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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"I guess I have a sort of technical question: is there an accepted way of integrating hard, quantitative data into otherwise standard-issue history papers? If I say \"of X seals, Y show this figure, which shows us Z,\" should I be including the data for this in a footnote? Should I have a longer write-up with metho... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Research on a couple of questions here, and some other work I'm doing, have brought me into contact with Anglo-Saxon history (and the fantastic phrase \"Anglo-Saxon fish event horizon\"). It's clear that there's currently a lot of debate in this area over the question of continuity or change between Roman Britain ... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"There was a thread over in r/badhistory about the Protestant Reformation and the printing press being the medium through which it advanced. It was ultimately decided that the post in question was not bad history as the issue wasn't settled. Is that the case? What work is currently being done on this topic? Edit: ... | [
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"Can anyone suggest respected works that deal, on a theoretical level, with the concept of elites? Specifically from the standpoint of history."
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"I have a question/observation that is mostly addressed to /u/khosikulu and /u/profrhodes. Though if other post-colonial scholars feel moved to answer, I am all ears. In conversations with Ghanaians that I have met, they have strongly positive attitudes toward Kwame Nkrumah, both from those old enough to remember h... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Currently working on State theory for my thesis; Instrumentalism, Structuralism, and world-system analysis. Has anyone else worked with these concepts? Where do you fall on the Instrumentalism-Structurtalism debate?"
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"How would you describe the difference between the history of science and the history of knowledge? It seems straightforward, but I have seen very different interpretations and also many historians who don't seem to care about the distinction. In my opinion, they are just two sides of the same coin."
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Here and there in the sub I've seen mentioned that the classical Marxist explanation of the French bourgeoisie fighting the French Revolution against backwards aristocrats is wrong. The idea being that the protagonism usually given to the French bourgeoisie, as well as the supposedly feudalistic nature of the aris... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"The hell is \"quiritary ownership\"? Just came across this concept, used casually by Wallerstein, and I was hoping someone could help explain it to me. As best I can tell, quiritary ownership refers to a specific kind of ownership, dating to early Roman law, in which Roman citizens held property by virtue in their... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Not sure if this is history-related enough, but I'll give it a try: Does anyone know a good introductory text on cosmopolitanism? When researching the concept I was a bit overwhelmed by the amount of sources from politics/sociology/literary studies on this. I'd be especially interested in post-colonial approaches,... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"There are various historical methodologies that are accepted as valid for the interpretation of the past. Among them are Marxist, postmodern, environmental, etc. However, religious lenses tend to be looked down upon. I would guess this has to do with the view of History as a science, but with a move away from such... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"How is public history as a graduate degree? I oove theory and I find public history interesting, but I'm really having trouble compairing it to my other options."
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"During my studies, we learned about David Irving's Holocaust-denial(although he denies his own denial). My question is what do you other professional historians and \"amateur\" historians(to use the correct term, not to talk you down) think of his and other historians denial of something as certain as the Holocau... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"What efforts do historians enact to counter the issue of \"history is written by the victors\"? How do we manage to report reliably on the causes of wars, etc, when the most frequent surviving accounts would seem to be in the favor of power at the time?"
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Was just reading *Between the World and Me* and Coates made one (of many) statements that struck me as a little controversial. It was something along the lines of - Race didn't invent racism- I was wondering what the consensus of racial theorists believe? I was under the impression that it wasn't until the categor... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Just curious for everyone's thoughts. What is pop history, how do we differentiate it from academic history, and to what degree is it useful? Added query, what pop history do you find compelling or of exceprional quality?"
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Teachers and collectors of history! Please swing by /u/TeachingHistory's thread on [What artifacts can I bring to get my general world history undergrads pumped about the past?](_URL_0_) with some advice and experience!"
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"What is the \"new narrative history\"? I've seen this term a couple times now in book-blurb descriptions. I have some thoughts, but they are breathtakingly cynical, so I shall keep them in reserve and wait for a more balanced answer."
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Are the methods used by Christopher Mathew in A Storm of Spears considered valid to historians? For the unfamiliar, there's a debate about how Greek hoplites used their spears, so the author and his team strapped on armor and spent a long time practicing military drills and formations with the spears both ways. I'... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"What are some of the most important contributions to the study of U.S. history by non-U.S. scholars? Are there any good analyses of trends in specifically non-U.S. scholarly views of American history?"
