I didn't know about this event. However, my expertise is the Renaissance/Reformation so July-September's challenge is totally up my alley. I have some academic books out from the library about Sebastian Castellio. I'm a teacher too. Glad to have come across your channel! I'm going to read The Wager right after I finish Ritz and Escoffier tonight.

The King in Yellow is one of the greats. Saving the best for last. Thanks for the review.

I have American Dialogue. Happy to buddy read it if you get to it this summer. I need to figure out what else to read for this quarter. A lot going on and haven’t focused as much.

The verbal presentation was excellent. It was inciteful, thoughtful and was delivered in a pleasing tone. This controversy is over two hundred years old. The presenter did not look into how the book fits into the long-running controversy. The book did not fill a void. It was not placed into a vacuum. The scandal/controversy was dormant between 1876 and 1951. In 1953 Jefferson's Farm Book was printed for the first time, giving access to researchers. Virtually all of the primary evidence, that unraveled the secrets of Monticello, was recovered by W. Edward Farrison (1954), Pearl M. Graham (1961), and Fawn Brodie (1974). Brodie's book sold 350,000 copies. This book's author, Annette Goron-Reed, graduated from Harvard. Joseph Ellis graduated from Yale. No white male nor anyone who graduated from an Ivy League school ever recovered any significant evidence that went to help prove that Jefferson and Hemings maintained a sexual liaison. Over a dozen white male historians wrote books and articles denying that the liaison took place. In 1979 the novel Sally Hemings was published following Brodie's research; it sold over one million copies. The movie Jefferson in Paris was shown coast to coast in 1995. Gordon-Reed's first book was published in 1997, the same year historian Joseph Ellis started to call for DNA testing. Ellis and Gordon-Reed have never accepted some of the most basic and fundamental evidence recovered by Brodie. Ellis's 1997 book originally dismissed the reality of the liaison. Gordon-Reed's 1997 book did not embrace the reality of the liaison. Although Ellis and Gordon-Reed did later acknowledge the realty of the liaison, they claim that Sally Hemings first child died soon after birth. This is now a new controversy. First the history, then the DNA Newsman James Callender wrote an article for a Richmond newspaper, Sept. 1, 1802. He wrote T.J. had a concubine named Sally. Sally had a son named Tom - 12 years old. Callender said that she had more children, but Callender never named them. Historians like Annette Gordon-Reed (Pulitzer Prize) say that the baby died soon after being born. Think about it. The baby was born in 1790 right after they returned from France. If the baby died, then why was Callender writing about him in 1802? Somebody has a bogus story. Also, in 1802 a man named Thomas Gibbons wrote a letter to a politician saying that T.J. and Sally gave birth to Tom, Hariot, and Beverly. If the first child died why was Gibbons writing about him in 1802? The newspapers never named the other two kids, so Gibbons had his own source for information. The Callender account and the Gibbons account corroborate each other, making it very compelling evidence. The 1870 U S census for Jackson Co. OH indicates that Thomas Woodson was born in 1790 in Virginia. He owned a 382-acre farm in Ohio; he and his wife Jemima raised 11 children including Sarah Jane, who was the first black American to teach at a historically black college or university. The Woodson family has never lost its history. They are certain that Thomas Woodson was Sally Hemings first child. There is more evidence, but this ends here for brevity. Byron Woodson was one of the DNA donors. He is a first-hand witness, but more than that. Dr Eugene Foster, the testing organizer, promised the DNA donors that historians would be kept away from the DNA process. Historians had never handled the history honestly, so the donors wanted them kept away. The testing and laboratory work may have been perfect, but the reporting was hijacked by historian Joseph Ellis and others. Dr. Foster was distraught when he learned that he had lost control. After Woodson learned that things had gone astray, Foster answered Woodson's pointed questions honestly and never failed to answer the telephone. Foster did not know Ellis. (Byron Woodson, A President in the Family, 2001, 221-29) When Ellis and news outlets, like U. S. News and World Report were preparing a media dump, Foster thought the DNA results were still secret. Ellis appeared as the star of a massive multi-media media dump, reporting the reputed DNA results Nov. 1st and 2nd 1998. Ellis appeared on PBS News Hour Nov. 2, 1998, announcing "...the scientific evidence that we have now generated." (Gordon-Reed was interviewed on the same show.) Again, DNA donors had been promised that historians would be kept away from the process, knowing of their untrustworthy track record. Foster sent a letter objecting to the handling of the matter to Nature (magazine) and the Washington Post reported that Foster had issued a written objection. (Leef Smith, WAPO, 1/6/1999) Foster told Woodson, "I don't know," when his project was breached, thus Foster did not know if the Nature article, that he had co-authored, reported the actual results or not. Ellis was later embroiled in a scandal which forced him out of his teaching job for a year and caused him to admit that he is a habitual liar. (Cox, Journal of Higher Education, 7/13/2001) The Thomas Jefferson Foundation embraced a hijacked DNA report announced on national TV by a habitual liar. Is that best practices The movie Sally Hemings was broadcast in the year 2000. It was simultaneously viewed by 20 million Americans. It was not only a movie, but it was also a victory for truth over power. The movie showed Sally's first child growing from the baby Thomas Jefferson Hemings to the boy Tom to the man Thomas Woodson. The movie producers decided to ignore the DNA results in favor of Brodie's research. The producers bought rights to Brodie's book. This tug of war is 200 years old. Powerful institutions attempt to control how Americans think; what they think. The concentration of power is not limited to money and finance. Mark Twain wrote, "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." Research should mean consulting multiple sources (opposed to one another), not trusting concentrations of power, and thinking like a free person. How about a video that compares a history book that hides evidence with one that does not? How about a video about James Callender? He started this 200-year-old controversy saying that Jefferson had a concubine named Sally and that she had a son named Tom. Callender is an interesting subject for reasons, that are set apart from the complexities of Monticello.

