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Primary Sources on the Battle of Culloden? | If you're Canadian, James Wolfe played a part in the battle before going on to New France. Ironically it was a Highland Charge by a new unit of Scottish soldiers that helped him beat Montcalm.
I imagine you've already found John Prebble's Culloden, which is a very readable and informative account of before, during an... | {
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What movie would you say enlightened the public the most about history? | Many German history films try to be as historically accurate as possible. Germans are quite sensitive about their history, especially when it comes to the Third Reich or East Germany. Any inaccuracies will be inevitably criticized by the press and historians. There was an outcry when it was made public that "Hollywood"... | {
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Do historians generally agree on the reason why Hitler declared war on the United States? If so, what was it? If not; what are some popular theories? | Military might? The US military prior to it's entry into WW2 wasn't exactly world class. Rommel quotes Hitler as saying "the Americans make razor blades, not bullets" in his memoirs even. Hell, we were having trouble keeping bandits from raiding New Mexico not that long ago.
I've always thought that Hitler was willing... | {
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How did ancient travelers deal with water limits over long distances? | For ancient sailors, the voyages wouldn't have been long enough for them to run out of barreled (scuttlebutted. scuttlebutt is the name for the casks of water on a ship, since sailors were always gathered around it, scuttlebutt became a term for gossip) or jarred water on their ships. Later as they began to make long... | {
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What was the Secret Service in the late 1800's Kentucky? | No it probably was the U.S. Secret Service, they were started by President Lincoln and if I remember right the in the early days they did things like fight counter-fitting and gather intelligence. It wasn't until after President McKinley's assassination that they became presidential protection. | {
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Roman and Carthaginian Cultures | Who wrote most about the Punic Wars? The eventual winners=the Romans.
You don't think they could have had a slight bias? | {
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How effective were missile units in ancient wars? | Mounted archers from horse cultures were probably the most effective units in all of warfare till gunpowder.
See the Battle of Carrhae for a very cool example. And the whole Mongols thing. | {
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Can anybody help me identify a type of helmet? | Ok, well, we have to take a full further back look at the art of the era, as well as the views of the Archangel Michael as seen during that era.
Why Michael? Michael has often been described as the angel who cast out Lucifer from heaven and was lead of God's armies during the battle for heaven.
[This is a statue of ... | {
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How does human space exploration stack up against robotic exploration? (Voting optional) | Robots aren't boring, but to quote the astrophysicist reddit has a crush on; "Until computers synthesize information and recognize a serendipitous discovery when it stares them in the face(and perhaps even when it doesn't) robots will remain tools designed to discover what we already expect to find." [Death by Black Ho... | {
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Need help with Reconstruction paper topic | The passing of the Reconstruction Amendments (13, 14, 15). | {
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The Civil War as Total War? | A lot of history goes to asking why things happened and therefore knowing things like "was the Civil War a total war" really helps to explain the motivations for the policy and military decisions that happened during it.
Total Wars have certain characteristics: we expect nearly 100% mobilization; we expect to see the ... | {
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How serious is an accusation of malicious selective quotation? [this is in the context of the Holocaust, so I'm nervous] | Out of curiosity, may I ask what scholar you are writing about in your paper? From what you've said I have an idea of who it is but I'd be interested to know for sure.
The problem with the history that has been written on the Holocaust is that until relatively recently (the last 20 years or so) a lot of it was shaped... | {
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Is there a relevant connection between the netherlands and swiss? (linguistics/etymologie) | The Swiss speak German, French and Italian. There is no "Swiss" language, so you were probably watching a Swiss German language news channel.
EDIT: [Here](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/KARTE_schweiz_sprachen.png) is a language map of Switzerland. I also forgot to mention Romansh as an official Swi... | {
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How do you think the world would look today if the Confederacy were victorious? | Try [/r/HistoricalWhatIf](/r/HistoricalWhatIf) | {
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Have the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan contributed meaningfully to the "Arab Spring"? | Hello!
I will speak out of a perspective of a military historian. I would say that the answer is no. The mindset of these people were entirely different from the people in Libya or Egypt. Both invasions were not entirely unpopular as people portray them to be for the individual citizen in either country. Afghanistan h... | {
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Are any countries still technically ruled by the pope, besides Vatican City? | No.
