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Damn_Underscore
05/21/18 8:02:55 PM
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on youtube you can find the history of just about anything, even stuff you wouldn't be able to find in books like detailed history of gaming and internet culture.
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Vicious_Dios
05/21/18 8:04:43 PM
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YouTube can't pass love or 'charge-up' notes across the classroom. LOL
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masticatingman
05/21/18 8:07:52 PM
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I mean, Ive browsed plenty of history minded YouTubers for fun and youre probably better off reading AP US/European History textbooks by and large.

There are YouTubers I like though who give solid condensed histories or who do cover oddball moments or historical eras, youre not wrong (well, for people who dont pay attention in class or have horrible teachers).
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Alisa
05/21/18 8:12:08 PM
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Wikipedia is better than YT :)
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Damn_Underscore
05/21/18 8:13:30 PM
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Alisa posted...
Wikipedia is better than YT :)


That's fair. I sort of disagree because Wikipedia doesn't have some of the esoteric history that YT does.

It's funny though that after Wikipedia became big, basically every school and teacher banned it from being used as a source.
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Verdekal
05/21/18 8:15:21 PM
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Try reading books.
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billcom6
05/21/18 8:16:29 PM
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As a social studies teacher I just want to say that there really aren't that many great YouTube videos about a lot of important historical events. Trust me, I have looked.
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FreshSushi
05/21/18 8:17:41 PM
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I think this is true even at a university level, though at that level you're really learning how to think like a historian than you are actual history

but that's the information age for you

not talking about youtube alone but online in general

still nothing beats books (you might not know this, but all those history channels get their stuff from overpriced uni text books)
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Sativa_Rose
05/21/18 8:20:09 PM
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FreshSushi posted...
I think this is true even at a university level, though at that level you're really learning how to think like a historian than you are actual history


I don't. Youtube has some good stuff but once you really want to study a subject in depth, you really do need to resort to books.
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NibeIungsnarf
05/21/18 8:20:57 PM
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Goats posted...
Crash Course World History and Extra Credits are both awesome channels for learning about history, but I don't think they'd be a good substitute for school.

I read ExtraCredits deletes comments from historians telling them they're wrong.
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FreshSushi
05/21/18 8:21:28 PM
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crash course and extra credits history are about as bare bones as it gets

extra credits is pretty shit tbh
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