So i heard that DEE and Kelley are the one's who kinda raised and educated him .. idk i am interested to know the relationship between the 3 of them
(Also is it true that Kelley was teaching him the enochian)

Where than any attempts to stop The Statue of Liberty from oxidizing? Would the government ever consider restoring it?

I wonder if there were some common themes or conditions that led to the rise of the city states in the past.

The rise of cities or towns seems someone well documented But the move from urban to a political or govermental entity is less clear to me.

If question is too broad, perhaps europe or italy evolution is a narrowing.

For example, when the story of Achilles was told, was it presented as "one day in history" or "long, long ago"?

Hello all, I'm a first-year uni student and I'm struggling with this. I need to read 3/4 books for an essay I plan to write, but lack the time to do so, what's the trick to be able to draw out the information I need without having to read cover to cover.

Many thanks to those who comment

Hi all,

I've always found American politics fascinating, even though I have a fairly basic knowledge of it.

As an Englishman, we don't get taught anything about American politics/history, and a lot of the sources I try to read from online tend to have a lot of unfamiliar jargon or require more background knowledge than I possess.

What really interests me, is a trend I've seen looking at the electoral college maps for each election from the mid to late 1800s until 1964. In the mid to late 1800s, I saw a general trend of the North voting Republican and the South voting Democrat, with a couple of exceptions where one party won in an absolute landslide, such as FDR over Hoover etc. In 1928, Herbert Hoover won the majority of the country, apart from the Southern belt of Louisiana, through Alabama, Arkansas etc, through to South Carolina, all states that today we associate as absolute Republican strongholds where the Democrats have zero chance. Over the time, the North voting Republican swapped with the South voting Democrat.

My question is, in as basic layman terms as possible, what were the reasons and policies that made the North formerly vote Republican, the South formerly vote Democrat, and then what caused the change, particularly the South dramatically flipping in 1964 and never looking back?

Thanks all!

I know this is a million-dollar question, but as I'm in my first year of uni and have never really dealt with historiography before, would the structure be similar to that of a normal history essay, or would it differ and how?

When I first started reading about and enjoying history, i was a small book on the RMS Titanic from my schools library. The interest in ships started my interest in history, as I'd scuttle the room for any books involving ships. Luckily for me, one day the image of men on a landing craft caught my attention, and I'd soon find myself reading graphic novels based entirely around WW2. After that I was soon picking up any and all books on the subject, and began to actively study it (the 6th grade equivelent of just actually reading a large book and managing not to yawn). That is until puberty hit, and I began to find comfort in videogames and shit (and still do).

Now I'm in my Junior year of highschool, I know now I'd love to teach History, and much of my values and understanding in life comes from history, hell my political ideology (that i could care less about that I make it sound) was formed off observations from the past, and not the dumb "statics" thing so many subscribe to today (look at me, all high and mighty, ohhhh, I watched a 20 minute YouTube video on WW2, ooohhh~). I'm also in On Ramps U.S history, where we are less taught the subject, and more form opinions and ideas based off primary sources (secondary as well) given too us, as well as articles such as The American YAWP and readings from Howard Zinn.

I've even made a friend in the country I wish to move too and study in, and hopefully some day even teach in who's going into the same field of teaching as me, who makes me feel dumb because she has a room chalked full of books, and I only have like 3 books next to my bed in the living room.

So that's my oragin story, why I quit, and why I'm back here today asking for advice on the subject.

I have a wide array of intrests. Everything from World War Two to the fall of Rome. European history from the beginning of time, to very specific stuff like Prohbition America. My favorite period of world history being 1850 (and events before that lead up) and to the 1950's (and how the events in that time effect us today)

Even stuff like politics, and how we can look to the past for advice and understanding today. I enjoy some over others, but all I know is I have two objectives. Two goals to start learning history, if I did all my goals, I'd have 20. Get a job as a history teacher, learn to tell the entire history of Prohbition without looking at a book, understand the politics behind world war one, know why the crimean war happened, list twelve historical figures not in U.S history books, so on. But two goals to start learning history.

Goal 1) Stop relying on little shit like Small YouTube videos and memes for information. I'm out of that quirky history phase using what little I know and joking about it.

Goal 2) Make sure when I move to a house, get an actual room to myself, I want to be able to fill one book shelf, 6 feet tall minimum, nearly reaching my roof maximum, of history books around the eras I love and know.

