As a way to improve my inferential capacity, I decided a couple of years ago to make an honest attempt to learn as much as I could about general history. After graduating college, I didn't really have a sense of how to continue learning about historical events sans Google.
I recently started reading Will Durant's historical series "The Story of Civilization", as I greatly enjoy his writing style. However, upon reading reviews of his work on Amazon I became aware of the (obvious) issues inherent with a work that was produced in the middle of the 20th century; the first book "Our Oriental History" is littered with anachronisms and racial biases that are common for the time (1940 on).
This got me to thinking, there must be some [generally] agreed upon version of relatively objective history, albeit most likely split up between topics, time periods and authors.
To bring it back to the original question: is it worth staying entirely within Will Durant's life work, or should I venture outside of his publications for specific topics? Most notably, I'm assuming that his understanding of Asian cultures is lacking, but also that there are other unknown unknowns.
Please keep in mind this is not hypothetical, I am already committed to reading the entirety of his work and am merely looking to verify the accuracy of his accounts. I am placing a heavy preference on readability, so please keep that in mind as well.