and if you find what youre looking for/write us a letter and tell us what it is

I really envy White historians on social media who could talk about historical events that were insidiously racist with this aggravatingly chipper voice in their American/British accents. Like, I get being excited about learning about history, but it's as if they don't seem to realize that what they had just described was racist? For example:

I just cannot fathom how this lady could describe the Knightsbridge Japanese Village as an "amazing" place when it's nothing more than a glorified human zoo that existed in London. You should be glad it doesn't exist anymore?! And you had people in the comments going on about how this sounded like a nice idea?? No???

Here's more information about this Village and British media reception towards it at the time:

the dream state… -> historians -> triple dog dare pipeline has me in shambles btw

And historians will call them: bros in a psycocompetitive relationship that can be construed to be romantic but not explicit 

*defined here as: people that don’t have graduate or post-graduate degrees in history, but have nonetheless made full-time careers studying history.

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔥𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔶 𝔪𝔞𝔧𝔬𝔯/𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔥𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔞𝔫🏺🕯️📜

“hiSTORy iS WRitteN bY THe vicTORs¡”

Oh do fuck off with that Churchillian, pompous, small-minded, imperialist, triumphalist Great Man Theory bullshit!

That stopped being true after 1945 and you know it!

Get in the bin with that shite!

Besides I’m pretty sure that quote was actually about biased narratives.

Mind you, I’m not using it to justify revisionism or “lost cause” narratives! That shit can also get in the fucking bin! Starting yesterday.

Are there any historians who you make sure to get every book that they write no matter what the subject is and if so who?

Oh yeah, most definitely, there are a number of them. Just to name a few: Doris Kearns Goodwin; H.W. Brands; Jon Meacham; Rick Atkinson; Nathaniel Philbrick; Bob Woodward; Robert Caro; Robert Dallek; Rick Perlstein; Ron Chernow; Peter Baker; Fergus M. Bordewich; David I. Kertzer; David McCullough; Ben Macintyre; Edmund Morris; Erik Larson; David O. Stewart; James F. Simon; James Holland; Antony Beevor; Joseph J. Ellis; Christopher Hibbert; Douglas Brinkley; Lawrence Wright...the list goes on-and-on and I'm undoubtedly forgetting some important names, but I definitely have every book published by all of those authors (except for Beevor, who I'm missing a few titles from). Not only am I a book lover and book collector, but I'm kind of a completist, so it's often hard me to resist going out of my way to get everything by certain authors.

(And they aren't historians, but I also am a completist when it comes to Sam Shepard, John Steinbeck, Robert Greene, and Hunter S. Thompson.)

"Historians will say they were close friends."

But not these historians!

back to my roots

IMO the best historians are the ones who just think it's neat when people do stuff.

I fucking love historians. Just. Love them. They’re weird cowboy cryptids devoting their lives to the most obscure topics you can imagine