Really had Oleg up on history.

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As daughter of Sargon the Great, she was probably one of the most learned people on the planet during her life.

Wilkinson's The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt is fairly accessible.

Chaucer would have been rather old when Edward iV took the throne for the first time in 1461. I think that you probably ment to write Henry IV who usurped more than 60 years earlier.

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Who are some of your guys favorite historical “rebels” (political or cultural) that not many know about?

You might like the Oregon trail by rinker buck. He traveled the trail a few years ago by wagon and talks about what life was like expanding westward

I've just finished a slightly different history book - *Making History, The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past * by Richard Cohen. Its tells the story of historians from Herodotus and Thucydides through to modern television documentary makers. It's a big book (660 pages before the footnotes), and a big sweep of time.

I think it generally works well. It covers the obvious historians (Gibbon, Suetonius), the obvious in hindsight (Shakespeare, Trotsky, Churchill) plus a range of voices that have been underrepresented. There are some great chapters on fiction as history, Marxist historians, Machiavelli and black historians.

Its a narrative read rather than a book on histiography, but it's all the more readable for it. I'd recommend it.

If there’s further updates on this, I’d appreciate it if you posted on here

Helge in Denmark is always some 50 year old dude with thick square glasses, and is an expert in some technical field.

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2nd battle of Coroneia. Thebans had a deep column and confronted the wide Phalanx of Agesilaos II. Agesialos was gravely injured and the Phalanx broken.

I really wish I could treasure hunt with my metal detector again.

Does anyone have recommendations for books about Egyptian history (any time period, ancient through modern) that are very easy and enjoyable to read? I'm taking my mom to Egypt this winter and a lot of the books on the recommended list are a bit dense for her so am looking for more!

While it doesn't specifically focus on the former SSRs I liked Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse 1970-2000 by Stephen Kotkin when I read it a few years ago. Short but has a lot of info.

There is no unitary chinese culture its empire based culture like roman, the chinese (zhonguo/central state) identity as we know it arose with zhou dynasty so counting the kingdoms before them as ''chinese'' is like counting etruscans as roman.

Thank you so much!!! <3

The cabin part is real, but for the most part people weren't isolated on the frontier. There were already people there. They might have been Indians, but usually early settlers were reliant on Indians and involved to some extent in their community. There was a recent book about Daniel Boone and his time on the frontier called The Kidnapping of Jemima Boone by Matthew Pearl that might be worth checking out. There's a couple recent books, one by Cassandra Tate and one by Blaine Harden on the Whitmans. They were pretty early settlers but you'll see they were still integrated into a community of settlers. If you want to get stories about the "lone white person" in a frontier area, you can look at the fur trappers, but all of them were integrated in one way or another into the indigenous communities. Usually they took an Indian wife so they could have freedom to travel and access to hunting. Maybe check out something like Ted Morgan's Wilderness at Dawn.

For N. American indigenous cultures maybe start with An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Rosa Dunbar Ortiz. It's a rough overview but manageable. Masters of Empire is a good book about the Anishinaabe people of Great Lakes region and there was recently a book called Seeing Red by Michael John Witgen that looks like it would be a good follow up. The Northern Paiutes of the Malheur by Dan Wilson is a good intro to one of the Great Basin groups. Chinookan People of the Lower Columbia, edited by Robert Boyd is a good overview of one of the Columbia groups.

Looking for recommendations for books giving insight into what life would be like for a family on the American frontier. Isolated life in a cabin in the woods, if such a thing occurred. What they would do to get food (hunting, growing food?), what kind of clothes they’d wear, what kind of illnesses could kill them, how the cabin would be laid out, how often passing travelers would come through and if they’d generally trade, et cetera.

Thanks!