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What was the motivation for Japan and Italy to declare an alliance with Germany? What were Hitler's plans for Italian and Japanese men after the war? | It was mostly a matter of mutual interest, more than anything else - the three fascist powers all had a common enemy, namely the Soviet Union. Italy was always the junior partner in the arrangement anyway, and Japan's potential sphere of influence, had the Soviet Union fallen, was far enough away from Europe that it wo... | {
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What are some interesting covert operations done by countries throughout history? | [Operation Entebbe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe). 100 Israeli commandos land a C-130 on an occupied airstrip, drive up to the terminal in a vehicle just like the one Idi Amin used, and liberated over 100 hostages in a surprise raid, while only losing 1 dead and 5 wounded.
It's not exactly an ongo... | {
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To what extent can Ben Gurion be credited with the creation of Israel? | This is actually a really good question, but I would argue that Ben Gurion inherited a prophetic situation. Israel was already going to happen.
If you want to know who I would call the true catalyst for Israel's creation?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl
But if you want to know who I think actually laid th... | {
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English Lineage question. | First off, it is important to remember that by and large, at this time England was not part of the "Continental" sphere of kingdoms, but was really more Scandinavian in its orientation.
This is a question that gets into Medieval lineages, which were often pretty tenuous. But basically, Svein Forkbeard, the Dane, began... | {
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How long did early humans mate for? | You'll probably get a better answer in r/anthropology. | {
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How did Nazi Germany know if someone was a Jew? | Nazi Germany defined who was a jew in the [Nuremberg Laws of 1935](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws). Thus,
* 3 jewish grandparents made you a "full jew" ("Volljude")
* 1 jewish parent or 2 jewish grandparents made you a "first degree mixed-blood" ("Mischling erstens Grades")
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At what point did Osama Bin Laden really start to be Anti-US? | It seems like his anti-US feelings stems from the Israeli invasion of Lebanon 1982. Of course, as you mentioned, Desert Shield made it worse for him.
>"God knows it did not cross our minds to attack the Towers, but after the situation became unbearable—and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the American-Isra... | {
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Aliens through history | It's modern. Before aliens there were demons, witches and so on. Although not a historical work, Carl Sagans *Demon haunted world* deals very much with alien abductions, how they came about and what was in their place before anyone thought about aliens. | {
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Camalot | The ancient site of Troy has been found/excavated and is known as [Hisarlik](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisarlik) in modern day Turkey. | {
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Why does the UK, for its size, have the largest amount of universities near the top of this list that aren't American? | Number of reasons.
1. Language. English is the lingua franca, which means that it's very easy for an english speaking university to "pull" people from a HUGE pool. For example I'm Finnish and went to one of the 3 English universities listed there. Why not France? I don't speak French. A lot of the top universities glo... | {
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How did the British empire come to lose the American colonies? | England was also at war with the French and later the Spanish which required a lot more manpower than the war in the US. Also I don't know if they really got that much income from the American colonies? | {
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Could you guys give me a recommendation on a set of books that I could use to give myself a sort of general understanding of Western History? | I would recommend Eric Hobspawm's series:
[Age of Revolution 1789-1848](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Revolution-1789-1848-History-Civilization-ebook/dp/B004JHY7R2/ref=sr_1_sc_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1330818377&sr=8-3-spell)
[Age of Capital 1848-1875](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Capital-1848-1875-History-Civilization-ebook/dp/B0... | {
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I have a question about Martine Luther King Jr.'s death. | Which conspiracy?
The "Special Forces killed him" one?
The "Memphis Police killed him" one?
Conspiracies suffer from two major problems when analysed.
1) Infinite reduction. When you point out a flaw in the theory, its a conspiracy to hide other facts in the conspiracy, all the way down.
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At what point does a human grave site stop being off limits and start being an archeological site that can be excavated? | I think its related to connection to the people/event. Once a sufficient period of time has past, with the generations who experienced or were related to those that died have long died, things can drift out ot the popular emotional consciousness. As such its why most people dont feel the same qualms with people explori... | {
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Question about using Hayden White and Metahistory in a paper. | We need to see where you are with White first. Could you post a paragraph or so explaining what you think White says? From there we can build on why that's important, and how to use White and other theorists.
