I want to learn more about History, where should I start?

Start at the museum. Take a stroll around and check out the exhibits. See what attracts your interest and notice what you’d like to know more about. Once you know this, you can stop at the library on the way home and pick up a few books on the time period that interested you.

You could also try reading historical novels. Some of them are incredibly accurate and the attention to detail is quite amazing and they’re easy to read, so learning stuff is not a chore.

For historical novels on Africa and Ancient Egypt, you can’t go past Wilbur Smith, but do check, because some of his novels are set in recent times. His historical novels should be read in order, because the stories follow on from each other in some cases.

Colleen McCullough wrote some wonderful historical novels on Ancient Rome. There were at least three in a series, (read them in order). “The First Man in Rome ” was one, also “The Grass Crown” and “Caesar’s Women”.

Edward Rutherfurd wrote several historical novels about early Britain, “Sarum” and “London” and one about Russia, “Russki”.

Jean Auel wrote some brilliant novels based on early humans. “The Clan of the Cave Bear” is the first in the series.

Hope this helps and good luck!

Think about what parts of history interest you the most. Ancient Greece? The Civil Rights movement? The American Revolution? Whatever it is, decide to become an expert in that area. Go to your library and look it up. Check out a book at a time and build your knowledge. There are always a bunch of really good DVDs at my library too, so maybe you could check some of those out as well.

Hit up the museums around you. Even the art museum has lots of historical artifacts! I went to the Museum of Art in St. Louis a few months back and was absolutely fascinated that they had mummies, Olmec, Mayan, and Aztec artifacts, and knights’ swords/lances/mail (not “chain mail”).

Have fun! 🙂

The most pleasure for me after reading the ancient, contemporary historians, such as Eesubus is Will Durant’s 11 volume set called “History of Civilization”, that way you won’t have to read the French, German, Latin, Greek originals. And try “A Distant Mirror” by Barbara Tuchman. All of that at the library. American history is cool, but overly glorified.

there are some great programs from PBS and BBC Video on ancient history.

The Spartans, The Roman Empire in the 1st Century, In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great, The Greeks, The Egyptians, The Vikings, China.

Do you live near any kind of history museums? or a city with a rich historical value? Like DC, Philadelphia, Williamsburg, Boston…

also watch the history channel. they do a lot of documentaries about bits and pieces of history, watch those and see which bits seem most interesting to you and then go study them

Yes, start with the beginning, Creation Myths of various cultures.

just go to the lirbary and research whatever field of history you like best, i love world history

start by going to Library

COLLEGE! DUHHH BRO!