Things that got you interested in history

No judging allowed

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National Socialism

meh, just an autistic obsession taking root in my early adolescence

its my main passion now desu

Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States of America

Crusader Kings 2
No lie, im a fucking plebian

Total war games

Historical themed LEGO product lines. The Pirate sets got me interested in colonial and Napoleonic history.

I read a lot of these when I was a kid. I liked them, even if they were a tad Anglocentric at times. I didn't even know they wrote one about my country (Ireland) until I looked it up just now.

this desu

This.

/k/

The first age of empires when I was in preschool. Kept getting detentions for pretending I was a warrior on a chariot slaying unmounted plebs. Probably why ancient history has always been my biggest interest.

taking AP hstory classes for dat college credit and then getting a lot more interested in it than I initially thought I would be

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Unterganging in 2010-12 got me into Nazi history, and it spread from there

>The first age of empires when I was in preschool. Kept getting detentions for pretending I was a warrior on a chariot slaying unmounted plebs

I know that phase, it had to be a scythed chariot though

At 5 years old i came home from my first history class unable to shut the fuck up about the olden days.

It's just genetic for me.

WOLOLO

I got converted to black
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Christianity tbph
Also, the Europa Universalis games

my teacher :)

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Any stories? Description of him/her? Genuinely interested. It would be a break from the usual crap that gets posted here

Traveling as a kid. My dad encouraged it a lot by buying me books/artifacts as a kid.

>tfw I was a carthagoboo as a kid and my best friend was a romeboo

Somewhat same situation here. My older brother was an ancient Greekboo while I was a Romeboo

Well, I still am a Romeboo. My brother became more interested in planes and aviation stuff, while I remained a history sperg

I'm actually serious.

this

probably this

One of my first books was about Alexander the Great's conquests. History Channel and my friends made it worse, somehow.

Video games like Civilization, Europa Universalis 3 and rome total war. Then I got into war movies and after movies I started to question everything so I started reading a bunch of books. Now I listen to podcasts and occasionally read while at work and I play games every once in a while, history is pretty fucking sweet and I wish more people would give it a shot.

A funny bald guy. The way he explained everything was great and made you genuinely interested in what you were learning. He was always making jokes too (to make the retards pay attention). I even thought of becoming a history teacher because of him but then I became a literal autist who cant into public speaking. He taught us for a few months and then left the school. Lots of rumors started circulating about him (I went to an all-girls school, you can imagine what those rumors said) which I totally believe kek.

Anti Japanese propaganda posters

Wtf be my gf pls

Funny, AP History Class is probably the one singular entity that turned me off from history for a long time.

Similar story except he wasn't bald

It was those DK Eyewitness books

I history? My Dad.
In Roman History? Total War probably.

>wanting to date a chink-looking white spic

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You too huh? Fuck those books were awesome.

Civ revolution

Dear America, Dear Canada, and whatever the "boy" journals were called

Link?

I can see how that would happen tBh.

I was lucky that my history teachers were cool af. they do this trip every year in the summer where they take like 9 students out west (colorado/montana/etc) to some national parks to hike and learn about the areas and stuff. I went twice, my first year we went to Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park, the second year we went to Glacier. So I was already pretty good "friends" with the teachers before I even had them, so we got along well, and they did a lot in class to make it engaging.

so yeah, I can see how it could turn you off to history, but ig I just got extremely lucky by having some really cool history teachers

i went to the battlefields at Lexington and Concord and all the historical stuff in Boston when I was little, and saw archeological sites and all the cool stuff and I bought a souvenir reproduction pic related and over the years I spend a lot of time looking at it thinkint it was soo cool. I still have it too, like 28 years later.

Mah nigga

Legend of the Galactic Heroes

When I finished it I was crazy for more stories in a similar style and tone, and asked Veeky Forums for recommendations. I was told Honor Harrington, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and real history. I didn't care much for the last option, but then I started reading Norwich's The Popes, a subject that I knew practically nothing about except some stories about gay popes and popes that died having sex, and I wanted to ser just how true that really was, which led to discover that I didn't actually know anything at all, everything I thought about history was complete BS and the past was nothing like I imagined, which got me reading more and more on various subjects.

A Song of Ice and Fire books and learning how much of real history inspired them

Documentaries on the Apollo missions and American Revolution.

I know this is super standard and not what you are probobly looking for but: my sophomore history teacher. He was pretty boring to everyone else and people sometimes slept through his classes. To me he was an interesting guy amd made me want to be a teacher for some time. I think he's dead now.

You know, it usually goes that people like LOGH because they enjoy history and it's told in a similar format to a historical account. Never heard it happening the other way around, good for you.

Fine, I'll be that guy.

hahahahahaha, seriously? what a MORON. just kill yourself

My dad, he had a bachelors in history in Harvard, (even though he was in finance) and frequently told me stories about History (usually 20th century wars) in a very exaggerated and comedic way which basically triggered my Aspergers to have an obsessive craving for all things historical all the way into adulthood, currently working on my Masters in World History and planning on getting a PHD and becoming a Professor. Better than getting obsessed with Sonic. It also didn't hurt that my mother gave me Percy Jackson books instead of Harry Potter books which sparked an interest in Greek myth as well.

Paradox games, mostly Victoria 2 and CK2.

