This was a great book to listen to. It brought up a lot of history that I was not familiar with. One thing that made me laugh was the mispronunciation of the town of Haverhill, MA, in the story of Hannah Dustin. The reader pronounced it as "Hay-ver-hill", but it is really pronounced "Hay-vril...
This book covers American history from 1800 through 1850. it delves into six people, some famous, and some little known, who influenced their time. Much of this is not pretty being from the show the warts school of history, nonetheless, there is excellent research, and startling revelations. Di...
I really enjoy Kenneth C Davis' books. Since I write a blog and am working on my next manuscript, I bought this for a little inspiration and fun reading. I didn't get much out of it. The bios of the authors were short and bland. The follow up questions were pretty easy. If I leaned anything, I wo...
I listened to this audio because I thought that it would be a good one for my boyfriend and I try listen to together on a long car trip, since in college he studied ancient Greece and Rome. He, however didn't like it. I will agree with him that the Introduction was overly long and explained thing...
The real problem with “Don’t Know Much About History” is that it prescribes to the Modern School of History, namely: anything white males did in the last 3,000 years is criminal, all of white men’s successes are on the backs of other people, and white men are very lucky. This is not to say DKMAH...
After reading this I know (wait for it...wait for it) much more about the Bible. Davis manages to touch on every book of the Bible and gives the appropriate context and meaning including potential authorship. I had no idea the vast time periods that separated not just different books of the Bib...