Those who can, teach history
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Those who can, teach history
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Re: Those who can, teach history
#2Tangential, but what resources would you recommend for learning world history (preferably including the non-Western world as well)?
For someone who is not aiming to be an expert or work with source records, but wants to improve their general awareness and erudition.
Re: Those who can, teach history
#3Tangential, but what resources would you recommend for learning world history (preferably including the non-Western world as well)? For someone who is not aiming to be an expert or work with source records, but wants to improve their general awareness and erudition.
It is, but it is a useful question. What you really want is not resources by being able to meet a threshold for:
- logic - critical thinking
After that, depending on your particular bent, you want some facility with languages ( some already dead ). In other words, it genuinely may not be for everyone.
Re: Those who can, teach history
#4Tangential, but what resources would you recommend for learning world history (preferably including the non-Western world as well)? For someone who is not aiming to be an expert or work with source records, but wants to improve their general awareness and erudition.
There are so many good podcasts for this. Top of my list are Empire, Fall of Civilizations, The Age of Napoleon, The Rest is History, Saga Thing.
Re: Those who can, teach history
#5Those who can, make history
Re: Those who can, teach history
#6Tangential, but what resources would you recommend for learning world history (preferably including the non-Western world as well)? For someone who is not aiming to be an expert or work with source records, but wants to improve their general awareness and erudition.
Honestly, just start with Wikipedia. It's better than most popular books and completely free.
If you find yourself wanting something better, the next steps up are any of the numerous world history books from Oxford/Cambridge university presses. Beyond that you should really be picking more narrow areas/periods to go into.
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#7Tangential, but what resources would you recommend for learning world history (preferably including the non-Western world as well)? For someone who is not aiming to be an expert or work with source records, but wants to improve their general awareness and erudition.
My first BA was in history before I went into tech stuff.
It's honestly a hard question and depends on you. I think there's two core challenges: 1. What would be interesting to you and motivate you 2. Finding quality sources
The first one is easy but the second one is hard if you don't already know a fair amount of history, and there's tons of junk out there.
I'm admittedly pretty snobby on my sources but some recommendations (pick whatever works for you): - The Revolutions podcast is excellent. Made by the same guy as History of Rome - Unironically, the AskHistorians subreddit is a gem. It's hard to find questions with answers. Just search for their Sunday day of reflection posts. It's a compilation of interesting answers - If you're able to get into textbooks (not everyone is), do a search for an intro level textbook that's a short survey of an area/time. For example you find smallish intros to most regions and times from Cambridge
What are you interested in and how do you think you'd enjoy learning?
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#8Those who can, make history
But do they? Study history and you'll learn about the Great Man theory of history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory) and its problems.
Re: Those who can, teach history
#9Re: Those who can, teach history
#10Tangential, but what resources would you recommend for learning world history (preferably including the non-Western world as well)? For someone who is not aiming to be an expert or work with source records, but wants to improve their general awareness and erudition.
There are so many good podcasts for this. Top of my list are Empire, Fall of Civilizations, The Age of Napoleon, The Rest is History, Saga Thing.
I really enjoy Age of Napoleon as well, it’s my only Patreon sub at the moment.