hi group! over the past while, I've started to do more and more reading more and more on what has been an otherwise dormant interest of mine: european history. wikipedia is, obviously, and excellent source of reading, but I often find that their articles have almost TOO much information, if that makes any sense. it's hard to get a good summarized write-up on a given topic. by the time i sort through the dozens of references in a given article, i usually end up on such a tangent that i sort of get lost trying to give perspective to the topic i was after in the first place.
i'll be honest, /r/askhistorians - im a little drunk right now, and so i really dont know if im getting my intention across clearly here, but im sure that someone here will pick up what im putting down...
p.s. - love this sub.
Going to sound a bit silly, but since you've presumably sobered up after 10 hours -- just go on down to your public library and ask for the librarian to pick you out a book on European history! If Wikipedia bogs you down with drunken click spirals so at the end of your exploratory on history you're somehow on Cpt. J. L. Picard's biography, books are nice and linear, no tangents. You go exactly where the author intends you to go and no where else, no distractions.
JSTOR, although it is costly. But you can find some very very specific things on there.