Awesome picks ! The Beast sounds great 😊.My favorite history period so I decided to participate in the Readathon ✨ TBR 2 Baroque Period :"Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o Las trampas de la fe( Eng Sor Juana: Or, the Traps of Faith)" by Octavio Paz It's a biography of an extraordinary female poet and a brief bio of Shakespeare by Brandon Toporov & Joe Lee .The third one Is from the 1820's " In the Heart of the sea , the tragedy of the whaleship Essex " by Nathaniel Philbrick .New sub here greetings from Honduras 🇭🇳

Beast looks fun! (If fun is a word that can be applied to the topic 😅 but a fun type of book). Plus, the cover is amazing. The Wager has also been on my radar, I’ll definitely get to that one at some point 🙌🏼 Have a fun summer break Vin! 🥳

Bring on the Trek! I’ve got a nice pile going! Are we doing Redshirts?

Don’t know if the film improves on the book…. There are significant differences between the 2…especially the endings…film (2 endings)and book. Read it 3 times…. not easy reading- that is from a scholarship point of view--.I imagine PETER S BEAGLE having his characters interacting with , perhaps LEONA and ANN….

Beast looks cool. And I've seen the Wager a ton as well. Good luck on your committee planning. This is my smallest pile of possibilities for the quarters that I'm scrounging around trying to find some for later this week haha. Great vid Vin

Congratulations on being asked to join your town's committee! That's awesome. I've been wanting to read the wager for some time now and I look forward to your thoughts on that one. I mentioned in your last video about wanting to jump into Ron Chernow's Washington biography, and I went ahead and just jumped right in! So I'll be nose-deep in that one for the next month or two.

Beast sounds interesting. It makes me think of the French film Brotherhood of the Wolf which if I remember correctly is based on the events in Gevaudan. I still need to read The Wager.

I did pretty well with Q1 and Q2, but it looks like my next history read will be skipping to Q4 - I forgot about Historathon for a minute, and it’s a library book. Well, I’ve been reading Henry Adams _History of the United States_ all year so at least that coincides. Your options sound good.

