HACKER Q&A
📣 rootsandstones

Good History Blogs?


Do you have recommendations for history blogs?

Similar to: https://acoup.blog/


  👤 hayst4ck Accepted Answer ✓
Timothy Snyder is just fantastic: https://snyder.substack.com/

His class on Ukraine on Youtube is fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJczLlwp-d8

If I had a history class taught like this in college I might have looked at it. I think in one of his classes about Ukraine he mentioned that he was a programmer at some point. His explanations of history are often very input/output oriented or explained almost like an algorithm.

His books are also worth reading and every one of his lectures on youtube I have enjoyed.

He's great at giving historical perspective to current affairs, and probably more than anyone else, I feel like he makes the current political climate make sense.


👤 warrenm
Here are a couple I follow over on datente.com, or that I check on a periodic basis:

- https://www.filfre.net <- the Digital Antiquarian

- https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com <- Restricted Data

- https://www.c82.net <- C82, the works of Nicholas Rougeux

- https://history.stackexchange.com/questions <- History.SE ... as with any SE site, there are pros and cons - but a lot more "pros" than "cons", imo


👤 akg_67
I highly recommend/r/AskHistorians subreddit. Lot of good info from knowledgeable people.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/


👤 Leftium
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/

Not a blog, but very good family of YouTube channels: https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryoftheUniverse/channels

- History of the Universe

- History of the Earth


👤 eimrine
What is your definition of "good" in context of history blogs, can you give at least one example as not good (mediocre, bad, lame) blogs which may be considered as history blog?

And what is the "history" blog is if absolutely any blog gives its creator an ability to edit some ancient records, is such concept as histority at least possible for a web log?


👤 theGnuMe
Why not a book? I would think books would be more accurate in some sense as they usually have to pass an editor and peer review.

👤 giantg2
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