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"To what extent do historians here regard their own historical _method_ as itself derived from the historical conditions of our moment? How objective do we presume ourselves to be? What's the attitude toward falsifiability? I'm reading Fredric Jameson's \"postmodernism: the cultural logic of late capitalism\" and i... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Does anyone know Japanese history PHD doing Sengoku or Bakumatsu? My economic map of koku output is proceeding steadily and I've finished most of Honshu. I want to both share it and look for other primary source of economic information. Like income from trade, mining, production, and the major roadways."
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"This is one more for the grad students: Having just passed (!!!) my comprehensive exam, I wonder if there's not a better way to structure these. At my school, the bulk of the exam is an 1.5 hour oral exam, which the student takes without notes or any kind of pre-written response. While this is a good test of recal... | [
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"How influential is Clauswitz on our understanding of the philosophy of history? Everyone studies him and quotes him, but has he fundamentally changed the way we view the history of conflict?"
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Sci-hist people. Is there a good history of meteorology out there? I'm especially interested in ancient/medieval/early modern understandings of the weather, around the world, but I'd take reading recommendations on the modern development as well. Thanks!"
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Who is your \"role model\" as a historian? In addition to the work you use/read (even if it's \"just\" for answers in AH!) and the work you admire, which books and historians do you dream about attempting to emulate in some way?"
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"What are your thoughts on accounting for individuals' psychological factors to explain an event? Maybe not to the psychoanalytic extent, but winking in its direction: f.e. \"His ability to rebel, learned in his youth, is why he could lead the revolt later in life.\" (a) Can we use sources to reconstruct a psycholo... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Read *Translating Property* this week. It seems that this work is at least popular (hardback to paperback in 3 years) and well received (Associate Professorship at NYU-Shanghai). That said, I didn't find it to be well done. I felt that the stated activism of the author led to some deficiencies in analysis in the t... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"What does graduate studies in Medieval History look like? How are the courses structured? Who are the main scholars I would read?"
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Can any early/colonial US historians speak to the evolution of the historiography of Puritanism and the Puritans in this country, especially as it has developed/changed in recent decades? What are the current debates and stakes of those debates surrounding the historiography of Puritanism as it relates to early US... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"• What has been the history of regulating historic work ? I.e what are the dominating philosophic ideas on history that had come to be the bedrock of modern historic academia? • what challenges does the historic field face in a globalized world with multicountry cooperation between historians working at times wit... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"This may be obscure, but I ended finding an interesting theory while reading the translators notes in the Forme of Cury. (a 13th century English scroll about cooking.) He noted that the word *Pynes,* which is almost always assumed to mean pine seeds/nuts actually references the [Mulberry](_URL_0_), a berry that lo... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"I would really like to know a good book on the philosophy of history, or a place where I could learn more to contribute about the philosophy of history."
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"> Historiographical disputes, debates and rivalries This may fall less into the realm of historiography and more into philology, but I recall a encountering a debate across several journal articles about the meaning of the word \"sinistrorsum\" in Horace Epode IX, and the implications it has for Cleopatra's intent... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"How well regarded are the writings of Joseph Campbell by historians?"
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"I wonder if there is any kind of debate about to what extent history should be an empathetic enterprise? I'm also just interested in how historians contextualize the human side of historical events. I have noticed that, at least in popular history, it is often a very different tone taken about, say, the Holocaust ... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"I've got a question about what I think fits: How do historians decide when to address a certain event or series of events \"genocide\" and when to not? Two examples come to mind specifically, one is Cambodian genocide and the other, Holodomor or the Great Purges. In these examples, what strikes me as different is ... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"How big is the \"big history\" movement? As an undergrad, one of my professors started her class by having us write a one page paper explaining what history is. I wrote that it covers all events since the big bang and received a comment reflecting her training which stated that historians focus solely on past hum... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"I noticed several academic books have \"in the X imagination\" in their title. Such as *Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination* by Paul Freedman, *Saracens, Islam in the Medieval European Imagination* by John Tolan, and *The Peasant Kingdom: Canada in The 19th-Century Russian Imagination* by J.L. Bla... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"So I saw the other thread about academia publishing about modern literature and social media. So I was wondering, now that globalization, the internet, and social media are in full swing, how much cross pollination is there between academia in the U.S., Europe, African, South Asia, East Asia, etc literature? Do we... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"I like to joke about studying \"white people history,\" but this is a dangerous deception in two major, major ways. First, medieval Europe was not \"white\" in either the modern sense OR in the sense of everyone having a pale-skin phenotype; second, people of *all* colors are medievalists--including of the stodgie... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Help! Can someone explain SCOT and Structuration theory to an idiot?"