For now, keep in mind that "theory" in history is something that helps us think about how history works. You s... | {
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Why didnt Hitler try to "close" the mediterranean sea by taking Gibraltar and Suez? | They tried.
The second battle of El-Alamein 1942 stopped the Afrika Korps from moving deeper into Egypt (and Suez). There was a proposed invasion of Gibraltar, dubbed Operation Felix. However, Franco's fear that the British army would response with an invasion of the Canary Islands lead to Hitler calling it off in a f... | {
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When countries split (Czechoslovakia, Sudan,
Yugoslavia, et al.) how are resources,
administration, etc. reallocated/divided up? | Yugoslavia is really the odd one out since it didn't split peacefully. Being based on federal republic mode, there were state governments who went through a referendum process and decided to declare independence. (Full disclosure: I'm a Croat and since I know most about those events I'll talk from Croatian perspective)... | {
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Is there any truth to the story that when the Egyptians conquered what is now Libya, they took 13,000+ penis' of the defeated enemy as trophies? | Short answer: Technically, foreskins and hands. Yes.
Long answer: In 1182 B.C. an army of Libyans, Meshwesh, Tjekker, and other allies invaded the Nile Delta. Ramesses III defeated the invading army, and his victory inscriptions mention 12,535 foreskins and hands, and has images of the piles of the body parts.
Sourc... | {
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The US seems to be a very religious country, while many European countries are quite secular, if not majority atheist/agnostic. Where did the difference originate? | I'm certainly not an authority on this subject, but there seems to be a correlation between state-run religions and high rates of secularism. The state of religious participation in the deep south prior to the Second Great Awakening is a notable example. The Anglican Church was the only legal church in the southern s... | {
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The Mexican War | While of course it's pretty easy to see the dubious nature of the war's beginnings and that the US was essentially making a land grab, the legality of the war, officially speaking, is pretty cut and dry so far as I know.
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How long have people known about time zones and how were they first discovered? | They weren't discovered, they have been assigned rather arbitrarily.
Before the nineteenth century, there was no need for a standard time that stretched beyond your local setting. So normally, you had your local time - noon is 12 o'clock, watches and clocks over your town could be well out of synch. You had to correct... | {
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By 1571 how secure was Elizabeth I's hold on the throne? | Not a historian, but I'll give this my best shot
* Strong hold on government and country, she still commanded respect of her council and country
* One could argue that her moderate religious settlements, "pacified" the extreme catholics (many preachers were arrested/executed)
* The pope issued a papal bull much late... | {
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could you guys help me learn more about slave revolts? | The topic of slave revolts and escaped slaves is fairly interesting. Try searching on "Maroons"; IMO the most interesting of all are the Jamaican Maroons; they still have an independent territory in Jamaica, although a good portion of them "relocated" to Freetown, Sierra Leone (Africa). | {
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Did any general or army in the history used the "spies" as they are portrayed in the game "Team Fortress 2"? | A specific example somewhat similar that I can think of is during Operation Entebbe (Israeli commandos sent to free hostages in Uganda), the Israeli troops travelled towards the airport in vehicles meant to mimic that used by Idi Amin, to avoid arousing suspicion. However, they came in a black Mercedes and accompanying... | {
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Lenin? | >Can anyone tell me the different reasons explaining why Lenin was bad/good?
Books can. [Like this one](http://www.amazon.com/Lenin-New-Biography-Dmitri-Volkogonov/dp/0029334357/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330901582&sr=8-1) | {
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Mesopotamia and History | I'm not sure it's as strange as you make it out to be, given I don't study this period, but allow me to draw some comparison from what you have written.
It strikes me that what you are seeing is simply a function of myth-making for the purpose of legitimizing states, actions and identity (broadly). I should note I am ... | {
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Unions endorsing political candidates? | Are you looking for a general history of union support? Or is there a more narrow focus? (for example, there is a lot of literature about the teamster's union in the U.S) | {
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Why didn't Titanic bridge the gap with Carpathia? | The gash in the Titanic had begun to flood the boiler rooms, the ice cold water with the red hot boilers would have caused an explosion, so they vented the boilers, thereby removing massive amounts of power, and thereby speed.
