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Try podcasts and YouTube. Easy, digestible and mostly informative. It's also how pretty much 90% of /his/ retards get their history (unless they're /pol/-brained schizos who get it all from stormfag memes).
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is the classic, but it's kinda dumb /pw/-guy territory. To be fair, if you're an uneducated oaf that is probably what you want.
Mike Duncan had two very good podcasts: History of Rome chronologically covered the entire history of Rome from founding of the city to collapse of the Western Empire (early episodes are very rough audio quality wise, but it gets better).
The second is Revolutions, which is a collection of narratives on famous political revolutions, from the English Civil War to the American Revolution, French Revolution, Haitian Revolution and all the way to the Russian Revolution(s). It's pretty much a crash course in early modern European political history.
Beyond that you can just google literally any country, civilization or era and add "history podcast" to that and get sometimes multiple hits. My personal favorite is History in the Bible, but that's kinda niche.
On YouTube it's mostly garbage, but you can look up whatever you want and the Algorithm will happily dump some 95 IQ normalfag shit (which, again, is probably what you want). History Matters is the least worst one.
My personal YouTube "favorites" are Historia Civilis, Jeffrey the Librarian and Religion for Breakfast.
Finally you should look up the bibliography of any pop-history internet thing you consume. Any responsible channel or podcast should have a section like that. Pick out a book that looks particularly interesting to you and pirate it. As long as it's not an unbearable academic slog, it should be a good entry point to actual history. Wikipedia citations work similarly.