That's all I know. So I ask this. Any advice for a novice historian? Any stories of what you did? I'm not asking for direct answers, this is a very open ended post, just experience, or what to look at.

Any response is great! And thank you in advance, even if you just read this :)

For instance, why was most of Aristotle translated, but all we have of Plato is The Republic? What of the Pre-Socratics, Greek histories, Homer, etc.? The Greek and Syriac cannons are large; what was the criteria for selecting which texts got translated, and which did not? Are there are any texts which were translated but haven't survived?

This excludes stuff like wikipedia and quora.

I've always thought it would be really cool to speak sumerian fluently

Also, this is not just about those languages, if there are historians speaking with each other in Celtic, Coptic or any other dead language I want to know

From my perspective, castles are safer, the larger they are. My reasoning for this is that a larger castle has more internal space to use, more space would mean more storage, more houses, and more people able to survive in the castle. This would mean a larger army could reside in the castle, meaning the attacking force would also have to scale up. Going for an even larger castle could mean that crops would be produced from inside the castle! making the castle able to "survive" forever.

Say a regular, historical castle could house up to 600 soldier, why wouldn't someone build an entire country within a castle that could house 30.000 soldiers? I understand a larger wall means more flaws and weak points, but a large inner city army would be able to assist at a section of the wall that would be under attack.

Furthermore a small castle is completely non functional as soon as a force attacks them, a large castle only has to prevent a big attacking force from entering. Small amounts of attacking forces that would be able to sneak their way in could be dealt with by the internal army rather quickly. The castle could also continue trading through other gatehouses which are kilometres apart from each other, and the size is just too large for any besieger to surround the entirety of the structure.

Any insights would be very helpful, also feel free to point out any factors I have forgotten, missed, of interpreted incorrectly.

Hey all, hope you're doing well.

In the first year of uni and have been given work to write a historiography essay on any event or subject of interest. My first thought was the Vietnam war, pretty easy one there; but also I've been reading The Art of War by Sun Tzu, would it be possible to write a high(ish) quality essay on historiography surrounding the book? is there even historiography to be found?

I'm not looking for anyone to write an essay for me, or even help me find sources, I'm just asking if historiography can be written about for any object, event or writing, not just major events in history

Thanks to anyone who replies :)

I heard from elsewhere that Al Gore technically won but somehow George W. Bush won through intrigue somehow. I am not American so I don't really understand the context. What happened in the 2000 USA election?

The Aztecs and Incas, for example, never allowed women to go into war. This was also the case for China, the ancient Middle East and North Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. I'm confused. Why would women across the globe not be allowed to fight in war?

We know the story history likes to go with, at least. But I know that the idea of the "great fire that killed everyone in it" could solely be myths perpetuated by Kyoto nobles when they saw it happen (Kyoto was pretty close to the site, no doubt it would look violent.)

I read somewhere (In Nobunaga no Chef, loll) that an archeological dig had been conducted where they found that there were no skeletal remains or a "strata of burnt earth from the period, as would be expected."

-- And that there supposedly weren't many people on the mountain at the time. (Which makes sense to me.)

Although I'm assuming any articles/books where I could read more about this would be in Japanese and hard for me to find.

I'm convinced already that a large part of what people think happened on Mt. Hiei was exaggerated (probably because that's what Nobunaga wanted people to think, when he razed the temples) but are there more sources that go in-depth into this? Whether books by Japanese authors or western authors, or... even any helpful articles online?

• Did French culture in Canada actually changed little in those 200 years ?
• Are those his directs words or a shortened interpretation of his thoughts ?
• Could he have been biased in his observation ? He is himself British and (from what I read) worked using committees that were populated by political adversaries of the rebellious Patriots.

Someone commented to me how some historians claim that the Medieval Period really starts with the rise of the Islamic Kingdoms, rather than with the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Are there similar heteredox theories and dates for other important events, such as the world wars?

I was doing some research on old University of Maryland football schedules and I found that UMD used to frequently play St John's College, a small liberal arts school in Annapolis. Between 1892 and 1937, the two schools played 29 times. But, after 1937, St. John's disappears from UMD's schedule, and I can find no information on them after that. St. John's no longer has a football program; in fact, they don't have intercollegiate athletics at all. Basic Googling has provided no answers, so I'm curious - when did St. John's stop sponsoring football, and why?