I’m a 21-year-old guy and since they unfortunately didn’t teach us about American history in school I wanna learn it all on my own from the beginning to the present.
I’m really looking forward to a deep dive to not only understand American history better but also to get a better grasp of the culture, people, economics, politics and social aspects that influenced America to become what it is now.
I was wondering what the best ways and resources are to do this. Maybe someone can recommend some good media resources. It doesn’t matter what it is, it could be books, videos, podcasts, documentaries, documents, articles, movies and so on.
I’m open for everything :)
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It has a very poor reception in the academic community for a very poor analysis of the events it purports to explain
So Zinn is to history what Diamond is to anthropology?
Guns, Germs, and Steel, at least, is a tolerable introductory work if you don’t take it as gospel, but Diamond’s subsequent works, yes, very comparable.
Introductory, sure, but it’s still overly simplistic.