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"I have an interest in Greco-Roman philosophy, and before I started reading primary sources I wanted to know more about who the Greeks and Romans were: their lives, their culture, the views on themselves and the world around them, and the major events that happened around them (ie, the Peloponnesian war). I've bee... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"A few days ago, /u/kurrkurr asked a follow up in [this thread](_URL_0_) which I removed for being too off topic, but did promise it would have a home here! As such, posting it here so hopefully some people can weigh in on the nature of historical enquiry that this strikes at! > Why can you cite sources like \"Bar... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"I am curious what historians think of Why Nations Fail, by Daron Acemoglu? I have criticisms from the perspective of economics and political science (I think institutions are poorly defined, and he is assuming institutions evolved in a certain way, when there is no reason to assume they did so) but I was wondering... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Something that's always bothered me and nicely AskHistorians related: how did the tweed jacket get associated with male professors? Were there really just a ton of academics running around in tweed for a while? Why tweed?"
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"So, I realized belatedly that a major portion of my thesis is tackling a more or less unspoken assumption among many American military historians that centralization of power was both inevitable and desirable; it's one of the gross assumptions that much of the criticism of the militia comes from. Is there a name o... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"I'm not a historian, I'm a poli sci/gender guy, but one of the subjects I do work in are the ways in which conflict and trauma are remembered and memorialized in post-conflict and deeply divided spaces. I'd be really interested to read about how history as a discipline, and historians themselves navigate these ki... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"I have a few questions for 20th century political historians: How do historians usually work with 20th century political commentators? Are they good primary sources to understand the political opinions of the general public or do they just show the commentators' opinions? Are there any works that discuss how histo... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"I'm trying to better understand the historiographical genealogy of John Dower's *War Without Mercy*. Was a racial understanding of the Pacific War's brutality unprecedented? What are the other main scholarly explanations for the fighting's horrific character?"
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Are there any good introduction books to historiography in general? JFK in particular? Thank you"
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Hello. Nice to post here again. My second semester as a college freshman is going well. Taking a US Civil War Class and looks very interesting. Anyways, I have a question: In his first appearance on the *Joe Rogan Experience,* [Bret Weinstein](_URL_0_) talked about a paper he wrote as an undergraduate. Weinstein s... | [
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"In his *Atlantic Escorts*, when discussing living conditions aboard the ships in question, D K Brown makes the comment \"It is strange that the two best books dealing with living are both described as ‘fiction’\". The books in question are Nicholas Monsarrat's *The Cruel Sea* and J P W Mallalieu's *Very Ordinary S... | [
"Side 1 - For Vaccines: -Science Side 2 - Against Vaccines: -Paranoid idiocy"
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Theory Thursday | Academic/Professional History Free-for-All | [
"Hi friends! I've been working as a middle school history teacher for a while now, and one thing I'm trying to get my budding young historians to think about is the way our cultural backgrounds influence the way we judge the importance of an event, idea, or source. (To be honest, I'm fairly sure that in-depth debat... | [
"Side 1 - For Vaccines: -Science Side 2 - Against Vaccines: -Paranoid idiocy"
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Book recommendations for the Warring States period in China? | [
"Well I'm currently reading John Keay's *China: A History*. It doesn't focus *specifically* on the Warring States Period, but it has some pretty good information on it and on the ensuing Qin Empire of Shi Huangdi. _URL_0_"
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"Are there any good introduction books to historiography in general? JFK in particular? Thank you"
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What were the primary small arms used by North Korean and Chinese forces during the Korean War? | [
"The North Korean Army used just about every weapon in the Soviet Arsenal as well as some Chinese and Japanese weapons. This included but is not limited to - * Mosin Nagant - _URL_4_ * PPSH-41 - _URL_2_ * SVT-40 - _URL_5_ * SKS - _URL_6_ * Type 99 Arisaka _URL_3_ * Degtyaryov DP-28 _URL_7_ * TT-33 _URL_1_ If you'd... | [
"Was any Asian country capable of helping the United States during the revolutionary war?"
