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Hi Sarah. I really hope you join us for the discussion of Army at Dawn:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
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Hi Nancy. The Civil War is such an interesting period with the battles and great stories.Here is our topic:
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A warm welcome to all the new members who responded so quickly to our request to introduce yourself. What a great mix of lovers of history of many eras and subjects!!!....Civil War, WWI, Latin America, the US Progressives and military history. Bryan has given each of you a specific link to your particular interest and when you browse the threads you will find other areas that will catch your attention. If you have any questions, ask the moderators.............and enjoy!!
Hi!My name is Hannah, and I am a Palestinian American currently living in Jerusalem. I've always loved history, especially the periods of great human achievement -- The Renaissance, The Scientific Revolution, The Industrial Revolution, etc. I also love reading about the Age of Exploration and books that depict the progression of time and the changes it brings to society.
Glad to be part of this group!
Hannah Faris
Greetings everyone! My name is Gianna and although I'm not a history major or anything I really enjoy books that have to do with history. I am excited to be a part of this club and to meet all of you.Thank you :-)
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hi, my name is inas, I am from Syria and I live in Syria, my major was archaeology and I work in the directorate-general of antiquities and museum but my interest has always been history and languages which are related somehow to archaeology, my country speak history and I grow up between old walls and ancient stones where behind every corner a story to be told and a lesson to be learnt, some times I feel like living history rather than reading it, I am looking forward to be part of this group and participate in discussions
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Hii ; Well My name is Naada am from morocco !i have 16 years old . i joined this group because i found that history interest me and this group is the right group !And thanx For accepting me as a member :)
My name is Saku Mantere. I work as a professor of management and organization at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland, and as a professor of strategic management at Warwick Business School, UK. My main interest in history is around historical institutions as organizations: Prussian bureacracy, inquisition, etc.
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Lacey wrote: "Hi, my name is Lacey. I am an American living in Germany. I was in the US Air Force, and retired 2 years ago. I decided to stay in Germany for a few years - I'm trying to learn the language (which ..."I guess I should have mentioned that, while I enjoy almost all history, my interests are really focused on medieval European history... :)
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Welcome Saku. I find organizational behavior interesting. I hope you get your history "fix" here.
Hi I am new to the group. I live in Canada on Vancouver Island and love history primarily European and Canadian
Hello Meghan and welcome. We have a number of European topics:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
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Hi folks, Stephen Roycroft here, 49, look 48; living in Northern Ireland - a speck that gorges on history and has risked implosion all too often in its past. All different now, a delightful place to live and bring up my children. My type of history is often the vast sweep, one panning decades like The State of Africa, A Secret History of MI6, Christianity - The first 3000 years. I delight in recurring intersections of all world narratives when I read the likes of Che Guevara, a Revolutionary Life and the Totsky Trilogy, or Gandhi followed by Martin Luther King biographies. The past should be the pre-school of the future, and history books often remind me of how we never seem to grow up. They remain a delightful and enduring prism with which to view and then evaluate the present. To the authors - you keep writing and we'll keep reading. Thanks guys.
Hi, I'm Yasmine.I'm 24 years old and finishing my last year of medical studies soon.
I'm interested into reading in general.
I'm interested into history because it helps me understand the politic atmosphere in my region ( I'm from MENA region )
The whole situation with all the media controlling the informations and modelling them, is confusing.
So further research are important in order to build an opinion and know the truth ( or at least get near it )
I read ( and speak ) French mostly , I also read in Arabic as long as the text is simple.
And I read in English although there is a lot about that language that I need to learn till I will be able to open a book with ease.
I'm happy to join the group :)
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Hi Yasmine. I hope your last year in medical school goes fast for you. Good luck and welcome.Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you are ready to cite a book. (There is a link on the top right of the reply box.) It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link at the very bottom of the post after your text. Because it is on the bottom, it calls the reader's attention to the book/author and increases the readability of your posts.
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Greetings - I'm Dave, a new member of the History Group. I'm a life-long resident of Wisconsin (US). I've enjoyed reading about a wide variety of historical topics since my middle school days. Currently, my primary interests are (a) late-18th and early-19th century American political history, and (b) Polish & Russian history.
