Look how amazing we’ve been, how awful we’ve been, how the world around us was built to what we see today. But McCormick’s multiple manuscripts never saw the light of dayuntil now, with Smithsonian Books’ publication of Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey, edited by John W. Others are what I like to refer to as “domino history,” where you follow one item or idea throughout history and see the effect it has had, how one thing that seemed so insignificant and unrelated to everything else allowed empires to be built. Some of them put historical events side by side to make it easier to comprehend that a lot of this stuff was quite literally happening at the same time. Some of them cover overall history of an area, or the overall history of us. So I’m sharing some of my favorite world history books here. Graffiti covered the alleys of Pompeii, not unlike the stuff you would find in a bar’s restroom. People stopped being Catholic so they could drink their version of chocolatl, until Pope Alexander VII and said it, and other liquids, did not break their required fast. Sometimes as medicine, sometimes as just rich people being rich. Los Angeles Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The. We don’t have as many mummies as we should because people ate them. We visit the fertile Fayum, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and finally, the pulsing city of. It’s fascinating to look back and see how far we’ve come as a species, while also seeing that we have barely changed at all. History is one of my regular fixations, to where half my watchlists tend to be some PBS, Smithsonian, or BBC documentary covering some strange, little focused on part of world history. Or in the middle of the night, when I’m trying to go to sleep, thinking “what if I went back to school for a history degree? I know I literally just graduated with my bachelor’s, but still…” You know how it goes. I like to joke sometimes that I was a history major in a past life.
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