he has a huge Mel Gibson hate-boner (honestly I can understand it... Braveheart and The Patriot), but the one movie Mel Gibson did well was We were Soldiers. He started refuting his points on the movie and apparently did not even know that most of the source material Gibson got was from the US COs own biography. He was calling bullshit on some things that he thought was just America circle jerks, but it turned out that many of them were actually real events stated by the CO. Give him a year to improve and go back.

If not channels, how about good YouTube videos? Trying to build a playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory/
https://www.youtube.com/user/NationalWWIMuseum
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheUSAHEC/

>>929936
The Great War (BBC 1964)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdEBPyoq11-7H07u7iwGM_3l-_QfxFj9B
The World at War:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYbocufkwRFBhtNDnrrsd3_tpgGCJNe27
The Cold War:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3H6z037pboGWTxs3xGP7HRGrQ5dOQdGc

>>927202
No, recommending guns germs and steel as the definitive answer to why Europe ruled the world is outright wrong.

>>930139
Regarding anything as a definitive answer to anything is outright wrong

I like to listen to him reading stuff whilst I'm doing something else since I don't have access to any books or stuff https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSMG40p6XHFTeXv5noF6Wdw

>not posting Yale courses.
>posting shitty larpers and 1 book 'researchers'.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=yale+courses+history

>>927081
>His podcasts have credible historians and he uses citations
And then constructs his own explanations out of thin air using the thinnest of evidence while entirely ignoring any source or historian that doesn't help him scam more autismbux from his subscribers who'd never read any of the books themselves if they weren't written by someone that shared and flouted their political and cultural biases.