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by burntsushi 973 days ago
I'm careful about who I get my history from. I hadn't heard about Kings and Generals before your comment, and their video library looked quite enticing. So I started looking into whether I could regard them as generally trustworthy. The first red flag was that I could find zero names of anyone involved in the project. Their web site[1] doesn't say anything at all about who is involved. That is a MAJOR red flag in my experience. If you can't put your name behind the history you're sharing, then something is probably wrong.

The second red flag is that I searched for "kings and generals" on the r/askhistorians subreddit. I found only a few reviews of it and they weren't great. r/askhistorians tends to be quite critical of popular or simplified history, a little too much for my taste, so I don't mean to give their reviews too much weight. But from what I could see, it was Not Good.

Mind you, these are red flags. It doesn't mean all of the videos made by Kings and Generals are bad or completely false. But it's enough for me to not even bother watching them at all until something convinces me otherwise.

[1]: https://www.kingsandgenerals.net/