Nice find. I’m more interested in science and tech but looks like lots of good stuff there. Happily, I saw the link for my interests. I’ve been trying to get through the last one but haven’t made it past lecture 5…yet. I do plan on finishing the course. https://www.openculture.com/biology_free_courses
Glad you found it useful. To me that is the entire point of some message board like this...you know, people being useful to each other. The online MIT stuff is great too...and if science and tech is your thing, I mean...hey, it's MIT!!! (also all free) https://ocw.mit.edu/
I've not done online courses, but have ordered stuff from The Great Courses. They present stuff in a college lecture format.
That's a real life-disappointment right there. How does one know one is being misled? Nothing makes me angrier than having my motivation to learn and deepen my knowledge misused. In those instances, my time has been worse that wasted.
Try to find the same time period or era discussed by different authors at different times sine the incident or issue. Different viewpoints at different times will help weed out the manipulations.
Bingo. Look at both sides and see which side is twisting facts, omitting facts, outright lying, etc. It takes time but if the issue is important, it’s worth digging to find the truth. Propaganda is rampant.
Are you sure? Because the Vikings were not European (at least, I don't think of Scandinavia as being in Europe.) Or are you thinking of someone else?
There have been relics found along the Missouri River that came from European explorers. I disremember the details. Look it up.
Well, if you focus on scholarly publications rather than "just any author" you can get work that is referenced from original sources and is not just blather made up by somebody with an agenda.
I have a friend in Nova Scotia who is of Viking descent. And, apparently, there are a lot of folks in Nova Scotia with Viking descent. I remember seeing a history show about the Vikings in North America. The show I saw speculated that the warfare tactics of the Vikings and the Native Americans were quite similar. So, whereas the Vikings kind of "blitzkrieg" tactics terrified and defeated the European settlements they invaded, the Native peoples were very familiar with that kind of warfare. And, being familiar with those tactics and knowing the land and resources better than the Vikings, they were able to dominate the Vikings in warfare and drive them out. I wish I remembered the title of the show, but I don't. Might have been The History Channel, not sure...