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Does anyone have a recommendation for a book on the Iroquois confederation's history, especially its interactions with colonists and later the American government? I grew up not far from one of the several reservations in NY, and while I figured I was being lied to in school, I never really followed up on it. I know more about the plains tribes than the people whose land I grew up on.
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Thank you! Purchased.
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Jan 2, 2020 16:16
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i mean lol, but honestly same. if some series i like does a event/time period thats interesting. i will read about it.
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May 20, 2020 19:59
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Minenfeld! posted:I guess I have a bachelor's of lore?
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May 20, 2020 23:07
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Yeah, it just came naturally. I have always loved lore. I was that nerdy kid that liked to go to the lore museum, and was the only one in my class who liked field trips to the lore village. The blacksmith there was super cool.
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May 21, 2020 02:06
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Cyrano4747 posted:This explains your posting lore. I've got nuthin
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May 22, 2020 00:56
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Strange Cares posted:What's a good book about the Enlightenment in Europe?
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Jul 24, 2020 01:32
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Strange Cares posted:I don't know what that means, but sure. I can clarify more on what I'm looking for - written for someone who doesn't have a ton of grounding in the subject beyond what you learn in school, preferably with a focus on various enlightenment figures and their personalities. I was jokingly referring to this a couple posts above: Pick posted:Smart money is farming out the actual book writing process to somebody in another country who will do it for three dollars an hour, then just go through and make edits. Or don't, whatever.
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Jul 24, 2020 02:19
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I fear I am asking for an impossible thing here, but: Had a conversation with my 7th grader who was annoyed that her social studies class still acts like Africa is still all huts and Masai tribes, which made me realize that I know gently caress all about sub-saharan Africa except it got colonized and then there were a bunch of proxy wars after WWII. Has anyone written a good survey of African history, ideally pre-19th century? Or even an African version of "Looking East From Indian Country?" I fear such a thing doesn't exist because its such a massive topic with tons of tribal and ethnic histories intertwined.
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Jan 30, 2021 02:43
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stereobreadsticks posted:[quote="Chairman Capone" post="512115167"] Thanks to both of you. Its somewhere for me to start.
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Jan 31, 2021 02:57
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Since I'm already not sleeping and utterly terrified for America's future, are there any good books that explore popular support of fascism in America in the 1930s? I'm hoping I can take some solace from the process of ultimately choosing the right side in WWII (while letting IBM help with the holocaust and Coca Cola sell drinks to Nazis). Maybe I should just re-read The Plot Against America.
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May 11, 2021 16:59
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:just read about the KKK in the 20s and how they could hold ticker tape sized parades in Washington DC. Porfiriato posted:It’s not directly about it, but Hitler in Los Angeles was a good read about how a ring of basically amateur undercover agents, many of them Jewish, managed to keep tabs on and foil a lot of Nazi activity on the West Coast in the 1930s. As part of that it gets into the history of the pro-Nazi/fascist movement in America at the time and how it worked to generate popular support.
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May 11, 2021 18:22
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Looking for something insanely specific that my Amazon and google skills are not up to. Can anyone point to a history of Sears rise into a ubiquitous mail order company through it putting stores in every city and mall? There's some stuff written about its fall, and a lot of business-heavy reading, but I can't find a good history about it's growth as mail order and then onto main street. Context for this is looking at Amazon putting in warehouses in every city, sending out a toy catalog, and starting to build physical stores and wondering if they're just Sears 2.0
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Oct 28, 2021 13:44
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Telsa Cola posted:Sears was a ubiquitous mail order company before malls were really a thing. The Sears catalog kicks off in like the 1888s though selection was fairly limited.
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Oct 29, 2021 11:17
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Solaris 2.0 posted:It’s not a biography but The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen won a Pulitzer Prize. I have not read it yet, but it’s gotten rave reviews from people I know who’ve read it and it’s always great to get points of view about the war, from the north and the south, by Vietnamese themselves.
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Jan 28, 2022 00:12
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Is there a definitive book on COINTELPRO?
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Is there a definitive, digestible volume on repairing the world after WWII? I'm thinking more along the lines of how things were physically rebuilt, economic activity picked back up, people fed, etc. than an academic critique of the Marshall Plan.
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