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The wall calendar from HBO's Rome series | [
"[Picture of the calendar from the set of the series](_URL_2_). I have no idea whether such a calendar was in use the way it's depicted, though I would assume for something like this to have been built for the series that there would be adequate evidence to show that something similar was used. Probably in one of t... | [
"It's a meme. Google spiderman meme, the show they get it from is the show that the comics inspired."
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A stereotypical Western depiction of African women has them carrying objects on their heads (jars, water jugs, food bags). Did this practice exist in Europe prior to industrialisation? | [
"What an interesting question! i look forward to an answer by a classicist or archaeologist, but in the meantime I do enjoy taking a stab at empirical answers to 'yes or no' empirical questions through a little googling. The most famous instance of female load-bearing on the head in \"Europe\" is the Greek [Caryat... | [
"In ancient societies, bulls were used to plow the land for agriculture something that goats, sheep cannot do. This is still done in parts of southeast Asia and India."
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Need help identifying very old gold ring with a mysterious emblem | [
"Are you sure it never had a stone in it? That lip and the markings make it look like a typical bezel setting, and the scratches are just what was on the bit of metal they bonded the wire to, or after they burred it a little to get the right shape."
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"Far left is a sticker for participating in a 10k run, mid-right is a turtle, far right appears to be an identification tag of some sort, and I don't know what mid-left is."
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Thomas Asbridge history books questions | [
"It looks like it's different editions of the same book. The first book you linked is the [US paperback edition](_URL_1_), the second book is the [UK ebook edition](_URL_3_). There's also an [UK paperback edition](_URL_0_) and a [US ebook edition](_URL_2_). It is not unusual for there to be a slight delay between e... | [
"Try bitterly divided by David Williams and also plain folk in a rich mans war by David Williams."
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In the early days of spy satellites, what sort of training was necessary for analysts to be able to make sense of those grainy images? | [
"The techniques of aerial photo analysis and interpretation had been really well developed during World War II. There's an awful lot you can learn from shadows, for instance, or looking not just at buildings but at the parking area, trucks or railcars adjacent, stacks of materials, etc. During the 1950s, color and ... | [
"It's where satellites are, and satellites are the backbone of modern communications and photo-reconnaissance technology. The GPS satellites, for example, allow the US military to guide vehicles and weapons to anywhere on the globe with a tiny margin of error. That's a *HUGE* advantage in a fight. Reconnaissance sa... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What was communication like in the 11th century Norse sphere? Would an Icelandic farmer have any knowledge or interest in the current king of Norway or the Norman conquest of England? | [
"There was quite a lot of contact. Many Norse ended up in Iceland because they ran afoul of a King of Norway, or Earl in the Orkneys. The best source for contacts across the N Atlantic is the Icelandic sagas. Many characters such as Njal and Egil, live in Iceland, but are often in Norway or farther afield. Egil r... | [
"The Middle Ages is a pretty huge period that spanned centuries, so you might want to refine your question. The daily life of a monarch in the 8th century was incomparably different from that of a 16th century one."
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Who created the pictures of hearts and stars that look nothing like the real thing? | [
"Well, to be fair, stars do look sort of like that. The distortion in the light as it passes through Earth's atmosphere makes the stars appear to twinkle, giving them shifting points that can only be depicted as static when drawn."
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"What color is the skin of most of the people who make and utilize those drawings? Theres your answer"
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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | November 30, 2015–December 06, 2015 | [
"I really enjoyed /u/Tiako's answers to [ How do historians feel about Graham Hancock? I just discovered his books and they seem interesting, is he a kook or does his theories hold weight?](_URL_0_)"
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"It's a bit unclear what you're interested in. (Early US education? Mann? Cremin's perspective?) But here are some resources that may help: > Binder, Frederick M. The Age of the Common School: 1830-1865. New York: Wiley, 1974. > > Glenn, Jr., Charles Leslie. The Myth of the Common School. Amherst: University of M... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How did canons change city defenses? | [
"Medieval castle walls could be thick, but were often many times taller than they were wide, and constructed of mortar and stone. Cannons had little trouble reducing such structures. Fortress design came to favor lower walls, backed by earth and gravel, many times wider than they were tall. Also, fortifications fe... | [
"Follow up question (please don't delete) how influential were nobility titles on economic upward mobility in the Europe of that same time?"
