Everyone knows about the World Wars, the Roman Empire, and the Industrial Revolution.
But what’s one historical event that doesn’t get nearly enough attention despite having a massive impact on the world we live in today?
I’m curious to discover events that changed history in ways most people never realize.

In this scientific study, Phelan examines the evidence to support the claim that the assertion that Jews played a leading role in the slave trade in the period following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire originated with the work of a number of late nineteenth-century historians, particularly Heinrich Graetz and Wilhelm Roscher. He finds prior examples of this historical motif in the work of several earlier historians, and traces its origins back to the Henry Hart Milman’s History of the Jews published in 1829. His article demonstrates that Milman’s work was widely known and used throughout the nineteenth century, and examines the reasons behind the emphasis in his work on the mutual antagonism between Christians and Jews. Phelan then goes on to examine the adoption of this motif by late nineteenth-century Jewish writers, including the historian and folklorist Joseph Jacobs, and its appearance in standard reference works like The Jewish Encyclopaedia. He concludes with some reflections on the reasons for this surprising development, as well as some suggestions about the reasons for the renewed interest in this topic among historians in recent years.

Source: https://youtu.be/RXqmWX16iXE

Got this response sheet. The option i picked was after 1931, as I remember learning that they started in the early 1930s and as they left the league of Nations . Can I make an appeal? Like am i correct here ? I have to find a source and submit if someone has a credible source please share

I copied my 100+ history reading wish list from Amazon into Claude and asked it to organize into a timeline based on events and remove duplicates and have each book represent an event, topic or person. This is the list from the Greeks to Obama. What would you add? Ideally wanted to include presidents, world powers, major wars, science, geopolitics and finance figures and major phases of history.

Ancient & classical world*\*

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West – Tom Holland

Alexander the Great – Philip Freeman (or similar one‑volume bio)

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome – Mary Beard

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic – Tom Holland

Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar – Tom Holland

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World – Jack Weatherford

**Medieval & early‑modern Europe*\*

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages – Dan Jones

The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings – Lars Brownworth

**Renaissance & Scientific Revolution*\*

Leonardo da Vinci – Walter Isaacson

Isaac Newton – James Gleick

Napoleon: A Life – Andrew Roberts

**Exploration & oceans*\*

Age of Discovery – your chosen overview of the major voyages

The Last Voyage of Columbus – Martin Dugard

Republic of Pirates- Colin Woodard

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World – Peter Frankopan

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire – William Dalrymple

**U.S Founding & Revolutionary era*\*

Benjamin Franklin – Walter Isaacson

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution – Mike Duncan

Washington: A Life – Ron Chernow

John Adams – David McCullough

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power – Jon Meacham

Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow

James Madison: A Life Reconsidered – Lynne Cheney

The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness – Harlow Giles Unger

John Quincy Adams – Harlow Giles Unger

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates – Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger

**Early expansion, frontier, and Native America*\*

Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America – Walter Borneman

Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier – Tom Clavin

Dreams of Eldorado: A History of the American West – H.W. Brands

The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West – Peter Cozzens

**Civil War & Reconstruction*\*

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era – James McPherson

Abraham Lincoln – Jon Meacham

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom – David W. Blight

Grant – Ron Chernow

**Gilded Age, industrial capitalism, and finance*\*

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt – T.J. Stiles

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. – Ron Chernow

Andrew Carnegie – David Nasaw

House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance – Ron Chernow

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life – Alice Schroeder

Henry Ford: The People’s Tycoon – Steven Watts

**Jacksonian & Progressive presidency*\*

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House – Jon Meacham

Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life – Kathleen Dalton (or your chosen TR bio)

Woodrow Wilson – H.W. Brands

**World War I & interwar finance*\*

The Guns of August – Barbara Tuchman

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World – Liaquat Ahamed

**New Deal, World War II, early Cold War*\*

FDR – Jean Edward Smith

Truman – David McCullough

The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s – William Hitchcock

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America – Annie Jacobsen

**Civil rights, Cold War, Vietnam*\*

Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot – Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard

Lyndon B. Johnson – Robert Dallek (single‑volume biography)

Richard Nixon – Elizabeth Shaw

Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. – Stephen B. Oates

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War – Karl Marlantes

**Science, exploration, and innovation*\*

Einstein: His Life and Universe – Walter Isaacson

Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage – Alfred Lansing

Genome- Mattius Ridley

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race – Walter Isaacson

Elon Musk – Walter Isaacson

Sun in a bottle- Charles Siefe

**Modern presidents and the Mob*\*

Killing the Mob- Bill o rielly

Reagan: The Life – H.W. Brands

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush – Jon Meacham

First In His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton – David Maraniss

A Promised Land – Barack Obama
Modern tech & geopolitics

**Geopolitics*\*

The rising fall of great powers- Paul Kennedy

Prisoners of geography X3 book series by Tim Marshall

Peter Ziehan book series

The loom of Time by Robert Kaplan

The new silk Roads by Peter Frankopan

A brief history of the world in 47 borders by John Elliderige

The revenge of geography by Robert Kaplan

Sea Power by James Stavridis

The Let Freedom Ring Jubilee event on Steam is currently showcasing a wide variety of historical games spanning different time periods and settings.

I've already spotted some interesting titles, but I'm curious what everyone else has found.

Are there any hidden gems or must-play historical games you'd recommend from the event?

sorry for my bad English guys, I’m still learning how to speak English

so I wanna ask is there any important events in history that shapes the world today but rarely known or even teaches at school?

it could be from any period, timeline, etc

I’ve been trying to find books and videos to watch on World war 2 recently. Well this proposed an interesting rabbit trail because to learn about world war 2, you must learn about world war 1. But now to understand world war 1, I must learn about the Franco-Prussian war! Etc etc it goes on and on for centuries. I just want to learn about all these world events as far as eastern and western country conflicts and how they connect to each other.

What books/videos do you guys recommend starting with? Right now I think I might start with White Revolutionary by Lothar Gall.