How is Will Durant’s The Reformation? I’m always interested in reading more books on that subject

I highly doubt the first fossil finders in North America were slaves who came on in 1492 at the earliest. The Native Americans were here for thousands of years before Columbus, and so were the Vikings. It's more likely to believe they were the first to discover fossils.

But, yes, the article points out a much needed aspect of American history that the first archaeologists working for westerners were enslaved.

Very cool thread!! I'll be working on a paper on millennialism in Ninteenth Century America soon. Looking for books, resources, anything that could give me some insights! Thanks!!

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You might look at biographies by Phillip Short of Mao,Pol Pot ,and his recent one of Putin.And also R.J.B. BOSWORTH works on Mussolini and Italy.

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I mean it makes perfect sense that people doing hard labour outdoors would be likely to find fossils

wow, thank you! you made that look easy.

Hard to argue that first fossil were not discovered by Indigenous people, however consider this colonization of current US geographical area started 1492 first ship with slaves landed in 1619. That is 127 years and it is very possible that some of the early settlers discovered fossils.

How could it be that people who were living in NA for millennia found fossils before other people that came to the US just 500 years ago?

I'd be really interested to see the cannon after they the finish the cleaning.

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‘The Secret History of the Mongol Queens’ by Jack Weatherford. Those Mongol women were badass

I recommend ‘A Land So Strange’ by Andres Resendez. I flew through that book.

Wow I was about comment the same. Nearing the end now and I loved it! Mongol history is endlessly interesting to me. Weatherford doesn’t really talk about the scale of the destruction during the Mongol conquests though.

The Gordon Wood one is highly regarded. Also, Five Books has this article on the best Ben Franklin books: https://fivebooks.com/best-books/benjamin-franklin-d-g-hart/

Walter Isaacson's got one too. He's not a dedicated historian of the period but his bioraphies are popular. http://libwww.freelibrary.org/podcast/episode/892

You could also read Kelsa Pellettiere's piece in the Bulkwart from when the Ken Burns doc came out. You can also hit her up on twitter where she's Franklin Fangirl or something. https://www.thebulwark.com/ken-burns-pbs-documentary-review-the-worldly-ben-franklin/

Did the British gain anything from pressuring others into abolition?

Saving Titanic isn't just a documentary, but a fully scripted and acted movie told from the perspective of the coal shovelers and engineers who stayed in the bowels of the ship to keep the pumps and lights on. The movie is nicely edited with points where a narrator explains certain things that the crewmen themselves wouldn't be able to know at the time. (Like a further hull breech that wasn't visible because it was in a coal bunker, between boiler rooms)

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Thr audiobook for both are amazing

I’m maybe 30% through American Prometheus and I can’t put it down. The research is impeccable, there may not be a more interesting person from that era than Oppenheimer, and there is just so much I didn’t know about him beyond the bomb.

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They aren't related topics but does anyone have any resources regarding the:

• Canadian invasion of Italy in WW2?

• The Napoleonic Wars?

Not really bothered what the level of detail is about the Canadian stuff, but I'd rather the Napoleonic stuff be easy enough to digest. I know the bullet points but I don't want to jump into an extremely complex read.

Can you guys recommend a good basic biography on Ben Franklin? Every book I see is either a kids book or it says “general biographies are all over the place and this book will focus on this one weird thing”.