How to Read A History of Mankind

A guide to navigating the contents of this Substack

When I started the Substack for the History of Mankind project in early 2022, the project already was over two decades old.

I came up with the idea of writing a long, detailed, single-author history of mankind in the late 90s, as something fun I might do when I was older and wiser, and I only began to make serious notes and compile stuff from my reading …