{"id":23992,"date":"2023-10-23T10:28:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T14:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=23992"},"modified":"2023-10-23T18:45:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T22:45:11","slug":"i-am-really-bad-at-history-and-find-many-history-books-challenging-to-read-do-you-have-any-book-recommendations-for-world-history-that-are-easy-to-understand-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/10\/23\/i-am-really-bad-at-history-and-find-many-history-books-challenging-to-read-do-you-have-any-book-recommendations-for-world-history-that-are-easy-to-understand-read\/","title":{"rendered":"I am really bad at history and find many history books challenging to read. Do you have any book recommendations for world history that are easy to understand\/read?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/aw10232023-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/aw10232023-14.jpg\" alt=\"I am really bad at history and find many history books challenging to read. Do you have any book recommendations for world history that are easy to understand\/read?\" class=\"wp-image-23991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/aw10232023-14.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/aw10232023-14-300x291.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I am really bad at history and find many history books challenging to read. Do you have any book recommendations for world history that are easy to understand\/read?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have lots of history major helpers, so lots of possible suggestions. 1) It&#8217;s probably not you, it&#8217;s the author. It&#8217;s OK to shop for another historian on the same topic until you get one that makes more sense. 2) Lots of people who don&#8217;t like history love biographies, and a good biography of an important person will teach you a lot of history. 3) Check out the Cartoon History of the Universe on the shelf to my left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have lots of history major helpers, so lots of possible suggestions. 1) It&#8217;s probably not you, it&#8217;s the author. It&#8217;s OK to shop for another historian on the same topic until you get one that makes more sense. 2) Lots of people who don&#8217;t like history love biographies, and a good biography of an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2023\/10\/23\/i-am-really-bad-at-history-and-find-many-history-books-challenging-to-read-do-you-have-any-book-recommendations-for-world-history-that-are-easy-to-understand-read\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I am really bad at history and find many history books challenging to read. Do you have any book recommendations for world history that are easy to understand\/read?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24022,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23992\/revisions\/24022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}