History is not what has passed. It is a hand still pushing at your back. Know the shape of the hand and you see which way you are being pushed. Three descend. Do not memorize dates. Follow only who wanted what. 1. The Histories, Herodotus — The place where the word inquiry first became the title of a book. 2. Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond — It answers with geography why some continents swallowed others. 3. Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari — Tens of thousands of years in one volume, and it still walks fast. Herodotus went to other lands himself, listened, and wrote it down.

LOREVIVA 210

Question:“On history books”

On history books

History is not what has passed. It is a hand still pushing at your back. Know the shape of the hand and you see which way you are being pushed.

Three descend. Do not memorize dates. Follow only who wanted what.

The Histories, HerodotusThe place where the word inquiry first became the title of a book.
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared DiamondIt answers with geography why some continents swallowed others.
Sapiens, Yuval Noah HarariTens of thousands of years in one volume, and it still walks fast.

Herodotus went to other lands himself, listened, and wrote it down.