/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.756916]

I'm going to study History for the next 4 years. What books (historically accurate) do you recommend me? 'Scuse my English.

[Anonymous No.756933]

Bump

[Anonymous No.756968]

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

[Anonymous No.757069]

history professor here

howard zinn is overrated and just as biased as old white guy history

there is no "history" in that you study everything that happens before today. you have to pick a field. ancient china? colonial america? 20th century?

[Anonymous No.757088]

>professor
>4chan

uh huh....

[Anonymous No.757095]

>>756968

[Anonymous No.757096]

>>757088
oh right, because 4chan is populated only by 15 year olds who hang out at the mall food court and spit endless streams of memes LOL DESU DESU DESO RICKROLL'D GOATSE UMADBRO

yes, i'm a history professor. if he wants my advice i'll give it. if he doesn't, no skin off my nose

[Anonymous No.757102]

How fun is it to study History?

[Anonymous No.757104]

Historically accurate history? That's going to be hard to find..

[Anonymous No.757105]

>>757096
Most of the history professors I know can use a shift key properly.

[Anonymous No.757110]

>>757102
if you enjoy history, awesome

if you don't enjoy history, terrible

[Anonymous No.757114]

>>757105
umad

[Anonymous No.757122]

>>757105
i heard that if someone doesn't use proper capitalization on an anonymous internet message board, that means that we can determine their profession

[Anonymous No.757139]

>>757122

Allow me to restate that in less exaggerated terms:

Someone who went through the schooling necessary to become a professor is likely to have better grammatical habits than those displayed in >>757069 and >>757096.

[Anonymous No.757189]

>>757139
OSHIT i wasn't aware that typing on an ANONYMOUS INTERNET BOARD was such SRS BZNS

i better give back my degrees now since RANDOM GUY says i can't be a professor AND have shitty typing habits online

you're a failure.

[Anonymous No.757201]

>>757189

>my degrees

[Anonymous No.757204]

>>757189
the only failure here is you.

You are pathetic, pretending to be a professor on 4chan and not even bothering to make it believable...

why even bother to freak out like this if you actually were?

[Anonymous No.757218]

>>757189
Me thinks thou doth protest too much.

[Anonymous No.757223]

The History of Middle Earth

[Anonymous No.757226]

>>756912

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[Anonymous No.757228]

>>756912

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[Anonymous No.757410]

>>757204
ITT: people who have been successfully trolled

[Anonymous No.757417]

itt believing that online grammar means something

[Anonymous No.757430]

Op here

Still waiting for the books and shit.

>>757069
Ancient Rome/Greece
Middle Ages
Modern times
The big wars
etc.

Also, yay for history professors.

[Anonymous No.757445]

>>756914

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[Anonymous No.757444]

Dohoho funny image op.

[Anonymous No.757450]

Historical fiction is lame. Just read things that are contemporary to the period you're studying. Ovid's good for Roman times, or Caesar's journals, or Aurelius' Meditations. Medieval times, go for Beowulf, early King Arthur stories, the Chanson de Roland, etc. Go from time period to time period and read whatever novels, poetry or plays they enjoyed then.

[Anonymous No.757461]

>>756914

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[Anonymous No.757463]

>>756915

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[Anonymous No.757470]

>>756916
LOL at OP's image. What's the name of that meme?

[Anonymous No.757473]

>>756912

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[Anonymous No.757732]

Thanks guys
>>757470
Op here, dunno but I have more!

[Anonymous No.757737]

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[Anonymous No.757744]

>>756913

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[Anonymous No.757745]

>>757470
confucius say

[Anonymous No.757780]

A girl who sits on a judge's lap

Is about to get an honourable discharge.

[Anonymous No.757804]

>>756915

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[Anonymous No.757816]

>>756913

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[Anonymous No.757825]

/lit/ needs more professors, academics or whatever

[Anonymous No.757830]

>>757825
whatever, bro...

[Anonymous No.757835]

>>757830
no u

[Anonymous No.757843]

>>756915

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[Anonymous No.757855]

>>756916
None.
If you're studying history, your view on the world, 'truth' and history as a subject itself will COMPLETELY change.
Just wait until you get a nice stash of required reading (trust me, you'll get plenty) which'll learn you to distinguish one view from the other.

[Anonymous No.757858]

>>756916
>'Scuse my English.
>speaks flawless english
Fuck you OP.

[Croaker !!DDgOIlOdqYI No.757880]

Anyone studying history should read Carr first.

[Anonymous No.757888]

>>757858

Maybe that's what the French say.

[Anonymous No.757905]

Read the Twelve Caesars because it's like a tabloid for leaders of Rome. Good shit, especially starting at Tiberius and his little boy fetish.

I was given fun historical titles to read in college... The biography on Vlad the Impaler was great, forgot the author and I don't have the book with me. There's also a great biography on David (the biblical figure, not the Neoclassical artist) that is totally full of bias, author thinks he was a douchebag, but it's a fun read.

WW1, I think Guns of August is pretty good, but boring as hell. Here I Stand is the most thorough Martin Luther bio.