MakingHistory

My "Reading Notes" on the third chapter of The Dawn of Everything, which is called "Unfreezing the Ice Age".

A quick look at some of the ways authors develop credibility with readers, based on a discussion in the Dawn of Everything Obsidian Book Club yesterday.

The discussion of the Enlightenment in the early chapters of Graeber and Wengrow's book reminded me of a book I read in grad school about the wide reading habits of early US citizens, called Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life. Here's my summary of the book.

Okay, so I'm going to do it! A book club to read and discuss the new Graeber and Wengrow book, *The Dawn of Everything*, and a shared Obsidian vault in which we can do this and also share ideas and techniques for note-taking and knowledge management. This will include not only the shared vault but weekly Zoom meetings, so at the end of the video there's a list of things I'd like to know about you to get started and send you the appropriate invitations. I'll begin building the vault this weekend and we'll commence next week. EVERYONE who wants to share their thoughts is welcome! Basic rules of civility apply, and I'd like this to be visible to the rest of the world, so our work can be useful to others. Share this with your friends and relatives! THANKS!!

The second half of Chapter Three, called "Essence and Peddlers".

I'm beginning the process of looking for instances of ideas in my Obsidian vault. In this video, I find a bunch of times I thought about the idea of Domains, wondering about the limitations of explanatory schemes. I find a few to begin my Note on this topic.

This is my reaction to Neil deGrasse Tyson getting history spectacularly wrong on Joe Rogan's show. The original clip is a couple of years old, but it is still being watched regularly and these are topics I care a bit about. So I thought I'd set the record straight.

This is the first half of the third chapter of my book, called "Essence and Peddlers".

I'd like to compare the ways World History survey courses cover history in different regions of the world, and also if possible how this changes over time. I've asked Open Education folks, Moodlers, and others -- now I'm asking my viewers for suggestions of the textbook titles they've used or are aware of in their regions. Thanks!!

My reaction to the wildly popular Bill Wurtz video that begins before the Big Bang and races to the present in just under 19 minutes (I'm reacting to the "clean" version). I add some points I think need emphasis. Lots of great stuff in here. I'm always interested in people who can be super effective talking about history to the public, so this was very enlightening.