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Hello y'all, my name is Greg. I am an out-of-work insurance underwriter, currently employed as a server. I have always enjoyed reading history, especially military history. As I have gotten older, I have become less interested in the details of campaigns and more interested in their context and the stories of those people who experience those great events.I have been a (not very skilled) wargamer since age seven when I played Avalon Hill's Third Reich for the first time. Over the years my interests expanded to Napoleonic miniature wargaming and computer gaming as well.
I have selected and organized approximately 150 books on military history. Starting with some meta books on military history, then moving from the Ancient era, and ending with some personal narratives from the Iraq War, I hope to trace some 4000 years of (Western) military history, with an emphasis on the years 1789(the Wars of Napoleon and the French Revolution) to the Second World War.
Thanks for allowing me to share your thoughts and experiences:).
Hello, my name is Liam. I live in the rainy state of washington. I joined this group because I am a student and history is my favorite subject in school. I love ancient history and I am excited for the discussions.
Hi everyone,My name is Michael, and I'm passionate about history. I live in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland, the South of Ireland but it's in the North of Ireland. But not Northern Ireland. Figure that one out!
I was born in Belfast and lived there until I was 30, and you can't help but be aware of the living power of history in such a divided city.
However, the world is a big place and so I've had a lifelong desire to learn as much as possible about its history and culture. Sadly, the more I learn, the more I realise that you can only ever scratch the surface. But hey, it's fun in the process!
Look forward to sharing in the discussions.
Hi I am Mayur Popade from India. I am student and looking forward to discussions on this page. I am die hard fan of history.
Hi everybody,I'm Beth Storheim from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I've always LOVED history, and I love reading about history too.
I'm not always good at keeping up with Goodreads, though. I joined this group a month ago, and I'm only just now introducing myself! Sheesh. Well, I'll try not forget about this group from now on. :p
Cheers!
Hello. My name is Jeff, and I am a new member. I live in the USA, in the State of Maryland, in Baltimore County. I am a 56-year-old attorney. I owe my love of history to my father, who during the Civil War Centennial in the early 1960's, used to read me accounts of Civil War battles. And since I grew up in Atlanta, there were battlefields nearby and historical markers all around, and the public golf course near my home still bore the fading scars of Confederate trenches from the city’s outer defense line. The offshore barrier island where we went for vacation each summer had been the site of Spanish missions and British colonial forts. So I grew up in an environment where historical reminders were all around, and where history was thoroughly and carefully documented by the public authorities.
In college, I came to love the history of ancient Greece and medieval Europe, especially the Byzantine Empire. After college, I lived in London and did an Area Studies degree dealing with Russia and Eastern Europe, so periodically I will still delve into a book dealing with those areas. More recently, in the aftermath of 9/11, I devoted a lot of my reading time to studying the history of the Middle East from the time of Mohammed to the coming of the Mongols. I also love traveling to places where history was made.
I cherish historians who are both meticulous researchers and great writers. I loved Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: A Narrative, and I packed Steven Runciman’s History of the Crusades along with me on a trip through Jordan and Israel more than three decades ago. I think C.V. Wedgwood (whom I first discovered when I was assigned to read her The Thirty Years War in college) is an amazing stylist, especially with her deft portraits of individuals. I love the historical writing of C. Vann Woodward (the American postbellum South) and Peter Green (ancient Greece, especially his Alexander to Actium and Alexander of Macedon). More recently, I have greatly enjoyed the vivid writing and meticulous research of the first two volumes of Rick Atkinson’s Liberation Trilogy, and I am currently being blown away by Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands.
by Edward Gibbon
by Shelby Foote
by Steven Runciman
by C.V. Wedgwood
by C. Vann Woodward
by Peter Green
by Rick Atkinson
by Timothy Snyder
Michael wrote: "Hi everyone,My name is Michael, and I'm passionate about history. I live in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland, the South of Ireland but it's in the North of Ireland. But not Northern Irel..."
Hi Michael,
Welcome to the group. I have recently started to read about my Irish roots can you suggest any good books about Irish History. My family was from Skibberrean and left in the early 1840's.