I'm still trying to decide what to read for Q3. I think I will do the Young Queens, but I'd like to have a few more options as well.

Hey Vin! Great choices. I really liked The Wager. Grann is a great story teller. I have American Dialogue but I haven’t read it yet. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it. Thanks for the pile of books.

So much going on this summer and I love all the events and can’t resist joining in! Great pile of possibilities Vin. I’ve given up calling my lists TBRs because I am too fond of going off on a tangent and changing my mind about what to read 😊 Looking forward to Q3

Really interesting reviews of these two Vin. I didn’t get round to my Genghis Khan book this quarter. Maybe next year 😊

Oh, this is amazing. I am an avid fan of Star Trek, and for over a year, I've been reading TOS novels (which was my entry into Trek...with syndication. I was born in 1966, and when syndication became a thing, we watched Star Trek: TOS every weekday at dinnertime. I owned all 79 VHS tapes of the series, and watched them into my adulthood. SO, hearing about #BookTrek2024 is amazing. Without knowing about this readathon, I decided to start reading the Trek Lit Reading Flowchart on the first of June (coincidence? ), and started with TNG. It is now the end of June and I have read 17 novels in June (so far, it being June 28th...might be able to read one more). 1) Star Trek: TNG - Post-Nemesis: Death in WInter by Michael Jan Friedman 2) Star Trek: TNG - Post-Nemesis: Resisteance by J.M. Dillard (aka: Jeanne Kalfridis) 3) Star Trek: TNG - Post-Nemesis: Q & A by Keith R.A. DeCandido 4) Star Trek: TNG - Post-Nemesis: Before Dishonor by Peter David 5) Star Trek: TNG - Post-Nemesis: Greater Than the Sum by Christopher L. Bennett 6) Star Trek: Titan - Post-Nemesis: Taking Wing by Michael A. Martin & Andy Mangels 7) Star Trek: Titan - Post-Nemesis: The Red King by Andy Mangels & Michael A. Martin 8) Star Trek: TNG - Post-Nemesis: Articles of the Federation by Keith R.A. DeCandido 9) Star Trek: Titan - Post-Nemesis: Orion's Hounds by Christopher L. Bennett 10) Star Trek: Titan - Post-Nemesis: Sword of Damocles by Geoffrey Thorne 11) Star Trek: Destiny - Post-Nemesis: Gods of Night by David Mack 12) Star Trek: Destiny - Post-Nemesis: Mere Mortals by David Mack 13) Star Trek: Destiny - Post-Nemesis: Lost Souls by David Mack 14) Star Trek: Voyager - Post-Nemesis: Full Circle by Kirsten Beyer 15) Star Trek: Voyager - Post-Nemesis: Unworthy by Kirsten Beyer 16) Star Trek: Voyager - Post-Nemesis: Children of the Storm by Kirsten Beyer 17) Star Trek: Voyager - Post-Nemesis: The Eternal Tide by Kirsten Beyer SO...as you can see...I've been having fun in the Summer...with #BookTrek2024, not even knowing it existed. Thank you for this video. I will now be looking forward to your videos, and checking out the other content creators. Thanks for doing this. It is now going to be my destination for MORE Trek reading each Summer. Talk to you, later.

After reading about Gengis Khan and the destruction that was undertaken across Eastern Europe and Asia it made me think it left the West of Europe in the clear to flourish.

Very nice haul. Open Letter looks fascinating. I can’t believe it’s been that long.

I'm jumping on the crossover bandwagon with a book I found at the library called Jane Austen's England. I hope I can get some more read for Q3 but if not, I have several books already picked out for Q4.

The Travels of Marco Polo would be the first great influence that Genghis Khan had on the Western world. A story of a venetian who traveled and worked in Yuan China and Mongolia for 20 years, who apparently met with Kublai Khan, and witnessed the fruits of their empire. It's pretty wild that Europe had no idea that Mongolia was the biggest, richest, and most lavish empire in the world at the time. It had a very widespread publication. It certainly influenced missionaries and other travelers to the region, and it was published at the cusp of the humanist renaissance.

