She is 22 and loves learning about the history she was not taught in school. She blows me away all the time with the things she knows and is intrested in (She's huge into the Titanic for some reason) Anyways, she came to me and asked what books she could read. I told her OLD ONES. Then she asked some things about the Holocaust. I asked what she learned in school, she said they never covered it in history class. Should I be scouring ebay or other second hand sites? Or is there a place i can buy old, retired textbooks? Of course all book recommendations are welcome. Maybe a textbook is not the most thrilling read. Thanks for any suggestions.
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Old encyclopedias. I have two sets from the early 1900s. They are amazing. I found them at a used books store.
1949 Encyclopedia Americana set may be the last with bits of old knowledge. WW2 is much different than generally reported (modern day) in this text. Pre 1909 are better. After creation of FedRes in 1913 there were “unlimited dollars” to buy up all the encyclopedia companies and payoff all the writers to omit certain info. It took them about 40 years to modify ALL the history and knowledge to their “globalist agenda”.
The original 1771 Encyclopedia Britannica for you u/Nitrojunkie72
https://drive.filen.io/f/68d86f9b-7136-4dfa-a65e-6dfc97d89b24#EH11OC1PDd8wAWbQS5vzTgoEfgtlUASM
Thank you. This is real treasure.
interesting - glad I have pre-1916 ones
^ This u/Nitrojunkie72/.
Like Raritan, I have an encyclopedia series from the early 1900s. I'm in my mid 40s, but my parents were gifted this series from their parents (members of the greatest generation).
Another way to obtain such encyclopedia series is thru estate sales. Where I live, estate sales happen A LOT. You can purchase these "antique-type" items directly from the homes of those who've recently passed, typically folks who would have such a collection of great sources of the "OLD ONES" that you're referring to.
Aren't they wonderful. The writing is excellent. The coverage of topics can be exhaustive. I love these books! Estate sales would be a good place to shop.
Sure are! Level of detail is phenomenal and 0% spin for political purposes like our modern learning material/media.
Agree, one of my favorite things to do as a child was to read the encyclopedia. We had World Book at home. My Poppee though had Encyclopedia Brittanica which was much better! Wish I could remember the names of my history books from grade school in the 1960s. They were amazing!! The best was our World History book.
You need to do pre 1900 before Woodrow Wilson infected them
You can order books from the actual 1800's on ShopGoodWill(dot)com. I've ordered and read quite a few. I think you can even buy them in bulk.
I can say that the history contained in those books is vastly different than the Addison Wesley / Houghton-Mifflin / Macmillan propaganda that is shilled in our schools. Most notably the Civil War.
Some of them don't even have titles. They also add quite the character to a book shelf.
Such a good resource, thank you!
As a matter of fact, I just popped in to check out the website and noticed one of their feature items is the Code of Laws for the Kalamazoo Light Guard. Paperback 1881.
https://shopgoodwill.com/item/208338545
What a delightful history!
Amended on my birthday as well! Maybe it's a sign haha
Woodrow Wilson is the biggest culprit
Estate sales. Old people still have their 'old' books.
I feel that a reset happened in the 1800s and so any books written after then may seem old, but are really masonic re-writings of history. I am personally more interested in things written in the 1700s of which there are fewer and less in English. However, I signed up to www.forgottenbooks.com which is an excellent source of scanned pdfs of many old books. They don't have an easy search facility using dates, but you will find many from the time period 1800s on. You pay a sub and can access all their library, which makes it good value unless you are after paper versions only.
I found this too, I've been disappointed even with my old encyclopedias, even the 1929 Britannica.
Woodrow Wilson infected history books after 1900.
I'm interested to know more about that. What did he do?
Woodrow Wilson, wrote a series of history books that significantly influenced educational curricula in the early 20th century. His works, particularly A History of the American People, became widely adopted in schools across the country. Unfortunately, Wilson's history books reflected his own racially biased views and presented a distorted version of American history that favored Southern perspectives.
These books downplayed or omitted significant aspects of Northern history and the contributions of African Americans, reinforcing a narrative that justified and perpetuated racial inequalities. The perspective Wilson promoted aligned with the Lost Cause ideology, which sought to romanticize the Confederate cause and downplay the brutal realities of slavery.
Wilson’s racially charged views extended beyond his writing. His presidency was marked by the segregation of federal agencies and discriminatory policies that had lasting negative effects on African Americans. His approval of the film The Birth of a Nation — a film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan and depicted African Americans in a derogatory light — further illustrated his problematic stance on race.
