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Learn American History Quick? 2017-02-28 02:25:33 Post No. 9169033
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I know almost nothing about history, highschool history was my last course and that was years ago, forgot most of it. Im having trouble understanding some of the books I am interested in (The Fourth Turning and The Best And The Brightest) are two of them, because I am braindead when it comes to history. Is there like a /lit/ approved series of books where I can learn the basics of American history, but not spend a year on it? Interested in period of the American Revolution to the late 80s.
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>>9169033
>it's a british colony
>french and indian war (that's the 7 years war in the north american theater)
>war of independence
>war of 1812
>civil war
>fighting the spanish because that boat blew up
>selling stuff to people in ww1
>roaring 20s
>supplying the soviets in ww2 and fighting japs because that military base blew up
>cold war
>korean war
>'nam
>cuban missile crisis
>no more cold war
>fighting the sand people because those towers blew up
>american history officially ends with the election of donald trump
there you go
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John Green's Crash Course.
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>>9169071
I know the jist of it, I want to get a feel for each generation though. Like when somebody starts talking about the 1960s, I elicit no emotional feeling at all because I know literally nothing about the 1960s. Couldn't even tell you who were the presidents.
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>>9169077
just watch mad men bro
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>>9169077
Eisenhower (1953-61) Kennedy (1961-3) Johnson (1963-9) Nixon (1969-74)
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>>9169071
you forgot king nigger
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>>9169894
>Is this a meme or a good suggestion?
really now
you are on the wrong board champ
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Is pic related a good book to start with? Im looking for a good history book too.
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>>9169931
>reddit spacing
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>>9169939
Not really. As the title implies, it only covers the year 1776. Isn't even a good brief history of the revolution
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>>9169071
cuban missile was before nam you fucking nigger cunt faggot kill urself
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>>9169964
:^)
>b-b-but...
save it kiddo
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Quickly learned is hardly learned.
>>9169939
Try Oxford's The Glorious Cause. You can read through it once and be done with it or go through the footnotes and expand from there as much as you want.
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