History of the American PeoplePaul Johnson
History of the American People
by Paul Johnson · first published 1999
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…the dissenters moving somewhere else and settling that new empty space. Which is one reason why I think space exploration is important; there's plenty of room for multiple viewpoints out there. [0] 'A History of the American People', Paul Johnson
on “Power in the Age of the Feudal Internet” ↗In US history (see, e.g. 'A History of the American People', Johnson), environmental, economic, and social problems were often solved by moving in to new territory. If you can think of the Moon as the Eighth continent, it may well be how we solve our present,…
on “Gene Cernan has died” ↗One of the things that struck me in reading 'A History of the American People' by Paul Johnson was how often conflicts - resource, political, religious - were 'resolved' by one of the groups move into a lonely, uninhabited region, where they could arrange things to their liking.…
on “For Hackers, Anonymity Was Once Critical. That’s Changing” ↗I took someone's suggestion to read a more orthodox US history 'A History of the American People', Paul Johnson, before diving in to the Zinn book.
on “The Lost Art of Research as Leisure” ↗…research papers, several textbooks, lots of documentation, many hundreds of Wikipedia articles, and the following books (not including ones I started but didn't finish): - The Tempest (Shakespeare) - A History of the American People (Paul Johnson) - The Book of Dust (Phillip Pullman) - The Secret Commonwealth (Phillip Pullman) - Valuable Humans in Transit (qntm) - Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) - Sunrise on the Reaping (Suzanne…
on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?” ↗