History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture

Description: A place for discussing history in general.

Why do you read history? What does it mean to you? How do you approach various interpretations of the past? What are the limits in trying to understand past peoples and periods? How do you think about various approaches to history and alternate philosophies of history? Do you have particular interests in history that others might find intriguing? How did you get into this arcane subject in the first place?

Please feel welcome to introduce any other questions, ideas or threads relevant to The Big Picture.

Most recent members: Atomicmutant, PatrickMueller, scribulous, Westlake, zowin11, katekasserman, normshaifer, dougcornelius, simplicimus, Cecrow, JPB, shellibrary, erika357, tractorboy, Trelew, erinbenko, theoria, theoldman, ludmillalotaria, dvdbokbulimiker, marcusescano, thcson, looneydame, bernsad, LisaCurcio, jerrybookguy, network-janitor, MsMixte, Dirklectisch, RebeccaAnn214 total

Created: Mar 28, 2009 by stellarexplorer; Language: English

Group Talk

 
Topics messagesLast message 
German history at 30,000 feet 127Feicht, Today 9:13pmignore
Original site of Dog domestication questioned 55stellarexplorer, Today 12:48amignore
Misc Thread - mach 2 82kokipy, Wednesday 5:08pmignore
Vanity Killing Social Sciences and the Humanities? 13Garp83, Tuesday 6:57pmignore
Best history class gimmick/lesson? 7ThePam, November 1ignore
They're Still Doing It 56Garp83, October 31ignore
Relativism and Constructivism 48BarkingMatt, October 28ignore
USED BOOK STORES 94staffordcastle, October 28ignore
For the Lovers of Science in Here... 7clamairy, October 26ignore
Making Time for Homer 32Garp83, October 25ignore
Classical Studies 21geneg, October 22ignore
Beyond the textbook 34Garp83, October 21ignore
Boundary Conditions for Essential Earth-System processes 7Garp83, October 18ignore
Five Most Important History Books I've Read in the Last 5 Years 82Feicht, October 14ignore
The Secret History – Donna Tartt 14Garp83, October 14ignore
Distorting American History 12Busifer, October 12ignore
Our Earliest History 76Garp83, October 7ignore
Did Beer build the first Internet? 4Feicht, September 29ignore
At last we are leaving Earth! 40Feicht, September 25ignore
SCIENCE vs NORSE MYTHOLOGY.... the debate rages on... 37Feicht, September 16ignore
Edward Kennedy, 1932-2009 32MarianV, September 3ignore
Historical fiction used as textbooks? 55samrose20, September 2ignore
Group Milestone 10geneg, August 28ignore
The Future of Independent Bookstores 22walf6, August 26ignore
Fiction Books Currently Reading by Us Non-Fiction types 72Garp83, August 26ignore
Original site of Dog domestication questioned 1stellarexplorer, August 4ignore
On Racism and the Human Condition. 341Garp83, July 31ignore
Internet history aids 5marieke54, July 31ignore
Worst Presidents 68Garp83, July 29ignore
Protecting the Guild? 6Busifer, July 28ignore
Maps of Time 116Garp83, July 27ignore
40 Years Since the Moon Landing 12stellarexplorer, July 22ignore
Best Teaching Company Courses 3jennieg, July 22ignore
A Salute to the Wheel 15WholeHouseLibrary, July 18ignore
Translations 2cemanuel, July 12ignore
Reading comics? 7stellarexplorer, July 7ignore
"Collections..." 70LizzieD, July 1ignore
Megafauna extinction 22cemanuel, June 27ignore
Iconic Photographs... 19stellarexplorer, June 27ignore
MISC is Not a Topic and should be replaced by more SPECIFIC Topic Titles 18walf6, June 18ignore
Viewpoints 21Garp83, June 16ignore
Americas, Influenza & Epidemics 37TLCrawford, June 12ignore
Europe Between the Oceans 5Feicht, June 9ignore
In the middle of Maps of Time 14JulianneArdianLee, June 8ignore
Ancient Rome or Ancient Greece 133Garp83, June 6ignore
The "Unknown Rebel" Appreciation Thread 19kokipy, June 6ignore
On Deep History and the Brain 5walf6, June 5ignore
Humor In History 8Garp83, June 3ignore
If there is only one story in American history, what is it? 30walf6, May 30ignore
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky: Colour Photography in 1910s 11walf6, May 21ignore
On the benefit of listening to historians you don't agree with... 17Feicht, May 6ignore
DNA and the big picture. 15Garp83, May 5ignore
Big history / historians in the news 9stellarexplorer, May 2ignore
If Obama Could Get Advice ... 17geneg, April 22ignore
Favorite historical counterfactual? 73stellarexplorer, April 20ignore
Valuable links/lists from the Old group 17Garp83, April 19ignore
Hitler's Co-Conspirators 3stellarexplorer, April 17ignore
Recommended Books 12marieke54, April 17ignore
It all looks inevitable in retrospect: an offering 47yaakov, April 15ignore
What if? / Would we have been better off if...... 70Feicht, April 9ignore
How clearly can we trace the modern world to the ancient past? 25geneg, April 9ignore
A metaphor for history 6Aelith, April 5ignore
Why I read history 49stellarexplorer, April 3ignore
Corn and Teosinte and other plants in history 15Garp83, March 30ignore
Howcome "specialist writing" has to be so boring that you want to kill yourself (or the author) whil 23Garp83, March 30ignore
What we're reading now 234wildbill, Saturday 2:33pm stop ignoring
Big History 48kokipy, Tuesday 4:47pm stop ignoring
Russian California 7snifty, Monday 2:40am stop ignoring
The Official "I Spend Too Much Money On Books" Thread 271ElenaGwynne, September 30 stop ignoring
Misc Thread 411staffordcastle, August 17 stop ignoring
John Lennon: Imagine there's no countries 99stellarexplorer, July 8 stop ignoring
History Books That Had the Most Impact on Me 39Doug1943, June 18 stop ignoring
Books left unfinished... 137wildbill, June 8 stop ignoring
Big Picture Library Suggestions 33Essa, May 29 stop ignoring
Tudors 99JulianneArdianLee, May 27 stop ignoring
Historians Who Had the Most Impact on Me 25HarmlessTed, May 19 stop ignoring
First Big History historian(s) 7Essa, May 1 stop ignoring
Big Picture books 2ejj1955, April 1 stop ignoring

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