Looking to get a good overview of western history. Is this chart a good place to start?
>>24881462If all you want is pop history...
Also it's almost all war history. It isn't a good overview of western history at all, it's painfully one-sided in terms of subject.
No history reading list is complete without this classic
>>24881462you really only need one book
>>24881462nay, start with the greeks
>>24881548you never made it past mythology you larping fag
>>24881488>checkedthat book sucks ass
>>24881488I was memed into getting this book but luckily I sat on the bookstore lawn and read enough about the superiority of cannibal new Guinea people that I was able to return it and get my shekels back
>>24881560anyone with a basic college education has read homer, sophocles, plato, and aristotle. most have been exposed to stoicism and epicureanism. also commonly read are thucydides and xenophon. so start THERE
>>24881496I have tried a few "general history" books and they were all pretty poor
>>24881657i have a bachelors in nursing i live in the real world
>>24881471The cheeks of elitism spread wide with this one
>>24882157Wow, you don't debate the Euthyphro Dilemma with your patients? I'd immediately walk out of the hospital if you were my nurse (with my catheter).
>>24882137NTA, but Barzun's book is pretty good. Not the only book you need, but a good way to get the running themes of modern Western history before you start diving into other topics
>>24881657>anyone with a basic college education has read homer, sophocles, plato, and aristotle.If only this were actually true. It's grim out there
>>24882496This anon knows...
>>24882496The death of classical education
>>24881462List sucks
>>24882833Why?
>>24881462cool chartyou have talentmake moar
This is my history list but i dont remember the context of where i found them. which one should i check out first?
