People Who Are Obsessed With History!!!!!

This is gonna be such a spectular thread!!!!!

K, I love history soooooooooooo much!!

Like for example, 49 years ago today, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis was taking place while Kennedy was in office! Before he got assassinated in Dallas Texas, on November 22, 1963...That was sooo sad!

I love the Kennedys...

Then, yesterday, was crazy!! So much happened!

Sir Isaac Brock died at Queenston Heights, Upper Canada at 7:30 in the morning...He was 43 years old...

And it marked the first anniversary of the rescue of the Chilean miners after being trapped in the mine for 69 days!

And the day before that Oct. 12, Barack Obama celebrated his 19th Wedding Anniversary!

I love history...

Share ur stories, facts, favourite war hero, anything historical is awesome!

I love history soooo much!

for me history starts in 1648 in osnabruch and munster. Sorry Old Rome lovers... that was just a pre-party for the real thing.

of course, demo version sometimes look much cooler than the actual product.

When I studied history back in the day I hated the books because it was always remembering wars and wars and dates etc.

Now I like to put more focus on the various individuals that effected our history.
I much prefer to look at the psychology behind the different rulers and societies and what the psychology of each time period conveyed.

The significance of looking at history from a psychological standpoint allows us to learn about how so many times societies were so impacted by the psychological status of the different rulers. Some of the rulers were very mentally unstable human beings and often distorted the societal beliefs and conducts.

Open Eyes

I watched The Tudors miniseries, and that was SO INTERESTING!!! You so right, Eyes, the psychology (& romance!) etc is so much more fun than the dry dates we got in school! Like it's not even the same subject!

I love history too, Panda Girl! My first academic love. Actually got into the History Ph.D. program at University of Chicago but didn't go! (More fool me.) Love those names and dates! My favorites are plagues (the old Athenian, the sixth century Justinian, and that great old war horse, the 1347 Black Death!) And then those wonderful historians! Have you read ALL of Gibbon? What about good old Lord Macaulay? All available entirely for free on the internet. Then there are the historian rebels! Like the author of Wisconsin Death Trip who turned that in (if you haven't read it, you REALLY have to!) as his Ph.D. thesis! There's just so much! Probably my fave of faves is good old Gregory of Tours, whom I've re-read maybe six times. He really was the most amazing contemporary historian of Merovingian France (or Frankreich as it then was). I love Merovingian France. Talk about the Wild West! They would have eaten Wyatt Earp alive and chewed up Jesse James for dessert. Ancient Egypt. The real inside story of what the Romans ate for dinner. Saracen incursions into Dark Age Italy and France. The 30 Years War! Isaac Newton's father! Queen Christina of Sweden! The Chevalier d'Eon! Peter the Great! The Chinese visit to Virginia in the 1400's! The REAL invention of pasta! The history of surgery BEFORE anesthetics! The Marquis de Sade! The price of food in 1804! It just goes on and on and on and on!

Yes hankster, not so boring if we get to see all the psychology that is there now which makes all of it so much more interesting. Sometimes when I look at the history of man some of the things that humans did, the attrocities that were considered entertainment.

Ygrec, I will have to find time to do more reading I have been just so swept away by other issues in my life. But so much to learn and ponder.

Open Eyes

Interesting posts!!!

Im having Historical Films Marathon...

So far I plan on watching Ever After, A Documentary of War of 1812, The Patroit, 13 Days...

What else is good?

Yeah I also have 2 watch King Lear as well...Yeah...

Its 4 English...

Churchill tells us history is written by the victors. Compare the portrayal of the Bataan death march with the portrayal of the Cherokee trail of tears. What about the internment of American Japanese during WWII.? In 2004, Michelle Malkin argues in her new book, "In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War 2 and the War on Terror," that things are not as black and white as we've been led to believe. To the contrary, Malkin argues that "the national security measures taken during World War 2 were justifiable, given what was known and not known at the time".

In Korematsu vs. the United States, the Supreme Court justified the executive order as a wartime necessity. When the order was repealed, many found they could not return to their hometowns. Hostility against Japanese Americans remained high across the West Coast into the postwar years as many villages displayed signs demanding that the evacuees never return. As a result, the interns scattered across the country.

In 1988, Congress attempted to apologize for the action by awarding each surviving intern $20,000. While the American concentration camps never reached the levels of Nazi death camps as far as atrocities are concerned, they remain a dark mark on the nation's record of respecting civil liberties and cultural differences.

Santayana is known for his (often-misquoted) comments: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfill it",[1] and "[O]nly the dead have seen the end of war."[2] The latter sentence has often been falsely attributed to Plato; the former is itself a misquote of a statement by Edmund Burke. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santayana

Too often these days, I see history not as a guide to avoid unwanted entanglements but as a precedent to continue the wrongdoing of an earlier era. Two wrongs to not make a right. Then again, the politicos are so bold that Kissinger can say,"The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer."

I remember that quote!!

Yeah

Interesting points!!