I played Assassins Creed way too young without my parents knowing and I now hope to start my MA in history next year. I agree with OP, this works. (based on my anecdotal experiences)

Of course, they're always the exception!

Playing through the historical campaigns in Age of Empires and Age of Empires II, without skipping introductions or cutscenes.

I'm not sure that's entirely accurate. The US was planning on invading the Home Islands. The firebombing campaign killed many more Japanese than did the A-bomb drops. And had not weakened Japanese resolve to fight to the last. The atomic bombs were meant primarily to show Japan that we would not NEED to give them a "glorious end" by a land invasion. Ancillary it was a sign to the USSR that we had a technological advantage. The USSR stole their Nuclaer program via espionage. They would've been years farther behind without these guys.

I love crash course history! I agree though, it can be hard to keep up with John Greene... unless you're the Mongols.

YouTube channel: Extra Credit History

I can't recommend it enough!

If you can find episodes of Hysteria from WBkids it’s a great cartoon from back in the day.

I have the show Histeria! To thank for presenting history in a way that started a lifelong passion for history. But obviously it was mostly wrong or heavily simplified and I know that now but it was all about getting the ball rolling for me I hope there's something similar out there today

Who was the kinkiest Roman Emperor- and why?

And something like 21 out of 22 tanks sunk on their way to the beach.

Had things gone as planned Omaha wouldn't have been nearly as bad as it was.

My son has always been very interested in various things. I used to read atronomy books to him when he was 2 and 3.

After that he could read well enough to read by himself (and his attention moved to Ninjago etc.).

One thing he always liked was books from Mauri Kunnas (he did books with dogs and cats as main characters, telling about vikings, pirates, Kalevala, all the good stuff). You could check if you find something similar.

They are stories tweaked to be suitable for kids (like in Kalevala Aino didn't commit suicide but chased after Väinämöinen etc.). Little humour etc.

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And of course plain old documentaries. Kids love that stuff, or my son loves. Or if a kid can read, give them books. Proper history books, there's always some well written ones.

Those are bloody awesome, and kids in school still watch them in Finland.

My son watched the human biology one when he was 4. It has everything from sex to diseases, you don't have to answer any questions by yourself after that.

It is a very neat series.

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EDIT. I have the history one on DVD even!

Make recipes off of Max Miller’s Tasting History. He includes history, it’s a fun group activity, nothing too offensive about it.

Honestly, though, a lot of kids aren’t built for nuance. That tends to come later. Most people who grew up with the idea of knights in shining armor, cowboys and Indians, or noble samurai had no problem adopting the reality that the knights, cowboys, and samurai were people too and therefore frequently the bad guys in the situation and that native Americans aren’t from India.

Ha, we might be the only two people that agree with each other in this thread. But yeah what percentage of Japanese soldiers were defeated by red army on the mainland of Asia? Way more than half.

And the fact that the soviets defeated the Japanese is something worth notice. The atomic bombs were just a demonstration of power that US aimed to scare the soviets. But under Stalin leadership the soviets developed atomic bombs in 1949.

Check out Khanacademy.org under Arts and Humanities. All sorts of history content. Seems to be focused on the US, but there is international stuff there as well. All free.

Oh I think the percentage is way higher than that. Practically all of the fighting capacity of the german nation was spent on the eastern front. And one hundred percent of the decisive actions occurred there. The Normandy landings were an irrelevant sideshow. Only important in determining who would rule in europe after the war.

Pretty much every historian who comments on Howard Zinn start by explaining that all history has an agenda, it's about interpretation of messy and patchy records of human thoughts and actions. Howard Zinn is very up front about his. He literally writes what the agenda is on the first two pages of his introduction.
Historians will point out disagreements they have with his interpretations and work, but will also say it's a very important perspective to have and it has largely been ignored or siloed off in academic specialties of labor history, indigenous history, or ethnic studies.

Most of the people I see bag on Zinn are newspaper pundits and not historians.

That said, A People's History of the US isn't an academic book, so historians don't spend a lot of time with it b/c it's not relevant to their work.

Probably the worst history book I have ever read. It's an agenda. Look up what historians think of Howard Zinn.

As a french I recommend this show !

They also lacked the required Panzer divisions if I’m right since Hitler decided to appease both Gert Avon Runstedt(?) and Rommel’s different demands for the exact location of the tanks

I didn't expect that

I think it has a big impact. Institutions are more important for good governance than they usually get credit for. These colonies set up extractive institutions, not institutions for widespread improvement. If you read about the Spanish bank when it was developed, it was basically entirely set up to hold money and then transfer it back to the crown, or to lend it to the crown. It wasn't set up to distribute capital and create liquidity to help the economy improve, especially in the colonies. There's been some good comparisons between Dutch, English, and Spanish banking and the impact on colonial development. You can find lots of papers like this: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/231550/1/49-2020-1-111-140.pdf

There was also the Banco de Isabel in the 1850s. But development economics has studied the issue quite a bit and it's worth spending a little time reading.

English Heritage has some nice bits and bobs on their Kids Rule page, they have some kid's content on their YouTube too. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/members-area/kids/

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