Is someone else here studying/interested in it?
I'm the middle of studying it actually (casually studying it I should add). My main focus at the moment is the Cuban Revolution. I'm reading a book on modern revolutions, and one thing that is sticking out to me is how prevalent communism and socialism is in unifying the revolutionaries, and to be quite honest, I really don't understand what those words mean.
>>7569
I'm also studying Cuba, but my focus is in the XIX century revolutions.
Btw, IIRC the 1959 revolution wasn't initially communist/socialist, but meant to restore the old constitution,
Getting my Masters in it.
But I am Latin American, so yeah.
Now we have a board, can we improve the resources document, add resources to any historical topics such as books, videos or podcasts. Hopefully we can catalogue a lot of resources so it could be stickied.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rq0gUUpoI1Xi_NKpt7iuUdU2xdQzbwSu-g2BzpG_JBc
no lib shit like howard zinn or crash course history pls senpai
>>7541
academia *is* "lib shit" so good luck with that
>>7541
If you feel like a source is a bad, you can add it under bad resourcces and explain why you believe it's bad.
Who's your favorite dictator /his/?
Mao ofc made china into a superpower
>>7447
Hitler is fresh as fuck
Nazi aesthetics best aesthetics
>>7447
castro ofc
to the wall!
Genghis Khan>Alexander the Great>Adolf Hitler
PROVE ME WRONG. PRO TIP: YOU FUCKING NIGGERS CANT
ALL HAIL EMPEROR KHAN!
MUH HORSE ARCHERS
>>7390
>m-muh panzers
>>7390
you forgot napoleon, moron.
was so based they took him back off the island, then put him back.
then put his son or someshit into power like 3 times.
Brief History of Ancient Rome (Oxford)
The Annals by Tacitus
Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements, Fifth Edition
The Cultures of the West, Volume One: To 1750: A History (Oxford)
Out of these, I'd say I like Revolutions the best. It manages to be very concise and really opens up your views of both modern and even some ancient times. The others I don't care too much for, especially Cultures of the West. Ancient Rome is decent, but I think I'm going to get "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon and "Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic" soon. Tacitus I haven't actually started, but I'll probably begin tomorrow once I've finished my current book (the Aeneid by Virgil).
Also, thoughts on pic related? Is it worth a read from a historian's perspective?
>>7307
Regarding the Black Civil Rights Movement, it's by far the best book that I've found on the topic.
>>7430
I've never found a single thing appealing about studying modern black history. How did you get into it?
I'll add this book to my log.
Bretty interesting, has a chapter dedicated to explaining why Guns, Germs and Steel is bollocks.
Let's talk Greek mythology, modern pop culture uses assets of it freely and most of the time, inaccurately. What are your favorite Greek myths? What good life lessons can one learn from them?
Honestly, I've always like the Odyssey the most. Read a bastardised kids version when I was younger (called him Ulysses but still used the other Greek names) and it always stuck with me.
I guess lessons from it could be hubris considering Odysseus fucked him and his crew over all to get some kleos.
>Hercules (the film of Disney)
>Troy
Absolutely disgusting.
I like a lot of story but didn't not really learned stuff.
In the reality your tv is not fucking zeus trying to fuck your mom.
Oh fuck I finally can do this.
Which Muse is your favorite? Thaleiafags need not apply
Dumping some of the first colored photos made.
These were taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in pre-revolution Russia. Will give back story on some if anyone is interested.
>>7235
>>7259
>>7277
Now that /his/ is a thing...
Who won 1812?
>>7034
>flags are gone so this type of thread doesnt work anymore
CANADA WON. I AM TOTALLY NOT A CANADIAN POSTER!!!
I keep hearing that Canadians burned down D.C. But I can't find a source. Everything points to British troops doing so.
>>7872
Canada didn't really exist back then.
Can we get a historical military pictures thread?
Most of my pictures are navy related.
Did Jesus really exist?
>>7002
I'm sure that he did not have long hair
yes and even the most reddit fedoratipper would admit that
no one knows if he was actually the divine son of god tho but jesus was definitely a real guy who lived in israel during that time period
>>7002
Yes.
Was he holy? That's what is up to debate
>LOL DUDE the byzantines were, like, TOTALLY roman! they even called themselves romans so it must make it so!
>what? the holy roman empire? HAHA no fuck that they weren't le holy weren't le roman and weren't le empire! like, comon dude, they didn't even speak latin!
>>6961
He's right you know
one is a direct successor to that state, that for long periods of time held most of the former empire.
The other was set up over 400 years after the fall of the empire.
>>7018
>one is a direct successor to that state
Only by a fluke of imperial succession laws. The Byzantine state had just as much resemblance to the old Roman one as any of the successor states in the west
I believe we need some historical reaction images to coronate the new board.
Reaction pic thread?
Have another Nappy.
World War II thread. Discuss WWII movies, books, and dump WWII pics/gifs/webms.
bumping
Are any of you pursuing a degree in humanities?
What are you studying?
Is it rewarding?
What has been most disappointing?
>>6853
Lawfag here. I'm kinda enjoying it.
>>6853
I'm doing a reasonably interesting degree that's a mix of various humanities subjects (history, literature, philosophy, technology, media, politics, "knowledge", the arts, sociology) in relation to Western culture. Lots and lots of reading. Not going to write out what the course is called because it's pretty embarrassing. I'm in my first year, we looked at a range of philosophers (from Plato to Foucault) and their basic ideas in the first block, while reading different types of texts to do with the humanities alongside it (philosophical, historical and sociological texts). I kind of enjoyed it.
This block we're reading a bunch of philosophical texts (Descartes, Nietzsche, Spinoza, Kant, and Foucault) while looking at how the sciences developed after the Middle Ages in Europe.
Being completely honest, I think it's a bullshit degree and a general waste of my money, even if it is extremely interesting and aligns nearly perfectly with my interests and what I like doing. If I have enough money after these 3 years I'm probably going to do a Law degree, or I might just drop this at the end of the year and see if I can switch over to the law faculty. I'm just generally disappointed in, I know I'll sound full of myself, my peers. No one seems to be as motivated or interested as I am. Tutorials in particular are generally structured in the way that group discussion is very important, but there are very rarely people who seem interested in the topic at hand, and there is always a list of usual suspects, myself included, who talk. I feel as though I'm one of the few, alongside some others I share a few courses with, who generally contribute something worthwhile to the overall discussion. I genuinely wonder why everyone's here if they have no vested interest in what they're doing. And they're not "Chads" or "normies" either, they're all decent people.
>>6853
Studied Ancient History, now doing Law. I regret nothing, I feel a lot more rounded than an engineering automaton.
/psy/
So, how about that psychology, huh.
Is it really a science? If not, what is it?
It's somewhat scientific, I suppose.
I mean, it grew out of medicine, which is empirical and practical, results-based first, and has a lot of Cartesian dualist baggage left over from the Enlightenment, but they do try.
As our understanding of human neurobiology increases, psychology will be reduced to the study of mental phenomenology.
This is really a
>>>/sci/
thread though
>>6807
>no cerebellum
how the fuck would a slow zombie even be able to stand upright
>>6807
It is becoming a harder science as neuroscience becomes more advanced, but right now it still depends too much on Freud and other similar hacks.