Quarter 3 is going to be fun for me. I've got three books lined within the time frame :)

I've always heard that Genghis Khan was an elusive figure. It sounds like multiple books are necessary if you want to have a well-rounded understanding of him. Of course we're at the mercy of what's available when it comes to historical documents. A historian once said, I forgot who exactly, that the further back in time a famous figure lived, the more myth and legend are heaped upon that person.

I just might use this as an excuse to finally jump into Ron Chernow's Washington: A Life. It's been sitting on my shelf for so long, but it's such a whopper of a book!

My favourite history period!! ❤

Great video Vin! I've known about that Genghis Khan book for quite sometime! I read the first chapter of it and was enjoying it. I might pick up IT by Stephen King one of these days.

Awesome about the Dead Zone, takes me up to 13/24 🤓 Thank you for the sweet compliment about buddy reading, enjoy your insights as well. Genghis Khan book sounds interesting. Great video, hope that cough clears up soon 😎

Yes I'll participate. I'm going to read "The Man who broke Napolean's Codes" (Mark Urban).

So exciting! I have at least six books lined up for crossovers with Jane Austen July, Tudor Tember and Victober, not to mention books on women in WWII! Yippee! : )

This is the quarter I'm definitely gonna struggle with finding titles the most

Oh my. (Yeah, I "heard" it in George Takei's voice too.) Guess I need to get choosing. Sometimes I'm convinced this semi-arbitrary Earth year time reckoning system slips away from me faster and faster. Maybe I'll start partioning time by galactic rotations instead. 🤔

I think I already commented on the other videos but here's one for the algorithm as well

Awesome

Some nice books, Vin. Seems a good thrift store, or charity shop as we call it.

They both sound like interesting books, especially the second one. Ancient fan fiction 🤭

Loved the buddy read, as always, and look forward to reading again for next year’s Maybe Midrash.

First book title reminded me of, "Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me", uttered by Kenneth Williams as Julius Caesar in Carry On Cleo (1964). Some great books there and great prices. Happy reading.

I just saw that Roman mystery book on Kindle the other night. The Didius Falco series by Lindsey Davis (from 1989 onwards) really showed how ancient Rome could be a prime setting for historical mysteries. Lately I've been seeing more mysteries set during a particular Roman era, as well as ancient Greece. There is even a series with Aristotle as the main solver of mysteries:)

Justin has talked about the “Life in” books by the Gies a lot, and I’ve looked them up. Those reproductions seemed icky to me. Justin has a 3-vol. set published by Folio Society which I am sure has better illustrations. I have coveted that but shied away because the price.

I started reading the bible about a year ago, and still working my way through it. I read a book or two, then put it down. I've been wanting to read Ehrman since I think his books will add depth. I've been reading Isaac Asimov's Guide to the Bible -- he offers great historical context.

Happy holidays. Great prices and interesting finds 👍

Nice Haul!

Nice video!

Day of Infamy is old but a gateway drug to Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War...

I've heard good things about Timothy Snyder, I really should pick something of his up. Cool haul. He also has On Freedom coming out soon I guess

I recently read History of Medieval Women buly the Gies. I need to reread the castle one you did. I've read the city and village one somewhat recently ish. Great vid

I grew up near a medieval castle so we had school trips and stuff to the castle which was great, I really like stuff about every day medieval life so that castle book sounds fun to me.

Great video. I picked up Life in a Medieval Castle back in the 70s. Loved that book as a kid.

Great video, as always. Hope you feel well soon. As an atheist, I also have been trying to find a philosophical system to adhere to. I find that science has helped a lot, specifically the study of evolution. You learn how all life is connected biologically, and you realize too how ancient the Earth is, how many species have lived and died during our planet's 4.5 billion year old lifespan. I've been hiking now for about 9 years, and whenever I'm out in the forest I feel a spiritual connection. Everything is alive, each a collection of trillions of atoms, living in an immense and complex universe. It's quite amazing!

That's a good discussion and description of the Poetic Edda. Glad you are feeling better.