and if you find what youre looking for/write us a letter and tell us what it is
788 notes
·
View notes
William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States. Spent his entire presidential career bedridden with pneumonia and died in 30 days of office.
And even he ranked higher than the Orange Dumbass in presidential rankings. LMAO let that sink, bathtub, toilet and bidet in
159 notes
·
View notes
And historians will call them: bros in a psycocompetitive relationship that can be construed to be romantic but not explicit
2K notes
·
View notes
*defined here as: people that don’t have graduate or post-graduate degrees in history, but have nonetheless made full-time careers studying history.
62 notes
·
View notes
“hiSTORy iS WRitteN bY THe vicTORs¡”
Oh do fuck off with that Churchillian, pompous, small-minded, imperialist, triumphalist Great Man Theory bullshit!
That stopped being true after 1945 and you know it!
Get in the bin with that shite!
Besides I’m pretty sure that quote was actually about biased narratives.
Mind you, I’m not using it to justify revisionism or “lost cause” narratives! That shit can also get in the fucking bin! Starting yesterday.
50 notes
·
View notes
Are there any historians who you make sure to get every book that they write no matter what the subject is and if so who?
Oh yeah, most definitely, there are a number of them. Just to name a few: Doris Kearns Goodwin; H.W. Brands; Jon Meacham; Rick Atkinson; Nathaniel Philbrick; Bob Woodward; Robert Caro; Robert Dallek; Rick Perlstein; Ron Chernow; Peter Baker; Fergus M. Bordewich; David I. Kertzer; David McCullough; Ben Macintyre; Edmund Morris; Erik Larson; David O. Stewart; James F. Simon; James Holland; Antony Beevor; Joseph J. Ellis; Christopher Hibbert; Douglas Brinkley; Lawrence Wright...the list goes on-and-on and I'm undoubtedly forgetting some important names, but I definitely have every book published by all of those authors (except for Beevor, who I'm missing a few titles from). Not only am I a book lover and book collector, but I'm kind of a completist, so it's often hard me to resist going out of my way to get everything by certain authors.
(And they aren't historians, but I also am a completist when it comes to Sam Shepard, John Steinbeck, Robert Greene, and Hunter S. Thompson.)
22 notes
·
View notes
"Historians will say they were close friends."
But not these historians!
44 notes
·
View notes
IMO the best historians are the ones who just think it's neat when people do stuff.
218 notes
·
View notes
I fucking love historians. Just. Love them. They’re weird cowboy cryptids devoting their lives to the most obscure topics you can imagine
64 notes
·
View notes
not to be a slut but id totally be your historian if you'd be mine
25 notes
·
View notes