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Is there any video/TV footage of former slaves and slave owners? | [
"Would you be interested in audio footage? [The Library of Congress has a number of audio interviews with former slaves.](_URL_0_)"
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"To piggyback on this question, I know there was a booklet that helped African Americans on road trips, were there any suggestions in that booklet about air travel?"
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What happened in the 1949 evacuation of the Nationalist Chinese government to Taiwan? | [
"Somewhere between Paris and Russia I think. It is believe that Chiang Kai-Shek decided to eventually retreat to Taiwan at the beginning of 1949. He sent his son, Chiang Ching-Kuo to Taiwan in March, with several Chiang's most trusted officers, to prepare the retreat. From March to December, a lot of fortunes and n... | [
"Technically speaking, a commune with no written laws is anarchy. Recent examples of anarchist communes would be Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War, and the Ukrainian Free Territory for a short time after the October Revolution."
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How reliable are Hans-Ulrich Rudel's tank kills? | [
"> I have read about trials conducted by Soviets, Germans and the Allies that show how difficult it was to even damage tanks with bombs Most of the tank kills credited to Rudel were not with bombs but with the dedicated tank killing Ju 87 G model of the Stuka armed with two 37mm antitank cannon in pods under the wi... | [
"Lots of people did. The wars were only 21 years apart, after all. 50% of all French males in 1939 were combat veterans. German pilot [Theo Osterkamp](_URL_0_) scored 32 victories in the first world war and 6 in the second. [Harry von Bülow-Bothkamp](_URL_1_) scored 6 victories in World War I, and became a Luftwaff... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Were people of the past "us in different clothes?" The recent questions about geeks and anal sex raised the question but I'm not sure they answered it. | [
"Can you link what recent question you are talking about? But the short answer is no. The longer answer, well, we have a roundtable coming up soon where we will discuss how you can't psychologize the past. Specifically, what I'm thinking of is sexuality. You can't take modern terms invented in the 1800s and project... | [
"I don't this is the best sub to ask this question unless you want historical examples of one person being completely in the know about what their intelligence agency was doing. But I think your question the way it's phrased is occupied with the present."
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Did Lenn really fly to the moon in the belly of an eagle made of fire? How did his daughter Salya "walk among the stars"? | [
"Absolutely. As with all stories from the first age, the facts have become lost in the turnings of the wheel, but it is clear that Lenn did fly to the moon. Whether an eagle was involved is simply mixing up the story with other even older myths from the first age. Salya had plenty of help walking among the stars fr... | [
"Like you're 5? Aliens put a big black rock near monkeys to make them smart, and they start killing each other. In modern times people find another black rock on the moon that sends a message to Jupiter. More people go to Jupiter but on the way their computer becomes evil and kills everyone but a man named Dave, wh... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Is there a specific version of The Art of War I should read? | [
"I own and use [the Penguin Deluxe Edition](_URL_0_) is perfectly adequate for casual reading and offers an excellent introduction, the same text twice (once with commentary and another without), and compiles comments from numerous Ancient through to Modern Chinese authors and generals. It is packed full of anecdot... | [
"I'm fairly certain this doesn't have an exact answer as of yet."
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What's the difference between the Social Credit movement of the 30s and the modern concept of Universal Basic Income? | [
"If you haven't already, I would check out /r/AskEconomics. They field a lot of questions related to UBI (even have a FAQ on their sidebar) and may be better suited to answer this?"
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"That depends, what is your or your cultural definition of the 'purest' form of capitalism? Is it Austrian School Capitalism of free and open markets with complete Laize Faire politics? Is it a State Capitalist system in which free capital markets are controlled by the state? Or is it 14th Century Agrarian Capitali... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What kept the legend of Romulus from turning into a religion? | [
"I'm not sure what you mean. Romulus *was* worshipped. Both as a sort of local Genius and in association with Quirinus. Romulus was a god, and was owed divine offerings and honors. The supposed Hut of Romulus was a cult site, he was associated with the Lupercal and the pomerium, etc. Mind you, just because his stor... | [
"Because Caesar was actually important back then, unlike Jesus."
