The Rise of the West and Historical Methodology: Crash Course World History #212
In which John Green talks about the methods of writing history by looking at some of the ways that history has been written about the rise of the West. But first he has to tell you what the...
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Hi, I'm John Green, this is Crash Course World History, and today we're going to talk how history gets written. "Mr. Green! Mr. Green! I want to write books about history when I grow up." Well, we're not about the process of writing history today, Me From the Past. Also, you are a liar. So you're never going to be a history writer because, try as you might, you can't stop making things up. Maybe someday, if you're lucky, you'll write a historical novel. Although, probably not because, you know, it involves research, which you also suck at. So today we're going to talk about how historians answer questions and the choices they make in turning their ideas into books. We like to think of history as being the story of wh...
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Hi, I'm John Green, this is Crash Course World History, and today we're going to talk how history gets written. "Mr. Green! Mr. Green! I want to write books about history when I grow up." Well, we're not about the process of writing history today, Me From the Past. Also, you are a liar. So you're never going to be a history writer because, try as you might, you can't stop making things up. Maybe someday, if you're lucky, you'll write a historical novel. Although, probably not because, you know, it involves research, which you also suck at. So today we're going to talk about how historians answer questions and the choices they make in turning their ideas into books. We like to think of history as being the story of wh...
