The way around the bootstrapping problem that I recommend to people starting to research a new topic is to make sure you're reading enough variety of sources to find out what different schools of thought exist-- if you can't tell me there's a group of people who believe that X but there's a group of people who believe that Y, you haven't read enough yet.
Finding that _and_ sources that present the drama of a particular incident in history is another matter altogether, and a much more difficult one. I get likely candidates out of Wikipedia, but then I may check them in Amazon to find out which ones have a rep for being the most engaging. I can't guarantee this will work really well... but it's the method I would try first.
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Date: 2010-02-15 07:28 pm (UTC)Finding that _and_ sources that present the drama of a particular incident in history is another matter altogether, and a much more difficult one. I get likely candidates out of Wikipedia, but then I may check them in Amazon to find out which ones have a rep for being the most engaging. I can't guarantee this will work really well... but it's the method I would try first.