A huge ship needs tons of power to move... | {
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How did Christianity impact the Middle Ages politically? | It in many ways *was* the politics of the Middle Ages. Kings could not rule if they were excommunicated, abbies and monasteries controlled tracts of land larger than some of the most powerful nobles, the Pope could send hundreds of thousands of men off to die for God.
All actions by kings and leaders were justified b... | {
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How strong an impact did the Soviet Union have on international left-wing movements? | This is a good question, and obviously varies from country to country. I'll give you one example, that of the UK. The Communist Part of Great Britain (CPGB) was not the largest by any means, it reached a peak of around 50,000 members after WW2. The influence of the Soviet Union, expressed through Communist Internationa... | {
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Are there any maps available of Britain's 'Informal Empire'? | You might need to define what you mean by "informal empire". | {
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Would Russia have improved if the February
Revolution in 1917 was not followed by the October
revolution? | Speculative fiction is not history.
>...but the problem was that Communist like government was actually corrupt so it would never work.
I don't understand what you mean here, the Bolsheviks did take control and did rule.
Are you also implying that the Tsardom wasn't corrupt? | {
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In the late nineteenth century, why were English universities (ie. Oxford, Cambridge) uninterested in teaching and researching science, whereas France and Germany were already funding it from the state? | Most of what you've said is pretty dubious especially the French and Germans leading the field since the end of the French Revolution... That's just wrong.
The continent did probably have better chemists, but as far as world class scientists go, perhaps you've heard of James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin (previously Will... | {
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What was the effect of returning military on the Tulsa Race Riot? | The Tulsa Race Riot, was a incredibly violent and destructive time in our history (I am from Tulsa). What is more incredible is how little is actually taught about it in our school systems, I was in college before I first heard of it.
When reading the stories and looking at the destruction I couldn't help but see a bi... | {
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Top books for historians? | It may be a bit later than you want in terms of the age of exploration, but I think Richter's *Facing East From Indian Country* is fantastic. | {
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How authoritarian Central Asian regimes have managed to maintain power since the 1990s | The Central Asian countries are pretty much the epitome of what I like to think of as "modern dictators." Formerly, dictators relied on ideology to stay in power--either communism or anti-communism, for example. The Central Asian dictators rely on extensive networks of patronage and corruption. These networks (which ex... | {
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Help me understand the Yugoslav Wars and the connection to an old classmate of mine | Well, considering your description, you're looking for the [war in Kosovo 1999](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War).
The NATO bombings was a campaign by NATO to force Milosevic to pull out of Kosovo and to stop what they perceived as an act of ethnic cleansing. So, if I'm correct, she was Serbian and she lived in... | {
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After the failure of the Schlieffen Plan in 1914, was there any realistic path to a German victory in World War I? | If you are saying was there any strategy Germany could have followed that would have led her to success in WWI keeping all variables the same, most likely no. Germany's problems were many, as were those faced by all the major European participants. German generals had to contend with not only France/Britain on the We... | {
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The Evil British Empire? | I haven't read this book, so take whatever I saw with a grain of salt.
The book seems to answer a question that no one asks anymore. At least in the academic discipline, as separate from the media or anything of that nature, comes at imperial history from the position that it was inherently bad for the colonized. That... | {
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When did history start being (or try to be) objective and not allegorical? | [Leopold von Ranke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_von_Ranke) is generally considered to be the forefather of the modern historical profession. It was during the late 19th century that the discipline of history became formalized. Ernst Breisach's *[Historiography](http://www.amazon.com/Historiography-Ancient-Med... | {
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Studying history at MA and Phd level. | > Also is there a good site for listing different careers in history
* http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/krny8/what_is_your_job/
* http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/pmccd/how_hard_is_it_to_become_a_college_or_highschool/
* http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/lhj4c/need_career_ad... | {
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Is there any historical truth to the concept of the ninja? | Yep, ninjas were very much real, although a lot of the modern mythos around them is no doubt heavily embellished.