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Did travelers on the Overland Trails ever actually "caulk the wagon and float it across?" | [
"Certainly, it's well attested, for instance by [Abigail Scott Duniway](_URL_0_) (née Abigail Jane Scott) whose party sent two caulked wagons across the Snake River on August 15, 1852. Her account is [available online here](_URL_1_) (*Covered Wagon Women: 1852, the Oregon Trail*, by K.L. Holmes, 1997, p. 109). > A... | [
"On a boat, you can have thousands of pounds of goods and don't need anyone to carry it. It's floating. Your crew can sleep while you continue moving. You don't need to brave the incredibly brutal terrain of Egypt. You don't need to feed and care for the hundreds of animals that may be needed to carry your cargo ho... | eli5_question_answer | {
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I'm a medieval knight and I just charged into my enemy with my lance. Now what? | [
"Lances did break though not as much as in demonstrations/jousting. Those lances are *made* to break. Disarmament also happened, but there are techniques to avoid it. For an example, there is a technique used in current mounted skill at arms to avoid losing the lance. Essentially upon contact, you allow the lance ... | [
"The stars lead the assault. If you were to grab a flag and run with it on a staff it would look exactly as it does on the uniform."
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We all know the story about how Galileo was shunned from the scientific community, had his books burned and was jailed for discovering that the earth rotated the sun, but how much if it is true? | [
"What an excellent question, just like other excellent questions, this has been asked several times before. May I recommend that you read posts by /u/ManicMarine recently [here](_URL_2_) and [this thread here](_URL_2_)?"
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"Because the two overlap in many areas. For example, scientists look at facts and come up with sound, logical and demonstrable examples of how mankind evolved, they can tell you what the universe was like a billionth of a second after the big bang, they can carbon date things to show how they are millions of years ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Slave owning First Nations Americans, is this true? | [
"Native American slaveholders were definitely a thing. This is something that happened in areas where Native Americans came closest to adopting Western customs (including chattel slavery). Most famously this occurred amongst the nations that were subject to the Trail of Tears, like the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Choc... | [
"Colonization... Remember? These maps were drawn by people who had never even been to the African continent. This is yours , that's mine etc etc"
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In the first Sherlock Holmes book Watson lists a collection of subjects Holmes was ignorant of (it later turns out he's blocking out subjects that aren't helpful to mystery solving), One of the subjects is "western philosophy". would that be considered a bad thing in the 1880s? | [
"Before and during the Victorian era, the classics were considered a vital part of any full and well-rounded education for a young gentleman. This included the Graeco-Roman (many of the greatest Greek philosophers actually lived under the Roman era) and following christian philosophy, ethics and and theories of soc... | [
"I'm new to this, are we allowed to discuss the intent or narrative of the author and the context in which this was written even if it's within the last 20 years?"
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"Drain the swamp", so said the Nazis (research question) | [
"What's the source you read it in? also, what's the german phrase you're referring to? it would help if you could distinguish between wir sollten den Sumpf drainieren and some version using trocken legen."
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"The short answer is *selective memory*. There were massive protests following President Obama's election. Many protesters believed Obama was Kenyan and illegally running for office due to the many year racist campaign fronted by... Our next president Donald Trump. Obama's election really kicked off regular protes... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Questions about the job! | [
"I'm not completely sure if these kinds of questions are allowed on this sub as well, but I can try to answer you in any case. I'm also a Canadian, starting her PhD in Art History this fall. I've been at two different Canadian universities for my undergrad and master's degrees and will be starting my third this fal... | [
"Would you like to share the criticism from Kant?"
