I’m a 21-year-old guy and since they unfortunately didn’t teach us about American history in school I wanna learn it all on my own from the beginning to the present.

I’m really looking forward to a deep dive to not only understand American history better but also to get a better grasp of the culture, people, economics, politics and social aspects that influenced America to become what it is now.

I was wondering what the best ways and resources are to do this. Maybe someone can recommend some good media resources. It doesn’t matter what it is, it could be books, videos, podcasts, documentaries, documents, articles, movies and so on.

I’m open for everything :)

  • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    12 hours ago

    Are we talking about America as in the people’s history of one or two entire continents, or as in the country of the United States?

    If it’s the latter, CrashCourse: US History can get you started with some solid basics of different time periods of significance. It treats the subject seriously, but doesn’t take itself overly serious, so it isn’t too dry as you get started.

    Since we’re a “new” country, so much of our history is documented and preserved that you can deep dive almost any moment of it, so we don’t have any real “dark ages” where there’s a lot of questions as to what happened or why.

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        12 hours ago

        My mistake there. I have all my “Ask_” communities together in one linked community, and this is a recent add to that.

        It still was important to differentiate if OP wanted to include more early non-European history, or just the colonization and governing of the American territory. Like if someone asked for the history of Germany, do they want from the Roman Empire or the unification of states into modern Germany.