It's worth noting that Wilson's participation in the White House screening of The Birth of a Nation and his promotion of his racially biased historical perspectives significantly influenced public perceptions of race and history during his era. His legacy, particularly regarding race, remains deeply controversial due to these actions.
Thank you, that is helpful. So he was one of the Ds fostering corrupt elitism, disunity and racism, which would later be blamed on Rs.
Yes.
thanks for the reminder, I need to look at that website. I also like archive.org and gutenberg.org. and I agree, books before 1800s are better🐸
I second this as a recommendation. They also print books from time to time.
Also WOB.com (world of books), they sell old second hand books for a reasonable price.
I have about 200 uncommon old books on many topics including history in PDF format that I found for free online. Most have come from The Internet Archive.
Someday I'll make a list with links. (No time right now) .
Here's what I do. I go on eBay and search old books. "French Revolution" "Politics" "Khmer Rouge" "Bolshevism" etc. Just random words related to my interests. If something looks interesting I Google (yeah, yeah, I know) the title of the book followed by "free PDF". I would say about 80 percent of the time it can be found.
To start I highly recommend the book "Under the Sign of the Scorpion".
Great advice for those on a budget.
Nice tip fren.
My wife recently went to a rather large used bookstore, and she was amazed at all the old text books and history books available. See if you can find one in you city to browse. If not, you can go on line and check out 'old used books' and you should find a good selection. Sometimes the public library has old text and history books for checking out. Our library had a recent book sale and sold many of the old history books.
The Ruling Elite three book series by Deanna Spingola holds a tremendous amount of US and world history never taught in schools.
They are available in soft cover, on kindle and may be on line for free via the internet archive site.
I have not heard of this series before but what an excellent recommendation.
The first two are on the Internet Archive.
Here's part 1
Here's part 2
Here's part 3
Awesome. Thank you!!
https://openlibrary.org/collections/banned-books
https://z-lib.gs/s/history?yearFrom=1800&yearTo=1980
https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en
Travel to the old small towns near where you live and go to the main street. You will find books of all kinds in the various shops that line the streets of small town america. These are the places that I've found my dearest treasures.
Tell her to use archive.org and read old books written by historians.
I've been using it since I was like 12 years old and reading has become my main hobby. I'm younger than her but people say I'm like talking to a retired old man lol.
That's awsome. You are our future
Here's a complete set of a 19th century encyclopedia https://archive.org/details/cyclopedia-of-universal-history-ridpath it's free to download but you can likely find hard copies of the volumes but need to complete the set
*also- CTRL + F works in it even though it's page scanned (:
This is the way. Searches on https://yandex.com usually lead to https://archive.org . Once you find the name, edition, author of what you may want to buy, then go to http://ebay.com to see if can find it listed from one of many thrift stores or private sellers.
If it is very old US book, especially related to the Constitution or State Laws you can reprints from this outfit in India that is operating outside of all Deep State censorship jurisdictions (apparently): https://www.abebooks.com/books/rarebooks/
It is critical to buy physical copies of important books and keep them safe (fireproof bags or safes). Also keep offline copies of digitized books protected on hard drives in Faraday bags.
Deep State/globalists are trying to get everything digitized, destroy all physical copies, and then just pull the plug or put up censorship wall to make them disappear. It is a modern version of Library of Alexandria (public) being torched after the Vatican pilfers all the critical historical texts and hides them in the Vatican Library (special access only).
I read the newspapers at this Library of Congress archive site.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
The Beta version is easier to read but a little buggy still.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/about-this-collection/
There are so many digital resources there, even tho it is the government. Great for researching your family, if you have a unique last name. Newspapers go back to the 1700s.
Antique shops usually have a good selection, in my area, at least.
ebay?
Absolutely. I have found some gems on eBay.
Here is a good website. However, Mike King, the author, does paint Napelalon and Hitler as good guys.
Who's that?
good guys
It depends on your perspective, and depends on what that perspective is based upon.
Personally, using the Life Liberty Pursuit of happiness litmus test, the types on the historical podium poised to be " good guys" arguably fail that test as bad as the bad guys ...
You would need to find pre-woodrow Wilson history books. So pre-1900. Also going online to the library of congress is fun.
Auctions...especially if you live in the Midwest.
I get old books at library sales, where they discard old books. Ask your libraries if they do this, and be there when they open. Old history books are often out there. Garage sales are sometimes good, too.