So how is that different from a historical fiction book on the exact same subject? Obviously Maus is an allegory, but they're both telling the same story of people experiencing the same event, with aspects fictionalized or changed for the purpose of storytelling.

As long as historical fiction is well-researched and respectful and accurate to the events and real-life figures depicted, and as long as it's correctly labeled and not presented as nonfiction, I can't see it as sensationalizing anything.

A final question - what about narrative nonfiction, something like The Killer Angels, where the events of the battle are meticulously detailed and all characters are actual historical figures but the dialogue is fictionalized because obviously we don't know everything that was actually said?

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Maus is not fiction. Art Spiegelman told his parents’ story. Yes he used the allegory of cats and mice, but it doesn’t make it less true

I'm rolling that over and over in my mind, just can't place it though...

Kind of hard to spot when the author keeps jumping to irrelevant topics through the entire article.

It is Leon Uris, I have it on the shelf and it is as good as mentioned.

Thank you for that. Amazing! And a perfect complement to Ian’s Błyskawica one

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Thank you! The other was '44.

There is a reddit for historical fiction also,not discouraging from contining this reddit also though.

it existed here to a degree before of course, but it's 110% tiktok culture, spreading insanely rapidly here

I have always had a certain interest in history but I have only really been semi-seriously reading up on history this past week. And as you all may know there is quite a lot of history so I’ve been struggling to find some sort of beginning for me. I have listened to Dan Carlin’s king of kings and the first few episodes of the rest is history.

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Ooh this was my most recent special interest! My source is the podcast Revolutions by Mike Duncan which I highly recommend if you like hyper detailed history. But here’s my summary:

1. at the end of the 1800s there are a bunch of leftist groups fighting the Tsarist government. They broadly fall into 3 groups: the SRs (short for socialist revolutionaries), who want an agricultural, decentralized form of socialism; the Marxists, who want an industrial, authoritarian form of socialism; and the liberals, who want a western style democracy or constitutional monarchy.

2. the Marxists split into 2 political parties: the bolsheviks, run by Vladimir Lenin, who want a very orthodox form of Marxism, and the Mensheviks, led by Julius Martov, who want a more lenient, broad umbrella of Marxism. Trotsky begins as a Menshevik, then becomes a Bolshevik.

3. in 1905, a half-revolution forces the Tsar to accept a parliament, called the Duma. This Duma becomes dominated by liberals, who form a party called the Cadets. In 1906, however, the Tsar makes some laws that basically make the Duma mostly powerless and advisory. In this Duma, Alexander Karensky becomes the leading figure of liberals and moderate leftists. There is also a moderate party called the Octoberists who think the 1905 revolution was the only necessary revolution, and there are absolutist conservatives as well who don’t really have a named party.

4. in February 1917, a mostly leaderless mass movement overthrows the Tsar. Because it’s leaderless, there is no plan for what comes next. The liberals go to the Duma and say “ok now the Tsar is gone you’re in charge”. The leaders of the Duma declare themselves to be the Provisional Government which will rule til they can organize elections to a committee to create a constitution. After some shuffling and chaos, Karensky comes to lead the provisional government.

5. meanwhile, leftist go to working class neighborhoods, factories, and military barracks and say “now that the Tsar is gone we’re all in charge. Elect representatives to go to a council of factory workers and soldiers which will be the new government”. That council is called the Soviet, and neither the Soviet nor the Provisional Government want civil war so they agree to a vague undefined power sharing agreement til the constitution can be written and a final government made. at the top of the Soviet, which is a gigantic body of hundreds of representatives, is the Executive Committee of the Soviet, which is small enough to actually make decisions.

6. SRs, Mensheviks, and cadets join the provisional government. SRs and Mensheviks also join the Soviet. The Bolsheviks only join the Soviet and say the provisional government is illegitimate.

And that’s February 1917. There will be more complications as you go but that’s an oversimplified summary. Hope this helps, happy to answer follow up questions!

She never said they were fake

Can someone recommend me something like a world history series on YouTube or in a podcast?

The pianist isnt fiction…

speaking of which, serependity is a thing, fresh as fresh goes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNoyjHwVCmQ

The Poles did not, at the time, consider the Jews to be True Poles. Look at what happened to Jews who tried to return to their homes in Poland after the war to see an example. Plus, the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto were not all from Poland.

> I love museums but they sometimes thrive on artificial scarcity.

they have so much in storage its crazy

It is a giant mess, but I can recomend that you hear Mike Duncans podcast.

That reminds me of another settlement I read about, just can't remember its name, where they found Kermes vermilio and plants of the Trifolium genus over and over.

I read someplace about evidence of eqyptians using papyrus as the screen for a fine pulp paper veneer.

Paper is helpful in organizing logs, journals, and books in general. Clay tablets do ok, but the libraries get cumbersome quickly

In alot of cases the content is publicly owned and can't be copyrighted. Butthey will illegally claim copyright anyway.

Hard disagree, it shouldn't be a business at all, museums should be public services and funded as such. It is in humanity's interest to make sure we don't forget the past.