The History Reading Challenge Tag!
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Questions:
1 What first got you into history?
2 What is your favorite history book/author?
3 What is your most anticipated history book you have not yet read?
4 What is your favorite time period & why? What book do you want to read/have read about it?
5 What time period would you like to learn more about? What book do you want to read/have read about it?
6 Who is your favorite person in history? What book do you want to read/have read about them?
7 What history topic would you like to see more fiction/nonfiction books about?
8 What non-book resources do you enjoy when learning about history? Pre-pandemic: historical societies!
9 Favorite history quote/fun fact?
10 Shout out a BookTuber you enjoy who reads history
David Murphy:
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Since we're quoting Catton, I'll provide a favorite, the closing paragraphs of "The Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln's Army: Chapter Five - Opportunity Knocks Three Times: Section Three - Tenting Tonight" (from his depiction of the Battle of Antietam).
"They tramped for several miles and finally were halted on somebody's farm to the north and east of where Hooker's men were posted. General Mansfield spread a blanket for himself on the grass in a fence corner next to a field where the 10th Maine had turned in. The Maine boys were wakeful and did a lot of chattering - the march in the rain had roused them, and thought of what was coming in the morning made it hard to go back to sleep - and the old general got up once and went over to shush them. They recalled that he was nice about it and not at all like a major general: just told them that if they had to talk they might as well do it in a whisper so that their comrades could get a little rest. And at last, long after midnight, there was quiet and the army slept a little.
How far they had marched, those soldiers - down the lanes and cross-lots over the cornfields to get into position, and from the distant corners of the country before that; they were marching, really, out of one era and into another, leaving much behind them, going ahead to much that they did not know about. For some of them there were just a few steps left: from the rumpled grass of a bed in a pasture down to a fence or a thicket where there would be an appointment with a flying bullet of shell fragment, the miraculous and infinitely complicated trajectory of the man meeting the flat, whining trajectory of the bullet without fail. And while they slept the lazy, rainy breeze drifted through the East Wood and the West Wood and the cornfield, and riffled over the copings of the stone bridge to the south, touching them for the last time before dead men made them famous. The flags were all furled and the bugles stilled, and the hot metal of the guns on the ridges had cooled, and the army was asleep - tenting tonight on the old camp ground, with never a song to cheer because the voices that might sing it were all stilled on this most crowded and most lonely of fields. And whatever it may be that nerves men to die for a flag or a phrase or a man or an inexpressible dream was drowsing with them, ready to wake with the dawn."
Love _The Cheese and the Worms_.
Noah rant! Noah rant! Noah rant! Noah rant!
I too really love to read about the Progressive Era! What a fascinating period--and one that engages questions that seem so pressing today.
so much great info ty. Ken Follett's Century trilogy comes to mind for 20th century historical fiction.
Excellent as always
Demon Haunted Land sounds fascinating.
Imagine a Frank Mclynn job on Trajan. Wouldn't that be something. I can only imagine your reaction to receiving that in the mail!
Jonathan Riley Smith is an exquisite Crusades historian. You will enjoy his book, I think! I also love Trajan and would adore a great bio of him-a constant struggle. It’s shocking to me, given how much happened in Trajan’s life, that people manage to make it so tedious.
AMEN!!!
Historical fiction is often a great way f getting into a particular historical era or subject. Eg. History of medicine/anaesthetise= books by Ambrose Parry
i used to go to the Boston historical society all the time, they host such great presentations and Q&As
Great job with the tag Steve. I enjoyed listening to your thoughts on my favorite subject history.Have you read Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution by Mark Puls? I thought it was pretty good. I agree, I would also like to see a book on Taft. I read Doris Kearns Goodwin's book on Taft and Roosevelt. It was the first on Taft that I had read and it sparked an interest. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I've not been able to get into naval history. Is there an entrée to Samuel Eliot Morison's work that doesn't deal with naval history?
I know he wrote the Oxford history of America (or something like that) which is very good, but majority of his famous works are all naval history
His biography on Christopher Columbus.
But how do you really feel about magic Steve?
damn, strong statements on magic haha
I’m sure 2020 will be for many what 1961 was for you.