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Re: Ask HN: Good History Blogs?

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Post by hayst4ck »

Timothy Snyder is just fantastic: https://snyder.substack.com/

His class on Ukraine on Youtube is fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJczLlwp-d8

If I had a history class taught like this in college I might have looked at it. I think in one of his classes about Ukraine he mentioned that he was a programmer at some point. His explanations of history are often very input/output oriented or explained almost like an algorithm.

His books are also worth reading and every one of his lectures on youtube I have enjoyed.

He's great at giving historical perspective to current affairs, and probably more than anyone else, I feel like he makes the current political climate make sense.

Re: Ask HN: Good History Blogs?

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Post by thorin »

hayst4ck wrote: post #2

Timothy Snyder is just fantastic: https://snyder.substack.com/ His class on Ukraine on Youtube is fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJczLlwp-d8 If I had a history class taught like this in college I might have looked at it. I think in one of his classes about Ukraine he mentioned that he was a programmer at some point. His explanations of history are often very input/output oriented or explained almost like…

Yes, this is really excellent, I really struggle to engage with history for some reason, since I was a kid I always found it boring but I have enjoyed the 1st few articles I've read on his site and will finish watching the lecture. I'm not sure why I've struggled with history, but I think it's probably the way it's taught rather than the subject itself. I remember reading History of Civilizations as a teenager and finding it most engaging.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Civilizations-Fernand-Braud...

Re: Ask HN: Good History Blogs?

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Post by eimrine »

What is your definition of "good" in context of history blogs, can you give at least one example as not good (mediocre, bad, lame) blogs which may be considered as history blog?

And what is the "history" blog is if absolutely any blog gives its creator an ability to edit some ancient records, is such concept as histority at least possible for a web log?

Re: Ask HN: Good History Blogs?

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Post by warrenm »

Here are a couple I follow over on datente.com, or that I check on a periodic basis:

- https://www.filfre.net - https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com - https://www.c82.net - https://history.stackexchange.com/questions <- History.SE ... as with any SE site, there are pros and cons - but a lot more "pros" than "cons", imo

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