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If we're talking about mediums for history,not sure about wikipedia, but i think an high-quality, high volume forum witha good search , like reddit.com/r/askh
by minthd 11y ago
If we're talking about mediums for history,not sure about wikipedia, but i think an high-quality, high volume forum witha good search , like reddit.com/r/askhistorians [1] is a great one , better than books in many cases.
And yes, maybe some books solve this, but it's very rare as far as i've noticed. There's something about books, also evident in non-fiction that makes people write too much unneeded stuff.
[1]It's far better to search this forum using google, using site:reddit.com/r/askhistorians
- saturdaysaint 11y agoThanks for the recommendation but haven't you just pointed me to a forum of heavy book readers? Every top answer I've read cites a book or a long form journal article as its source. If you wanted to know one specific thing, I'm sure this is a great resource (sincerely: thanks!), but I doubt the posters themselves would recommend their own posts over the authoritative books they cite if you wanted to develop anything like deep knowledge on a given topic. This might be a great place to start, but if you actually wanted to make your own deep connections about history or substantial ideas or wanted to understand the economic/cultural/political/technical origins of well anything, I'm astounded that people think they can cobble that from websites, let alone ones that are decidedly not long form.