Crash Course history

[bropasaran]

Hi, I don't know how many of you here know about John Green and the Crash Course Youtube channel, but their World History course is one of my favorite things on the internet, I think I watched every episode more then once. Anyways, it's a series of 42 videos lasting about 10 minutes or so, that cover the human history, delivered in a light-hearted way so as to be interesting for younger audiences. It's really great stuff, with nice jabs at eurocentrism, "great man history" and similar mainstream notions.

Here's the playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9

I would suggest going through all of it, in order.

Next they did a series on US history:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s

And four weeks ago they started a second series on World History:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNjasccl-WajpONGX3zoY4M

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

Ahhhhh woah they have an episode on diseases ^-^ that's neat. Ty

[Hermes]

I've only seen a couple of episodes, but I.. wasn't really that impressed. I don't really enjoy the zany off-the-walls shtick, and iunno. From what I've seen, it tends to be largely more entertainment focused than education focused, he glosses over quite a lot in favor of random sidebars and wacky stuff.

Which, I guess, if you like that sort of thing, is fine.

[BIXX]

I actually hate John Greene. I hate his fucking book- I think it was called looking for Alaska.

[bropasaran]

Ahhhhh woah they have an episode on diseases ^-^ that's neat. Ty
Yes, the the second series of World History does start with episodes dedicated to interesting topics. In the first series of World History there's an open letter to disease, I don't remember in which episode, and it is mentioned a fair number of times, to point out it's role in history.


I've only seen a couple of episodes, but I.. wasn't really that impressed. I don't really enjoy the zany off-the-walls shtick, and iunno. From what I've seen, it tends to be largely more entertainment focused than education focused, he glosses over quite a lot in favor of random sidebars and wacky stuff.

Which, I guess, if you like that sort of thing, is fine.
I guess the comedy is given weight because the series are for high school aged americans, but I kinda like the humour. I wouldn't really say it's more fun then education, I learned a lot of stuff in these series, althought that might be because I forgot a lot of stuff from my high school, it's more then a decade since I finished it..


I actually hate John Greene. I hate his fucking book- I think it was called looking for Alaska.
He's written multiple books, I don't like that young adult novel stuff, so avoided them, also I glossed a few episodes of his Literature series, but skipped that, too. But I love the history series, I also watch Mental Floss, some videos on VlogBrothers, and I also like his brother's SciShow.

[BIXX]

His history series (world, but it sounds like he did another?) was not terrible. I just can't separate him in my mind from that terrible book.

[bropasaran]

There's the World History, there's the US history series, and the second series of World History started.