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When did the devil gain his "suit" in popular culture? | [
"The earliest I can gather is the 1937 story *The Devil and Daniel Webster*. From there a whole bunch of allegorical stories in that same vein come about, like the legends of singers selling their soul at the crossroads that pervade southern blues culture. Those frequently tell about the Devil wearing a sharp looki... | [
"They are more or less the same from my understanding. Lucifer was the name of the angel who tried to rise above god and got sent as punishment out of heaven onto earth where was known than as Satan. Both names are part of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Devil is just kinda general personified evil counterpart of ... | eli5_question_answer | {
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How did Mathematicians and Scientists in pre-calculator times precisely compute values? | [
"First, lets take a second to understand HOW things are calculated. Some problems in calculus have what are called exact solutions. You can use methods to figure out an exact solution for EVERY POSSIBLE VARIABLE. Most problems in practice, have exact solutions that are so difficult to determine it's just not practi... | [
"Math is so pure and simple, facts are facts and concrete rules define all the relationships. Only Barbie thinks \"Math is Hard\", but her head is full of hair. Counting started before written history, systematic numbers were defined by the Sumerians, number place was invented by the Babylonians. More kinds of math... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Elvis Presley and James Brown's performing eras overlapped, so why did people have such a problem with Elvis' gyrating, but not James' dancing? | [
"Although their careers overlapped James Brown did not make his debut on the Ed Sullivan show until 1966, while the Elvis shows were in 1956. In the intervening ten years television censors had become more relaxed plus the US had undergone the Beatlemania phenomenon in the mean time. Secondly, Elvis's dancing style... | [
"I can't tell you much about after he found fame, but before he was famous he was prominent in Tennesse. Hendrix was a fan of the R and B scene around Clarksville. It's there he saw a local musician playing guitar with his teeth and picked up that trick. He eventually moved to Jefferson Street in Nashville which wa... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Did people ever believe that humans couldn't exceed a specific speed? | [
"I'm having an impossible time finding a source for this, but when the train was first invented/becoming common, especially in the UK, there were urban legends that the speed of the train (even being inside of it) was too fast for humans to tolerate and could cause seizures, make it impossible to breathe, and even ... | [
"Yes. There are bio-mechanical limits that humans cannot overcome. People have tried calculating them; an estimate for the best possible marathon is just under two hours."
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Before the speed of light, were there slower theoretical upper speed limits of motion? | [
"The prevailing model of physics prior to special and general relativity was Newtonian. Under Newtonian mechanics, there is no theoretical maximum speed. Prior to the 17th century and the work of Ole Rømer, Light was believed to be an instantaneous phenomenon, however it was not until much later, around the turn of... | [
"It expanded faster than the speed of light. Speed of light (or more correctly of causality) is the speed limit for things traveling through space. Space itself has no such limitation."
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Recommendations please: resources for an in-depth look at New England (particularly Connecticut and New York City) in the 1830s and 40s | [
"Just a point of clarification, most people wouldn't consider New York City to be in New England. A book on the history of New England would most likely not cover New York City to any great extent."
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"I'm broadly researching the African American experience in the Wilmington N.C. area. I am an intern at Fort Fisher State Historic Site, so my research anchors around Ft. Fisher and Federal Point, but extends to the local area. This project spans from (roughly) 1800 - 1950s. If anyone has books or article suggesti... | eli5_question_answer | {
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On a birth certificate that was requested for my grandmother (born in Czechoslovakia in 1927) in 1941. She is of German decent and believe the document might have been requested as proof of this. The religion is listed as "er.a.r", what does this mean? | [
"Okay, first off, what you've got there is a Slovak birth certificate, as evident by the Slovak national insignia on the top left, which fits the time frame, as Czechoslovakia didn't exist in 1941 and Tiso was in power in the newly created Slovak State.. The ev. a.v., as somebody already guessed is just shorthand f... | [
"You couldn't really denounce Judaism, as you are Jewish by Birth, meaning when your mother was a Jew so were you. The Nazis went to all extremes so you had to prove (with birth certificates and copies from other registries such as the Catholic church's) that you were in fact not Jewish by blood. Whether or not you... | eli5_question_answer | {
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Question about this subbreddit | [
"Can I ask why you'd self-describe as a 'tankie'? I would have thought from your point of view it would be perjorative."
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Are there any books that take you on a chronological journey through the time rather than just a bunch of facts about a particular period? | [
"Laugh if you want, but I couldn't recommend the [Cartoon History of the Universe](_URL_0_) series highly enough. Don't let the medium throw you off, it is a pretty reasonable summary of history from the Big Bang to now, spanning a number of volumes. It absolutely fits your two main criteria, namely keeping you gri... | [
"Where can I find books about travelers or explorers throughout history? I've read and enjoyed primary accounts, The Journals of Lewis and Clark, a little bit from Richard Burton, Marco Polo, John Mandeville (I realize the author probably didn't travel farther than his local library), and I plan on reading Ibn Batt... | eli5_question_answer | {
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We have had this black/copper tube with Russian inscriptions lying around our house for years. Anybody knows what it is? | [
"Looks like a fuse. The thinner bits of the strip inside are the part that melt when the current gets too high."
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"It looks a lot like a lock I used to have... hard to tell from the pics. I think they were sold to tourists in the Middle East. Mine was inherited from my grandmother."
