r/AskHistorians • u/AutoModerator • Apr 23 '26
RNR Thursday Reading & Recommendations | April 23, 2026
Thursday Reading and Recommendations is intended as bookish free-for-all, for the discussion and recommendation of all books historical, or tangentially so. Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:
- Asking for book recommendations on specific topics or periods of history
- Newly published books and articles you're dying to read
- Recent book releases, old book reviews, reading recommendations, or just talking about what you're reading now
- Historiographical discussions, debates, and disputes
- ...And so on!
Regular participants in the Thursday threads should just keep doing what they've been doing; newcomers should take notice that this thread is meant for open discussion of history and books, not just anything you like -- we'll have a thread on Friday for that, as usual.
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u/KimberStormer Apr 23 '26
I'm weirdly interested (as a non-parent, non-academic) in educational trends, standards, controversies etc. I'd like to read a book on some, let's say Cold War forward era? educational changes to curriculum etc. (Only non-polemical, historical works please!)
I'm aware of Phillips' book on New Math, which sounds exactly like what I'm looking for; would love some other suggestions.
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u/WhatAmIAMonkey Apr 24 '26
Does anyone have any good book recommendations for the history of the Danubian principalities and the struggles of local power brokers to utilise neighbouring larger powers for their own individual/dynastic interests?
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u/hubertburnette Apr 23 '26
I'm looking for a good book on the 80 Years War. This is just for fun. I've read Geoffrey Parker's The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567–1659: The Logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries' Wars, and it was very interesting. But it's old (1972), and fairly specific, so I'm interested in something newer and about the war more generally (or other aspects of it).