I’m a 21-year-old guy and since they unfortunately didn’t teach us about American history in school I wanna learn it all on my own from the beginning to the present.
I’m really looking forward to a deep dive to not only understand American history better but also to get a better grasp of the culture, people, economics, politics and social aspects that influenced America to become what it is now.
I was wondering what the best ways and resources are to do this. Maybe someone can recommend some good media resources. It doesn’t matter what it is, it could be books, videos, podcasts, documentaries, documents, articles, movies and so on.
I’m open for everything :)
As an Egyptian, well yes and no. Egyptian history tends to suffer from “and then nothing happened for a few hundred years” syndrome so at least until the Islamic conquest a high-level understanding shouldn’t take too much time. After the Islamic conquest you gotta deal with the monstrosity that is Arab Caliphate politics, which is… Uh… Yeah, and then you reach the Ottomans and again nothing happens for a few hundred years.
It’s kind of what happens when for most of your history you’re ruled by foreign empires; there’s less potential for things to really go off the rails compared to the shitstorm that is American politics where you gotta think in 4 year intervals rather than 100 year intervals.