Although they're associated most with Japan they actually originated in China, inspired by Sun Tzu's 'The art of War' in the 5th c. B.C which emphasised the tactical advantages to be gained by spreading co... | {
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Did Americans take North Vietnamese or Viet Cong prisoner during the Vietnam War? | Did they ever! I actually spent a week on the island that was the main prison camp (today it's just a nearly-deserted tropical paradise with a small museum of the prison). | {
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Describe the Soviet's legacy of power in current Central Asian states | Tired of posts on here phrased exactly as school essay questions. It really smacks of homework. I apologise if that's just your way of speaking, but some of the questions on here really appear to come straight from A Level history textbooks.. | {
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Did protestors spit on returning Vietnam vets? | I have written an [answer to this before](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/mee6s/this_has_bugged_me_for_a_while_what_is_the_key/) so I'll just paste it here:
Quite often, the whole "spitting on" incidents were largely made up or happened in single incidents.
Here's an extract out of "Working-Class War",... | {
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Info on news reports via ticker machine circa early 1900's | News was usually delivered by telegram. However, sports scores were often delivered by ticker. Tickers were simpler machines that could carry information at a rapid pace, while telegraphs were for full messages.
Sports scores would have the abbreviated team name and score for example BOS 3 NYY 1.
The ticker was pre... | {
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When did the Oriental East find out about the Americas? Why didn't they make an effort to claim the Western side of the non-fully colonized NA? | The Pacific Ocean is rather large; Shanghai to San Diego is 6581.88 miles, compared to the 3307.37 miles between Liverpool and New York. For the Chinese, it made much more sense to strike out west to conquer new lands that were, in fact, land and not an ocean several months across and rather tempestuous, and in point o... | {
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Potential combustible fuel sources in the 16th to 18th centuries? | Peat Moss which fueled the old Dutch Empire? | {
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What is a historical "If so-and-so did this, then that would surely have happened" commonly believed by people that in reality wouldn't have made a historical difference at all? | I know that it can be fun, but I tend to back away from historical what if's because I feel like they represent a fundamental misunderstanding about history. Trying to understand why the past happened as it did is kind of what historians do. This means, IMO, that if the past is to be understandable, then such "chance" ... | {
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Were the Latin American wars of independence influenced by U.S. struggle for independence? | Sort of. The independence movement was part foreign influence and internal discontent.
The big external influence was France, with all the "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity" speech. The French Revolution was an inspiration for all America (as a continent), with all the human rights movement. In Mexico, Hidalgo and t... | {
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Book Recommendations about Roman Britain | OK, I deleted my first post because I thought I should actually give some information first.
If you are looking for actual continuity with Roman times, you won't find it. Roman Britain suffered the worst collapse of any of the provinces--after the Anglo Saxon invasion, even such simple technologies as the pottery whee... | {
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Good books on class struggle in America during the late 19th and early 20th century? | This is my end of the pool, so to speak. I could rattle off a bunch, but here's a few to start:
Barrett, *Work and Community in The Jungle*
Salvatore, *Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist*
Storch, *Red Chicago*
Halpern, *Down on the Killing Floor*
All of these (and many^many^many others) will give a good idea of... | {
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The Srebrenica Massacre | Religion (or religions identity/tradition, in the case of atheists) and ethnicity in former Yugoslavia are almost synonymous.
The victims of the Srebrenica massacre were killed not just because they were Muslim by faith but also Muslim by ethnicity. The war criminals who ordered and carried out the massacre were Serb... | {
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What could the world be like if a) the Nazis quit while they were ahead and just stuck with most of Europe and b) didn't commit any genocide, just regular old invasion? | This subreddit is for questions about history.
Post your question in the subreddit -->
http://www.reddit.com/r/historicalwhatif | {
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About to ask my father about his time in Vietnam on multiple tours with the 173d ABN... What should I be asking? | I think one of the best things you can do is to get an overall picture. Not just his time in Vietnam, but also what happened before and after. Ask him about his training, his thoughts about Vietnam before he was deployed and if anything he went through prepared him for what he faced.
This might be a controversial thi... | {
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Why is the United States so involved with Israel? | Boy, oh boy, oh boy. The Million Dollar Question.
If you really want to understand America's relationship with Israel, you have to go back, *way* back, to the early 1800s (at least a century before there was a nation-state called Israel).
