I know that Runciman's book is considered outdated but exactly which of his ideas are wrong (other than what is said in the Wikipedia Assessment section)

I know that it turned green over time due to oxidation, but was it intended to be allowed to oxidize or was the US supposed to keep it polished?

Thermopylae is propably the thing the SPartans are most famous for. The modern image of Sparta is heavily influenced by this battle, how did is shape the Spartans' own identity?

Looking at the imjin war, it seems like turtle ships are incredibly amazing vehicles of war. The ability to drive off boarding parties and protect your deck crew would have undoubtedly been nice for atleast some naval operations. Why didnt these vessels see wider use. Why is there not one account of a european, Malay, or chinese turtles?

Ive recently been doing some light-learning about the pre-Caesar and rise-of-Caesar time frames within Roman history and have been stumbling upon alot of discussion about bribery, wealth accumilation through foreign conquest, and tax collection. Additionally there seems to be no mention of any sort of official banking system as well as the obvious, no form of elecronic or "paper" representations of wealth.

I am curious how individuals such as Crassus (or even the official treasury as well) maintained, stored, and transferred their wealth around the Republic. Did they maintain their own sorts of private quasi-banks and vaults to hold their vast physical wealth?

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As the title says I am looking for a book that gives a broad explanation of East Asian morals as well as a comparison to European thinking in this area. I was hoping someone could recommend a book that is neither to focused on one or two particular aspects and therefore lacks a broad perspective, nor overgeneralizes and simplifies these complex issues too much.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated

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This symbol comes out of no where where it was previously mostly used by racial extremists in small clubs along with in India etc as a hindu symbol. So what was the reaction to this sudden sharp cut off of historic German flags and iconography?

Given that Japan were already on the verge of surrendering, and the US knowing too well the devastation these bombs could and would cause, dropped them on a foreign land anyway. 140,00 died in Hiroshima and a further 75 thousand in Nagasaki.

Japan’s Emperor Hirohito addressed the nation on a radio broadcast where he blamed the use of a “new and most cruel bomb” for Japans unconditional surrender.

He added: “Should we continue to fight, it would not only result in the ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but would lead also to the total extinction of human civilisation.”

One must wonder, what positives if any came out of dropping those bombs and cruelly killing a quarter of a million men, women and children.

Is this America’s greatest achievement to date? obliterating almost a quarter of a million Japanese innocents?

Context: I am writing my master's thesis on gender in gaming culture and need a small footnote to place my studies in the larger culture of the time and cannot find many good authors who conceptualize gender in the 70s.

Looking back on my knowledge of the Cold War, there seem to be continual well-contested arms races in several areas of major military technology, such as strategic bombers, nuclear weapons, ICBMs, submarines, etc. But I don't know of any serious attempts by the Soviet navy to field a fleet of supercarriers akin to the USN Nimitz class and its predecessor and successor designs.

Fast forward to today, and the US still maintains a peculiar advantage in this one area of military power, even though other major powers have striven to develop equivalent capabilities in so many other areas of defense technology.

So my question is, did the USSR try and fail to field supercarriers in large numbers? Or did it just not see them as a priority in their military strategy?

Considering the Japanese war economy and strategic war aims were so dependent on merchant shipping and sea-going troop transports, why did the IJN perform so poorly against raiding Allied submarines? Their own wartime ally Germany's entire naval strategy was based on commerce raiding, and their own submarine fleet was not inconsiderable, so it seems they should have been aware of the risks of enemy submarine attack.

We’ve seen plenty of documentaries on how allied POWs were treated by Nazi forces but I’m wondering about how it played out with Nazi POWs?

How likely is it the US used disease spreading weapons in the Korean war? I read an aljazera article once that suggested that it is highly likely that they did but it seems like it's a subject which is still up for debate. Would love to hear some historians thoughts.

At face value China is obviously much bigger than Japan but wouldn't military attaches have a more intimate view of both sides and see how antiquated and hodgepodge the Chinese military was? Compared to the far more uniform and modern(although untested) Japanese military.

Hindsight is 20\20 but surley military experts with an indepth look at both sides see that Japan's military more closely resembled their Western counterparts.

Probably a stupid question. Jesus being (likely incorrectly) depicted as white years after his death made me wonder this.

Hi all, I’m trained as a medievalist and historian of technology, but in Spring I’m going to be teaching American History 1877-Present. Can anyone help me put together a reading list? I want to focus a lot on race, labor, technology and industrialization, imperialism, and religious movements in addition to the broad outline.

So far I’ll be reading the norton textbook, Jill Lepore, These Truths Howard Zinn, A People’s History Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire

Your help is much appreciated!

I also understand that the Ohio-based company Elmer's did release some innovative synthetic glues in the 1940's shortly before this song was written, but from a brief search I see no connection with this period of Elmer's history to the state of New Jersey.

Also, are there other examples of commonly-held state stereotypes that have evolved or were lost across the decades?