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Topic	"history buffs" who only know about military history are the worst
PleaseClap 12/15/19 6:41:42 PM #39:	Southernfatman posted... What makes him and others "pop" history? What is pop history? This seems reminiscent to people hate guys like Niel Degrasse Tyson and Bill Nye. It sounds like gatekeeping stuff. It's like when metal dorks hate on people for liking Metallica or other more popular bands for being "basic" or "entry level". You can kinda look at it in through that lens, Im just going to copy what Wikipedia says. Popular history is a broad and somewhat ill-defined genre of historiography that takes a popular approach, aims at a wide readership, and usually emphasizes narrative, personality and vivid detail over scholarly analysis. Pop history is probably going to be written by people who arent historians or academics. They might not use the best sources or critically evaluate their sources, and they might not be informed about the historiography of the field that theyre writing about. its important to realize that some authors are more concerned with telling an engaging story as opposed to providing an in-depth analysis of the topic at hand. Pop history can be fun though, it doesnt have to be a terrible, awful thing that nobody should ever read --- she/her https://imgur.com/AmWcJjM <cite>PleaseClap posted [p:931632238] in "hist... [t:78257577]...</cite> <quote>Southernfatman posted...</cite> <quote> What makes him and others "pop" history? What is pop history? This seems reminiscent to people hate guys like Niel Degrasse Tyson and Bill Nye. It sounds like gatekeeping stuff. It's like when metal dorks hate on people for liking Metallica or other more popular bands for being "basic" or "entry level". </quote> You can kinda look at it in through that lens, Im just going to copy what Wikipedia says. Popular history is a broad and somewhat ill-defined genre of historiography that takes a popular approach, aims at a wide readership, and usually emphasizes narrative, personality and vivid detail over scholarly analysis. Pop history is probably going to be written by people who arent historians or academics. They might not use the best sources or critically evaluate their sources, and they might not be informed about the historiography of the field that theyre writing about. its important to realize that some authors are more concerned with telling an engaging story as opposed to providing an in-depth analysis of the topic at hand. Pop history can be fun though, it doesnt have to be a terrible, awful thing that nobody should ever read --- she/her https://imgur.com/AmWcJjM</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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