During the [Second Great Awakening](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Awakenin... | {
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Rasputin | No, my god, Rasputin didn't cure anything. There still isn't a cure for hemophilia today and treatment remains expensive. If he did anything, it might be hypnotism, which may or may not help some of the symptoms (but not the causes or anything more than just that).
Rasputin was sort of this wandering mystic figure who... | {
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How did Ethiopia successfully avoid colonization? | Ethiopia is a Christian nation and enjoyed a degree of Christian support from European nations, from the Portuguese to the English. Having a Christian king in charge (the fabled Prester John, possibly) definitely kept it out of colonial hands.
Ethiopia also wasn't on the coast. Keep in mind that European penetration i... | {
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Submarine prisoners of war in WWII | Granted it's a film (albeit a very accurately depicted one), but in *Das Boot* one of the pivotal scenes was when they finally, after weeks of fruitless sailing, intercepted and torpedoed a merchant ship. They had to stay at a distance because they had nowhere to keep prisoners of war. | {
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What were and where were the earliest known sports and tests of skill? | Well, considering we know places like Gobekli Tepe had regular gatherings for religious festivals, it stands to reason that during these festivals games would be played.
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How was sovereignty and colonialism different 2000 years ago? | You're talking about whether states had the same sense of external sovereignty as we do today, and the answer is generally no. The modern idea of noninterference in another state's affairs, at least in Europe, was only cemented in 1648 after the Peace of Westphalia that ended the Thirty Years' War. Before this, the Chu... | {
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Before the American revolution, is it true that the British spoke with American accents? | I dont understand how anyone would claim this.
1. What American accent? I assume the North Eastern accent instead of a deep south accent? How can you discount the effect of all the many other accents which have influenced the 'american' accent. Think of the impact of Irish and Scottish accents on American for example.... | {
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Gentle men/ladies, I would be most grateful if you could recommend to me a history of the Romani/Gypsy people. | [Bury Me Standing](http://www.amazon.com/Bury-Me-Standing-Gypsies-Journey/dp/067973743X)
I have never read this book, but I've heard good things about it. I have no idea how into the history it gets, and my understanding is that it is more an ethnography/sociological study. I assume it does deal with the history, howe... | {
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I want some books on some subjets | I assume you checked the sources in the relevant wiki-articles, e.g. about [Bacon's Rebellion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_rebellion)? | {
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Preparing to read Hunter Thompson's "F&L on the Campaign Trail"... Can you recommend a non-gonzo account of the '72 presidential campaign? | I would go with Theodore H. White's [The Making of the President, 1972](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-President-1972-Landmark-Political/dp/0061900672/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1331325774&sr=8-2). I haven't read that one, but I have read his '60 and '68 accounts, both of which are excellent. | {
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'A' historian or 'AN' historian? | I've heard that it is a linguistic difference. "An" historian is preferred in Britain, and "a" historian is preferred in the States. All that really matters is that you use one or the other consistently. | {
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1982 Lebanon War research help | The only book I remmember is "Israel's Lebanon War" by Ze'ev Schiff and Ehud Ya'ari. Very detailed analysis of the conflict.
Not a book but very interesting take on the massacre: there is this movie (it is an animation!) "Waltz with Bashir". Wont help you with your project but it is a great aaproach on the question o... | {
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What's your biggest pet peeve about historical misconceptions? | The idea that the US won WW2 and took out Hitler. | {
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Fascism and communism in 1930's Europe! | Fascism is a **political** system wherein all power lies with a single supreme leader. It is an authoritarian style of government, usually with a hierarchy of power-wielders reporting to the leader. It's about controlling what people do and think.
Communism is an **economic** system wherein the economic resources of a... | {
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Am I crazy, or is there some kind of conspiracy against French Guiana? It seems to not count as France whenever there's a global infographic, and nobody seems to know it exists. | To be fair it is kind of insignificant - the population is about 200,000 and the only reason I've ever heard of it is because there's a European Space Agency launchpad there.