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The first thing I was obsessed with were dinosaurs. I used to memorize the names and recite them because I thought they sounded awesome, read every book about dinosaurs in the public library when I was real little. After that I sort of segued into history & geography which really go hand in hand. Had a 'illustrated history of the world' book I used to thumb through. Played AoE, Civilization & Rome: Total War too. Went as Hannibal Barca to a "living museum" presentation in middle school when everyone else was doing Lincoln, Florence Nightengale, Washington, Johnny Cash, Davy Crockett etc...Nobody knew who I was.

I also had a great Junior year highschool history teacher. He was a real old guy. So old that he walked with two canes because he had Polio as a child. He lectured like a college professor when other teachers did worksheets and reading out of the textbook. He knew everything by heart his lectures often went off on tangents as he got lost in talking about people places and things or answering questions. He radiated his passion for history and that was inspiring.

Literally the Goat

rome total war

My Grandfather basically.

>Experienced and survived WWII as a child laborer in the Philippines. Nips rounded him and his friends up to pave an airfield a la Colin Farrel in Empire of the Sun. When I was a child he told me of his life during the war.
>Became a machinist and was sent as part of the PHILCAG military advisory forces in Vietnam.
>By teens, told me of the kinks women had in his time.

holy shit are you me?


allosaurus is still my favorite dinosaur, even after all these. God bless Walking With Dinosaurs.

Unironically, the holocaust

Idk why I always have, started out by sperging out over mythology (Egyptian in particular) pretty much as soon as I learned to read, then grew from mythology to Egyptian History, and from that onto something else.
Atm i'm fascinated by 19thC France and the story of Paris in particular.

Tbh

this my dudes, it is the sole reason for my obsession with the vietnam war (which in turn made me interested in other wars which spiraled into my modern history interest).
Its also the reason why i love film so much

My niggers

Age of Empires without a shadow of a doubt. Both 1 and 2 and the following expansion packs. AOE3 was a disappointment and I never really played it.

Political Economy

All you LARPing faggots can kill yourselves.

Pity his latest is pretty much the worst book I've tried to read

Dynasty Boys

Please, all they ever do is to ramble about aliens, pawn shops and ice road truckers.

I didn't even know that I needed to have an interest in history. It seemed like a natural prerequisite of being a knowledgeable person. Same with literature.

Roblox WWII groups sadly.

Ancient Egyboo when I was like 8.

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History class, grandparents' stories on revolution then world wars, artifacts being dug out in our town when I was kid.

> Going through that horrible edgy teenage atheist phase
> Buy some Hitchens books
> Never read anything except the god stuff
> Few years later go through the books and read some of the essays he wrote about history

While I'm sure there were a bunch of different little things that were brewing underneath the surface that would have eventually lead me to my love of history. I've always pinpointed the exact moment it happened to when I found my brother's Axis and Allies board game in 5th grade:

>Bored one day on Christmas break
>Go downstairs and see my brother left some unopened WW2 board game he got as a gift on the kitchen counter
>Open up out of curiosity
>Filled with all kinds of tiny little army pieces that nerdy little 11yr old me would love playing with
>Find giant rule book filled with all kinds of extra information on WW2, what the pieces were supposed to be for each country, along with special optional rules in the back to mix the game up that all had real historical explanations for what they were (e.g. German fighter planes could move an extra territory because jet engines or something.)
>End up devouring almost every single book on WW2 I could get my hands on over the next few years
>Fall in love with learning history in general at that point
>Decided right around then that I'd really like to teach history some day

Just finished up my first year teaching incidentally.

Assassins Creed

me too m8
I pretty sure their most recent was zombie vs vampire or some dumb shit like that, it's sad

His short autobiography on Jefferson is really good.

Ancient Aliens lmao

I know a lot about Bronze Age Medditerranean and I'm a religious studies + anthropology major

Hate to admit it, but it's the truth.

Funny, I had to ask my principal to be placed in AP World History after they stuck me in the regular class for the first semester. I loved that course.

So much so that I thought it would be great to take AP US Hist & AP Euro in the same year. Not my greatest idea, but for some reason it didn't kill my interest in history.

>Rome Total War

Pretty much this, but I was 13 years old at the time so it's acceptable.

in the boat with this guy

guns

Pic (and it's pre MW3 sequels), BF1942, Medal of Honor, and the History Channel. Also, those Eyewitness Books on various things. the Soldier, WW1, WW2, Russia, and ACW ones were always my favorites.

Fuck yes to both of these.

Oh man, are you still here user?

I'm the one who recommended Honor Harrington and I want to know what you think.

Modern History class in school.

Probably the least interesting way to get into it.

History channel
Library
Total War

History channel was good in the 90's.

>not murdering him and burning down his house

Call of Duty: Finest Hour when I was little.

I remember taking a field trip to a history museum and the tour guide was surprised at how much I knew about WW2 era weapons. He even took me aside and we talked about the M1 Garand for a while. Pretty cool dude.

/pol/

Age of Empires II

I will judge you of i want.
You are pathetic.

I would play while I watch history documentaries.

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Childhood, playing with toy soldiers.

aoe1 demo
aok
aoe series
friends and family - wwii, tanks manufac etc
horrible histories
gogs
shit like that, culture, media, family, society

(aus /w military family)

GOT & ASOIAF

Fucking weird isn't it