{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Home Fires","title":"\"What History Are You Reading?\"","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/4f576243\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4373,"description":"In this episode, Tilly and Abigail discuss favorite history reads from the past year or so. Are there any enduring principles for reading history, when every historian works under some kind of bias? How do you read history with virtue and pull as much wisdom and application from it as possible? How do you judge whether an author is taking a legitimate approach to history? Is there a difference between bias and subjectivity? (Answer: yes.) What are some of the most pleasant ways of absorbing history?\nBOOKS REFERENCED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY\nDavid McCullough\nJohn Adams\n1776\nThe Pioneers\nThe Wright Brothers\nMornings on Horseback\nBooks About Historical Method\nHistories and Fallacies — Carl Trueman\nLying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial — Richard J. Evans\nExcellent book about the trial of a Holocaust denier, with a very detailed, point-by-point demonstration of his illegitimate historical methods.\nEarly American History\nOf Plymouth Plantation — William Bradford\nA Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America — James Horn\nThe Origin and Principles of the American Revolution, Compared with the Origin and Principles of the French Revolution — translated by John Quincy Adams\nGive Me Liberty: A Novel of Patrick Henry — Noel B. Gerson\nAmerican Sphinx — Joseph Ellis\nFounding Brothers — Joseph Ellis\nCivil War Era History\nThe Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War — Stephen Puleo\nApostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War — Charles Dew\nLincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural — Ronald C. White Jr.\nWWII / Nazi History\nThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich — William L. Shirer\nOrdinary Men — Christopher Browning\nHitler's Furies — Wendy Lower\nHistory Through Hobby\nThe Oxford Book of Humorous Prose — Frank Muir\nREAD MORE THAN ONE PERSPECTIVE\nTake care to read at least two views on a person or era. For instance, if you read:\nHitler, Churchill, and the Unnecessary War — Patrick J....","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AMuZG4iUYUt6yypHOYyQVbAY4NM64arnbdZO0GvgzLg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZDE5/N2YwNTNmY2UwYjBm/OGUzMGI2OTkzZDNk/NTg0MC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}