r/JewsOfConscience • u/Specialist-Gur Ashkenazi • Aug 14 '24
History Seeking recommendations!
Any really good history podcasts or history channels to listen to? I want to deep dive into history of empires, historical atrocities, basically history in general… particularly if it’s not commonly talked about history. I really want to deep dive but I’m not the best reader, so listening would be ideal.
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u/Garak_The_Tailor_ Aug 14 '24
Blowback is good, if youre looking for recent history of American empire
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u/StrongGagReflex Aug 14 '24
Happy one - Cool people who did cool stuff
Sad one - behind the bastards
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u/Benyano Jewish Aug 14 '24
The revolutions podcast is great for deep dives into revolutionary histories and the conditions that led to them!
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u/Thisisme8719 Arab Jew Aug 14 '24
Ottoman History Podcast. Lots and lots and lots of interviews with leading experts in different fields. Not strictly Ottoman since they also have pre and post Ottoman content. But they haven't been so active lately.
Another option is find a book that interests you on PDF and use a TTS program (including Microsoft Edge)
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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Aug 15 '24
Hardcore History by Dan Carlin might be of interest. I can recommend Mike Duncan in general.
If you want a starter, the Dig interview with Usama Makdisi was really good.
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u/ApplesauceFuckface Ashkenazi Aug 14 '24
Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and how we earn it at work, what language we speak and how we raise our children. From Wondery, host Patrick Wyman, PhD (“Fall Of Rome”) helps us understand our world and how it got to be the way it is.
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u/notgaryhark Aug 14 '24
I really recommend the documentary Peace, Propoganda, and the promised land.
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u/velvetjacket1 Aug 14 '24
The Ottoman History Podcast is my favorite! I also love William Dalrymple and Anita Anand's podcast, Empire. Lately, I've been listening to The Anti-Imperialist Archive, which probably isn't as close to what OP is looking for as the other two, but it features a lot of historical speeches and interviews related to Palestine, so it is a historical deep dive in that sense.
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u/Lake-of-Birds Non-Jewish historian Aug 14 '24
Ottoman History Podcast. But each episode is just a one-off interview with a scholar about their research, rather than a narrative storytelling or sequential type of history podcast. That said I've found the quality to be quite good for a decade and they get into all kinds of fascinating niche historical topics, including languages in Mandatory Palestine, bathhouses in Ottoman Istanbul, etc.