First in a series of what I enjoy listening to. Paul Cooper brings polish and artistic flourishes to make the history of the great empires of history come to life. You feel like you are in it.
Sweaty, thank for the recommendation- I travel regularly from Phoenix to LA to visit my aunt, who is in a nursing home with terminal dementia…have been making this trip now for almost ten years, and the first time I listened to Sapiens. I like nice dense historical or scientific tomes, interspersed with murder mysteries and the latest Sci Fi.
I have a book recommendation for you: Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world by Jack Weatherford. Don’t know if it is on audio, but a fantastic and fascinating book.
I am a little older - I graduated from high school in ‘78… and I am embarrassed to admit that, except for art and theater history, I was entirely uninterested in history until my 50’s…at which point I realized how much had been omitted or hidden from my view in my education and set about understanding a little better, starting with reading some Howard Zinn….
Alas, a group dedicated to whitewashing the Civil war, "Daughters of the Confederacy" are largely the reason why high schools teach a demonstrably incorrect version of US history.
I dug into it deeply about a decade ago (I had spare time then) and hoo-boy were they key in sanitizing the South and its "peculiar institution"
No surprise there! One of the books that made the scales fall from my eyes on the idiocy and brutality of the Civil War was “1861 - the Civil War Awakening” by Adam Goodheart. It is in audio format. I went to most of grade school and all of high school on Maui (“Maui High School”! What a name!) and even the Hawaiian history we were taught was feeble and didn’t reflect the true issues that resulted in the haole businessmen deposing the Hawaiian monarch, Liliokalani. 🙄🙄🙄
I got the history bug late in life when I started reading about the history of mathematics, so I could understand the major themes of what I studied in college (physics, which is largely applied mathematics) when I realized that in semesters we would often cover "breakthroughs" that took hundreds of years to solve.
Then I got into US history, since as a senior in College (late 1980's) I took a college level US History class and I realized that I was lied to A LOT in my high school history. Ahd that was back when California and Wisconsin fought for the best education. If they lied to me, what did they teach in the south in the mid 1980s? (answer: not much accurate)
Sweaty, thank for the recommendation- I travel regularly from Phoenix to LA to visit my aunt, who is in a nursing home with terminal dementia…have been making this trip now for almost ten years, and the first time I listened to Sapiens. I like nice dense historical or scientific tomes, interspersed with murder mysteries and the latest Sci Fi.
I have a book recommendation for you: Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world by Jack Weatherford. Don’t know if it is on audio, but a fantastic and fascinating book.
I am a little older - I graduated from high school in ‘78… and I am embarrassed to admit that, except for art and theater history, I was entirely uninterested in history until my 50’s…at which point I realized how much had been omitted or hidden from my view in my education and set about understanding a little better, starting with reading some Howard Zinn….
Alas, a group dedicated to whitewashing the Civil war, "Daughters of the Confederacy" are largely the reason why high schools teach a demonstrably incorrect version of US history.
I dug into it deeply about a decade ago (I had spare time then) and hoo-boy were they key in sanitizing the South and its "peculiar institution"
No surprise there! One of the books that made the scales fall from my eyes on the idiocy and brutality of the Civil War was “1861 - the Civil War Awakening” by Adam Goodheart. It is in audio format. I went to most of grade school and all of high school on Maui (“Maui High School”! What a name!) and even the Hawaiian history we were taught was feeble and didn’t reflect the true issues that resulted in the haole businessmen deposing the Hawaiian monarch, Liliokalani. 🙄🙄🙄
Ooh, I will have to look it up.
I got the history bug late in life when I started reading about the history of mathematics, so I could understand the major themes of what I studied in college (physics, which is largely applied mathematics) when I realized that in semesters we would often cover "breakthroughs" that took hundreds of years to solve.
Then I got into US history, since as a senior in College (late 1980's) I took a college level US History class and I realized that I was lied to A LOT in my high school history. Ahd that was back when California and Wisconsin fought for the best education. If they lied to me, what did they teach in the south in the mid 1980s? (answer: not much accurate)
Thank you for the rec! I love history (reading about the Battle of Actium at the moment)!