Thursday Reading and Recommendations is intended as bookish free-for-all, for the discussion and recommendation of all books historical, or tangentially so. Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:
Regular participants in the Thursday threads should just keep doing what they've been doing; newcomers should take notice that this thread is meant for open discussion of history and books, not just anything you like -- we'll have a thread on Friday for that, as usual.
I'm not sure if it's allowed in this thread but I was looking for some genuinely good newer YouTube channels for history. I am subscribed to a lot of the well known ones like Yale University, Cynical Historian, Told in Stone, Tikhistory. These usually share the sources. Looking for similar ones. Thank you.
I'm still looking for a book that discusses the medieval romanticism of the 19th century/early 20th century. Things like art, architecture, furniture, and social norms.
I've read "The Great War and Medieval Memory" by Gobbel. An excellent book full of detail but it's focused primarily between 1914/18 & 1940. There's a marked evolution of that Medieval romanticism from very colorful, optimistic, knight-in-shining-armor to down right gothic ^(pun absolutely intended)
So I was hoping for something that detailed the rise & peak of medieval romanticism, not just the later stages of it.
Is there anything detailed written about the Kassite kings in Babylon? It seems like the answer is no, we just don't know all that much except for a select few mentioned in the Amarna letters maybe.
It's interesting to me that they were maybe the single longest ruling dynasty in Babylon but we know so little about them specifically.
Does anybody know of any books about Haudenosaunee adoption?