I wouldn't say there's a conspiracy either. British territories like Gibraltar and the Falklands aren't usually prominently marked on maps. | {
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Was Serapis invented by the Ptolemies? Who says this? | It's most likely a combination of the two theories you've pointed out. It appears that sarapis has elements of dionysus, osiris and hades. all four of these gods link to the afterlife, (arguably) the main focus of cultic worship from the classical and hellenistic periods. if you're interested in the syncretism of th... | {
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Ancient Greece: Was "mythology" as we know it taken as fact? As fiction/allegory? A combination? | It is difficult to say what those in classical Greece thought, but it is instructive that Socrates was accused of creating new divinities and of atheism, so to dismiss mythology as entirely conscious allegory would be incorrect.
Luckily, we can say rather more about what Romans thought. St. Augustine, the greatest ear... | {
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Topic and angle for a senior honors thesis paper. | Do it on the 'memory' of WWII in Russia and the Baltics, specifically how the Baltics like to blame the Soviet Union for all their ills and simultaneously forget their own collaborationist past and role in the Holocaust. | {
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What would have the Soviet Union (and the world) become if Leon Trotsky, not Stalin, succeeded Lenin as the head of the Communist Party? | Historians do not like to speculate, however you can make your own conclusion:
-Trotskyism opposes Stalin's Socialism in One Country (direct conflict with the idea of Permanent Revolution / International revolution)
-When Stalin came to power (1922/24 and sole leader in 1929) Europe was already mired with nationalist... | {
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How have women throughout history, and throughout different cultures dealt with their period? | Here's the Orthodox Jewish Laws on menstruation and the rituals around it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niddah
Not only in the menstrual blood viewed as unclean and polluting, but so is the menstruating woman herself, she is meant to undergo purification rituals afterwards before she can sleep with her husband or ent... | {
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What were the main reasons that the USSR survived the German invasion? | [Read the following](http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Barbarossa-Germanys-Cambridge-Histories/dp/052117015X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331409936&sr=8-1)
You've left out plenty and your argument(s) are too generalized.
>I'd also bring up Hitler's refusal to take advice from his generals and how that led to th... | {
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Fellow military historians, mount up! I'm writing a paper, and could use a hand. | A little vague...
You could look at Kennan's Long Telegram, sent from Moscow after the war, where he spells out the policy of containment of the USSR, Joe Siracusa has written on it a lot...
Also, you could look at continuity, by the time of WWII, the US already had an empire after the invasions of Hawaii, Cuba, the ... | {
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Can anyone help me understand the spread of the French revolution? | I found this.
http://faculty.unlv.edu/gbrown/westernciv/wc201/wciv2c15/wciv2c15lsec1.html | {
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Did ancient mythologies ever have crossovers? | Joshua vs the Amorites in the book of Joshua comes to mind.
Yahweh, the Israelite God is shown to be more powerful than the nature Gods of the Amorites, and is described as destroying these Gods while Joshua's army defeats their army.
This is reflective of the conceptions of gods that existed at the time. Gods were ... | {
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Were there any cats in the Americas prior to their "discovery"? | Native american felines include mountain lions, jaguars, lynxes, bobcats and ocelots. There are others but they are not as well known. None of these cats were known to be domesticated. | {
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Are there any accessible books on the bronze age collapse? | Check out [The End of the Bronze Age](http://www.amazon.ca/The-End-Bronze-Age-Catastrophe/dp/0691025916/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331486974&sr=1-1) by Robert Drews. | {
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Was there anything that existed in the Middle Ages that would have been able to prevent and/or cure Bubonic Plague (AKA Black Death)? | No, the bubonic plague is killed by antibiotics, as you would expect from a bacterial-based infection. Since there wasn't any way to completely kill the flea population of Europe and antibiotics haven't been discovered yet, I can safely say that nope, they were screwed from the beginning. | {
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Historians: How do you come up with ideas/theses for a paper? How do you write the paper itself? | >How do you come up with ideas/theses for a paper? Especially when you have no access to sources (for example if you write on the history of another nation)?
You can't. A paper with no sources is fiction.
>How do you develop these ideas into a paper? Do you ask specific questions on a topic?
Yes. This is the... | {
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Origin of wearing a hat in doors showing disrespect/being rude? | Alright, I have no way of knowing if this is correct, but here is my guess:
A hat is an essentially "outdoor" wear. It can be lumped with coats and the like. By wearing a hat indoors, one is signalling that one is about to, or at least is ready to, go outdoors. This in turn is a breach of hospitality ethics, because t... | {
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