Are there any good open access journals for modern European History in English, German, or French (roughly in that order of preference)? I can think of one on legal history and I just found out about one for medieval history (albeit, clearly that isn't modern), but are there others that anyone would recommend?

Ancient Greece historians (/u/Daeres , /u/RainyResident ?) here might know about this, but I discovered the Collection of Greek Cultural Norms website after listening to the courses of Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge at the Collège de France that might interest those who do not know about it yet.

Hello historians!

I am very interested in late Roman Empire and early Christian Church history. I would like to read books about this period. What would you recommend?

I enjoyed Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" but I'm not certain how much stock to put into it due to its age. I would definitely read more books in this style. I am not closed off to any particular subtopic; sometimes you don't know what you don't know, and I don't know what has been studied, to what extent, and whether I'd enjoy reading about it, so I want to keep my options very open. One thing is that I really enjoy attention to detail and minutia, so I don't mind reading excessively long magna opera and getting lost in the world.

I can read in either French (my mother tongue) and obviously English.

There is so much I want to read about, but I guess I'll start with these two large subjects.

Thank you very much for whatever help you can give me!

Hi there! Can anyone reccomend books dealing with alternate or untold sides of history? Not totally how to describe what I'm looking for, I recently started reading Gavin Menzies's 1421 and then found out it was full of circumstantial bs but it made me realize I don't actually know a lot about Chinese history beyond the basics. So I guess I'm looking to learn about parts of history that ate generally glossed over in favor of focusing on European accomplishments haha. Sorry if this is vague but any reccomendations are welcome! :)

I was recently given Killing the Rising Sun, and through my own research, learned that the whole series is iffy on accuracy and bias— is there any value to reading this book at all, or should I just put it aside and look for a better source?

I'm looking to read through the Old Testament as inspiration for fiction as well as to try get some kind of a grasp on the social and mythological landscape of the time. I want to avoid as much modern baggage as possible, and I am worried that the most popular translations could be religiously rather than historically motivated, and therefore make changes to make the text more commensurate with the developed religion. I would also like to avoid major stylistic changes to modernize the writing style.

Does anybody know of a good historical translation of the Old Testament? Availability in electronic format would be a huge plus. Or maybe my fears are overblown and pretty much any translation will do?

I'm looking to read through the Old Testament as inspiration for fiction as well as to try get some kind of a grasp on the social and mythological landscape of the time. I want to avoid as much modern baggage as possible, and I am worried that the most popular translations could be religiously rather than historically motivated, and therefore make changes to make the text more commensurate with the developed religion. I would also like to avoid major stylistic changes to modernize the writing style.

Does anybody know of a good historical translation of the Old Testament? Availability in electronic format would be a huge plus. Or maybe my fears are overblown and pretty much any translation will do?