Linda
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Wow, Jeff. I now have reader envy. If I could afford it, I'd put you on retainer and have you brief me on all that you've read. Alas, I am a slow reader, down to the last 10 years, maybe, of reading given the medical history on the patriarchal side of the family. We become history with great regularity right around 70 years after birth. Funny how family medical history's expiration date can be so strictly enforced. Not like the library's due dates.My only lament is that I stand zero chance of getting through the TBR file I have already accumulated like a pack rat that thinks it will live forever.
Anywho, the India project looks promising and of interest. I also have put together a shelf on histories of the Mediterranean Sea, which I had planned to start this past summer.
Hello Greg, Liam, Michael, Mayur, and Beth.So glad you could join us here. Jerome has helped out with some good links and feel free to browse our topics.
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Nicolette wrote: "Hi All!My name is Nicolette and I'm a recent graduate (who has been fortunate enough to find a full-time job) with a passion for all things historical!
After forgoing my History major with a Pol..."
Hi Nicolette! My name is Doreen and I'm new here too. One book I would suggest with more of a political twist is
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Bill Press. Regardless of your political affiliation, and that is your business and no one else's, it's just a damn good book.
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Hello. My name is Juneau and almost recently joined this club. I am 13 years old and I absolutely love history. i am very excited for joining this group and I look forward to it.
Hi Everyone, and thanks for having me in your vibrant and interesting group.I've just finished reading about the Borgias - prompted by the television series of course, and looking to see to what extent the series writers took liberties with reality. It seems they made Cesare to be nicer than cle arly he was, and I'm hoping the Lucrezia emerges by the end as the good wife and Duchess she became.
The producers painted Cardinal de Rovere as a devout man, whereas in reality he seems to have been as venal and worldly as Rodrigo Borgia - as indeed most of them were... But their lives were short...
The television series is good, as it gives us the desire to find out what really happened. I'm fascinated by how young they all were when they achieved great things, and how much was expected of them from puberty onwards. No returning to the nest in your late twenties!!
If they were to look at us, I'd think they'd consider us as remaining young for twice as long as they - and staying active for twice as long - as we think when reading science fiction.
My own history is military, and I'm particularly interested in eye witness accounts; in which the perceptions of ordinary people are complied to make up a picture of the past. I'm less interested in modern interpretation.
Please get in touch. It would be great to share thoughts.
Martin wrote: "Wow, Jeff. I now have reader envy. If I could afford it, I'd put you on retainer and have you brief me on all that you've read. Alas, I am a slow reader, down to the last 10 years, maybe, of readin..."No need to put me on retainer, Martin. Years back, I posted a list in (historically) chronological order at Amazon.com of some of my favorite histories (which includes some of the ones I referenced in my introduction). You can find it under the name "jeffergray."
I'm sorry to hear the family actuarial record leaves you feeling like your reading clock may be ticking down. But that may at least help encourage you to make the best possible use of your reading time. I have reasonable hopes of living a few decades more, but that still probably wouldn't be enough to complete everything that is (or should be) on my TBR list.
Jeff,Thanks for the link.
Yeah, I'm starting to look at books a little differently and asking myself: "Am I really going to get around to reading it?"
As Jim Carey's Grinch said: "Focus, Max!"
Hi, my name is Claire, I'm from the Pacific Northwest, and I've joined the group to sleuth out recommendations for mid-19th century American and European historical fiction. Then too, I'm always looking for a good read, and lately historical fiction has become a primary interest of mine. Thanks for letting me tag along. My most recent historical fiction read was "Whole Hog," an obscure book by David Wagoner. Hilarious and charming.
Hilarious & charming mid-19th century America sounds like: The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
Not so hilarious, in fact disturbing:
World Enough and Time by Robert Penn Warren
Conjuring the pictures is beyond my skill set.
Interesting, thanks for the suggestion!
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Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the "add book/author" feature when you are ready to cite a book. (There is a link on the top right of the reply box.) It makes things so much easier for people to see your book recommendations, because they can see the cover and the links to the author. And it helps the Goodreads software connect books with groups that talk about them. When citing a book and/or author, please put the book cover, author's photo and author's link at the very bottom of the post after your text. Because it is on the bottom, it calls the reader's attention to the book/author and increases the readability of your posts.
This is how a book should look:
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