As per title. Want to look for some good straight-up historical channels on the YouTube but I dunno where to start. One that acknowledges historical materialism would be a good start. One run by a comrade would be even better.
Just watched the vid on the Bronze Age collapse and I quite enjoyed it. A 300 year drought caused by/in concurrence with volcanic and seismic activity follwed by a massive invasion of entire peoples from the north? That's a lotta bad luck in one go.
The Roman History
animeseries is really good too:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9qlNBBoFG4&list=PLODnBH8kenOrjXjWy7Hhkz9uOpZ3NTAow
Ive been thinking of listening to it again. The extremely deep context is fucking wonderful. Context makes everything make sense, especially in understanding a wild conflict like the Russian Revolution.
The RussRev series is at something like 39 episodes and he's not even hit 1905 revolution yet lmao. He spends such a long time explaning marxism and Russian history, and socialism as a whole in the 19th century, you get a really good grasp of what lving in the political moment at the time was like for budding revolutionaries.
Yeah I like to imagine a future series on the Second American Revolution where they touch on the civil rights movement, the failure of the Weatherman and SLA, the state repression of the BPP, the rise of right wing militias in the 90s, Occupy, the Bernie campaigns and BLM as a contextual lead up to the eventual people's revolution.
I do quite like Hakim, though I guess I always saw that as more of a political essay channel.
This guy has excellent production values for such a small channel. Deffo deserves more views and subs.
This is a blog not a video channel but A collection of unmitigated pedantry. Materialist perspective, heavy emphasis on what life was like for the underclasses. Doesn't ever actually say he's a leftie, but I'm pretty sure he is.
Yeah I'm a big fan of Forgotten Weapons and InRange, love their stuff. I think Karl has slight anarchist/anti-auth tendencies from some of the videos he ran on historical vignettes and anti-corporate stuff, so that's cool.
I think he might be a Never Trumper civility republican. Idk he mentioned "donald trump hands" once.
donoteat01 is left-wing and centered on civil engineering, but his series "Franklin" about urban development over time in America is pretty tight
Overly Sarcastic Productions has some good histories. https://www.youtube.com/c/OverlySarcasticProductionsChannel
He's peak lib, honestly. In one of his episodes he ties in one of the conflicts to his personal life because his grandfather was some kind of colonial bureaucrat (I think in north Africa? I don't remember) that advocated for independence of the colony. Basically laid out that he is comfortable because his ancestors made their living subjugating colonized people for the Empire, but they were nice people who changed their mind so he can be proud of them lol.
I actually thought his coverage of the soviets was pretty okay, even in the rest of the time ghost series for the in between years i felt was good. The entire World War One project was just amazing, and it was nice to really have what made the war end become super apparent, which was the rise of communism ending not one, but two world wars.
Dunno about his politics, but Lindybeige is fun, like your chill British youtubr uncle who's a history teacher and into war reenactments.
Idk his politics, but Fall of Civilizations is very entertaining to listen to. If he does turn out bad, it's too late as I listened to every episode.
