History????

[Something completely different]

How often do users here post threads on history and does anyone here actualy have an interest in discussing history?


I have.

[CleanShavenJesus]

I have a large passion for US History. I considered many times becoming a history teacher.

[Minimalist]

History and archaeology are my favorite passions.

[Something completely different]

I have a large passion for US History. I considered many times becoming a history teacher.

I hardly dont know anything about US history, only basics and stuff I read in books about different subjects but were conected.

I know alot about fascism and communism, 19th century Europe and European colonialism. And some stuff on 20th century political developments.

What I really had a great deal of interest in is the history of pre colonial Africa. Which was filled with suffisticated civilisations with distinctive cultures even including powerfull empires such as in Etheopia. All of which is unfortunatly often forgotton since that kind of suffistication was denied to be of African descent during the 19th and 20th century.

Did you know that most African slaves were sold to British, Portugese, French and Spanish slave traders by Arab slave traders who captured them because Europeans were to scared to travel deep into Africa until the mid and late 19th century, and that there is racism against blacks in the regions were arab Africa meets black Africa?
Kind of Ironic when you think that some "back to the roots" radical civil rights movements in the US of the 1960s centered arround converting people to Islam like the nation of islam.

Converting to the religion of the same people who probably captured and sold your ancestors in the first place.

[Bad Writer]

Drich would love this! According to our latest discussion, he's of the mind that main reason every Empire has fallen is due to the destruction of the traditional family. Anyone who thinks otherwise or tries to show him why this thinking is fallacious is, according to him, not as well-versed in history as he thinks they should be. Needless to say, that man has been fun to talk to as of late.

[freedomfromforum]

How often do users here post threads on history and does anyone here actualy have an interest in discussing history?


I have.

I used to like history, but that's all in the past.

[CapnAwesome]

I have a degree in history. I'd love to see more topics on history in this forum but I'm too lazy to start them myself.

[bladevalant546]

I am a World War II buff myself, however history is one of my passions.

[Rev. Rye]

I'm currently on an American Civil War kick. And, looking on Amazon.de, I've found that the book I believe to be the definitive account of the conflict, James McPherson's "The Battle Cry of Freedom" is even available in German, under the title of Für die Freiheit sterben. Sadly, Shelby Foote's three-volume account isn't available in German, but, of course, since the author was from Mississippi, a state that only officially ratified the abolition of slavery six months ago, it does have a slight Pro-Confederate bias.

[Bad Writer]

I'm about to give a presentation about Old Baghdad for an Arabic intermediate course that I'm taking. This place was truly the center of the world until religion told the people there that most books should be burned.