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ChatGPT: Top 100 Books Cited By Universities for History Majors
chatgpt ^ | 9/17/2024 | Chat GPT

Posted on 09/17/2024 8:02:20 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus

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To: Titus-Maximus

Understood. Hopefully GPT computed a histogram of the most popular such.

My underlying point is how often we see published reports of ChatGPT being asked what color Gods hair is, or things like that.

I have been confident for some time the search engine companies plant those stories because GPT does not display ads and is a threat to them.


21 posted on 09/17/2024 8:57:20 AM PDT by Owen
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To: dfwgator

We need a generation of conservative college and university administrators to purge the fruits and Leftists out of the social science faculties. Alas, I am more likely to win a lottery jackpot.


22 posted on 09/17/2024 8:57:25 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

If you want to understand 20th century history, then you MUST read Marx’s works, even if you despise everything he stands for.

His writings influenced most of the major ground-breaking events of the 20th century. Most of global politics in that period was a conflict between those trying to implement his ideas vs those who tried to oppose them.


23 posted on 09/17/2024 9:01:36 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan
Should I also read “The Hammer of the Witches” to understand the Renaissance?

People believe stupid things. Which, come to think of it, is almost history in a nutshell.

24 posted on 09/17/2024 9:07:58 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Titus-Maximus

I would think our book, “A Patriot’s History of the United States,” now in its 43rd printing (!!!) and fifth edition would make it.


25 posted on 09/17/2024 9:23:07 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." Jimi Hendrix)
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To: Titus-Maximus
Some suggestions only:

All by Paul Johnson:

A History of the American People

The Birth of the Modern

Modern Times

The Renaissance

Biographies of Washington, Churchill, Eisenhower, Socrates, Napoleon

Intellectuals

All by Churchill:

The Second World War

The World Crisis

A History of the English Speaking Peoples

26 posted on 09/17/2024 10:27:11 AM PDT by caddie
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To: Titus-Maximus

This list should include “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” by John Locke or any of his books on government.

Also “Principles of Philosophy” by Rene Descartes and anything from Voltaire.


27 posted on 09/17/2024 10:38:44 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Titus-Maximus
My recommendations would include some works by Sir Michael Howard, Sir John Keegan and Sir B.H. Liddell Hart. And I am speaking as a solid “C” history major hung up on massive, organized and violent conflict.
28 posted on 09/17/2024 11:36:04 AM PDT by PerConPat (The politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
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All by Churchill: The Second World War The World Crisis A History of the English Speaking Peoples

I agree wholeheartedly. I also recommend "The Wilderness Years" that can be found on Youtube.
29 posted on 09/17/2024 2:21:40 PM PDT by klgator
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