What do you think about all these theories about musicians making a deal with the devil himself, as for Niccolò Paganini or Robert Johnson?

Obviously, when I say prosper, I don’t mean it in the sense that colonisation was peaceful and nice for First Nations people. Just curious about what was so different about the colonisation of different regions

In the "Significance of the Frontier in American History", Turner suggested that the frontier was the most important factor in establishing American character. Does it look accurate today? What is the most significant criticism of this theory?

I know he left Venice when he was young and probably didn’t own any property of his own. However, his father and uncle were well known travelers and merchants. They also would be gone for years at a time. So basically what I’m asking is how did these guys maintain finances back at home while they were all over the known world? It’s not as if they could easily send word that they were alive and well. Even if they could, how were they paying their taxes and such? Is it because when they came back they (his uncle and dad) brought so much wealth with them every time they returned that things were covered? I guess the real question is, how did their business work?

I remember hearing that a lot of what we know about Norse mythology came from Iceland long after the Vikings were around: is this true?

My impression is that through most of history doctors didn't actually know much, and might have sometimes caused more harm than good. When did they start being useful?

I was looking through /r/AskHistorians book list and saw this "Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland by G.W.S. Barrow (1965). An older biography, but still a..."

It states it's an older biography but the events occurred 700+ years ago, in that sense is 1965 really an older biography? Is this a generally true statement for history? Has our understanding of events from the past 1000 years grown so much in the past 50 years that a book from the 1960's is considered old?

Recently been watching a bunch of war documentaries - in the middle of Ken Burns’s “The War” at the moment - and was reminded of all the names our aviators gave their planes. Was plane art and naming a uniquely American thing? Is there a history of other nations doing the same thing? I don’t recall a photo of a Luftwaffe plane with any writing on it.

How do I start researching Vikings from Sweden I keep hitting the problem of places not having info available online or needing a academic login

As an adult I am just now learning about what truly happened, and it’s horrifying. Why would this not have been taught in schools when were taught extensively about the holocaust?

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This is my first time posting here, I was watching a video about the various discoveries of the continent but never really understood why the natives were still in the stone age.
The continent was discovered many times yet the natives chose to stay primitive ?

I ask this because I was interested in the Tohokai and other Nazi organizations from Japan before, during, and post World War 2? The Nazis and Japanese admired each other and weren't that different from one another, so it's no stretch the Japanese would adopt a few things from their other Axis counterparts. Did any Japanese openly wear Nazi swastikas?

What about after World War 2? Japan apparently still has a Nazi party.

And furthermore, if it was a real affair/relationship, how might later Augustan or Christian sources have sanitized Caesar’s life to fit a heteronormative narrative?

We have other prominent examples of important Romans who we might consider “Queer” today, but I’m curious if we can authentically view Caesar through that lens.

I'm writing a novel set mainly in London between 1905 and 1910. My characters also travel to Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and Marseilles. There's at once too many and too few sources to consult on what the cities would have looked like, and how a tourist would have tried to get around, and I'd really like to just read one or two comprehensive sources. I'm so far getting my info from random scraps of information on specific aspects and I don't think I'm doing justice to how these places "feel" or in distinguishing one place from another and creating a strong sense of place.

What would be some good books, or documentaries, or travelogues that might give me an idea about what these cities were like in that era?