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How would George Washingtons body react to him eating a double quarter pounder from McDonalds with fries and a large drink? | [
"Probably [this](_URL_0_). [Warning: NSFL] If you don't know about the documentary \"Super Size Me\", a health nut decides to do an experiment: he is going to eat only at McDonalds, and any time a cashier asks him if he wants to 'super size' the order, he has to say yes. The clip above is what happens the first tim... | [
"It can be healthy or unhealthy.If you get the six inch oven roasted chicken with no cheese, veggies and a low fat/low calorie sauce(mustard) it will be healthy. Replace that with a footlong, add cheese, mayo, and a large spa soda on the side, and you might as well visit McDonald's"
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How did workmen get their plaster so smooth? | [
"Practice. Plastering is a perfect example of one of those things where you see a pro do it and it looks easy, but when you try to do it yourself, it turns out to be impossible."
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"They cut it in half and count the rings."
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Is there a "If America never intervened" map? | [
"Well, there's not just one, there's many — and they're all equally valid. Human relations are chaotic. Change one item in an ancestor-descendant chain (and I'm talking of nations too, not just people), and you alter those descendants in unpredictable ways. The map I just drew on a paper towel would be just as vali... | [
"Just asked this in the other sticky, but maybe this is the better place for it: Does anyone have any good book recommendations about the Nigerian Civil War or about Biafra as a country?"
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What motivated the Clinton administration to expand NATO in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union? How badly did this hurt US-Russia diplomacy? | [
"I'd take time to consider the wishes of the states who joined NATO. I've noticed that many people look at it strictly from an imperialist perspective, either American or Russian. But what did the people and leaders of Estonia, Latvia, etc., think about joining NATO? Make sure to incorporate them in your paper."
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"First off, Putin has acted in ways more akin to the Soviets during the Cold war than any leader since the fall of the USSR, such as invading Ukraine, having opposition politicians and journalists killed. Secondly, the evidence suggest it's not about being best friends or equal super powers with them, but Russia ga... | eli5_question_answer | {
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What do you think of Crash Course World History? | [
"There are [multiple questions](_URL_0_) in the FAQ about this."
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"Absolut Vodka Porsche Nokia Sony Nintendo Off the top of my head. Ever hear of any of them?"
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How do I find someone that vanished from the history books? Can I even do it? | [
"You might consider asking in /r/genealogy: they may have several ideas for you"
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"And more importantly how do I get one for myself?"
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When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon was there a bridge, or did he have to wade across? | [
"According to Suetonius they crossed a small bridge over the Rubicon. Specifically, he claims Caesar said \"Once across that little bridge, we shall have to fight it out.\" However, it should be kept in mind that Suetonius was writing in around 121 CE. This was a long time after the events had transpired and his de... | [
"On a boat, you can have thousands of pounds of goods and don't need anyone to carry it. It's floating. Your crew can sleep while you continue moving. You don't need to brave the incredibly brutal terrain of Egypt. You don't need to feed and care for the hundreds of animals that may be needed to carry your cargo ho... | eli5_question_answer | {
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About to begin studying History at University. Anything I should know? | [
"Start the essays asap, because they tend to creep up quite quickly and then you find the library has been emptied of books Also lots of stuff you learnt in school will be wrong, and what you probably consider a history book is not in fact a history book Take a broad range of modules from a variety of periods in ... | [
"Is it against the rules to ask for book recommendations on this topic? if not I would like to do so."
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Please join us in /r/HistoryNetwork this afternoon for a historical IAMA Pvt. (Retired) Tommy Atkins, a British veteran of the Great War. | [
"I'm confused... Is this a fictional AMA or what? If so, what is it doing here?"
] | [
"No. They were in Italy at the time, having just captured Rome. If you are particularly interested in the 1st SSF, I would highly recommend Anne Hicks' \"The Last Fighting General: The Biography of Robert Tryon Frederick\". He was the first commander of the unit and an amazing officer."
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What would life be like as a court Jester in the Middle Ages? | [
"A famous jester of the 18th century in Germany was [Perkeo of Heidelberg.](_URL_3_) Perkeo (a shortening for the Italian version of 'why not?') was a dwarf famous for his ability to consume massive amounts of alcohol, supposedly always replying with his name whenever asked if he would like a drink. Heidelberg is ... | [
"The Middle Ages is a pretty huge period that spanned centuries, so you might want to refine your question. The daily life of a monarch in the 8th century was incomparably different from that of a 16th century one."
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