Welcome to Dave Loves History!

This started as a simple Facebook Page (which it also still is) where I could share (mostly for my own reading later purposes) articles about history that had drawn my attention.

I follow a number of history and history related sites, and given the way Facebook treats readers by deciding for them what they should or should not be reading, I decided to shift to a Blog Page. This will ensure that followers get notifications of every post. It also will give me a way to index posts for future reference. It also gives me a better platform for writing my own history articles, something that I feel is coming soon.

My “Periods of Passion” remain as follows:

The 18th Dynasty of Egypt
Ancient Israel through the era of Maccabeus
Classical Greek and Roman History
American History, from 1763 through the Presidential Election of 1804
The American Civil War
The Plains Indian Wars
World War I
World War II
The Cold War and its Conflicts
Naval History
Submarines
And my family history especially as it relates to any of the periods listed above.

In early 2024, I became very fascinated with the ChatGPT model and began to learn to use it. By the summer of 2024, I was using it to create the daily articles for this page and I later added the podcast audio versions as my skills grew. My plan is to continue to hone my AI skills through 2024 before a major revamp in 2025

Always remember that we can only interpret history through the lens of our own experience and knowledge. The biggest mistake any historian can make is to interpret history by own our cultural and societal values. Unless we were there, we can only strive to learn, we cannot correct or change the past to meet our own sensibilities or judgments.

Enjoy and may we all learn something new!