Preferably an easier read book. Around highschool level Even if the person is not interested in that topic, a book you would recommend to someone who either likes to read or is showing interest in history.

I’m in search of a podcast, audiobook, YouTube series, articles, books, etc on the history of the United States’ public school system.

Specifically its origins and how the system was influenced.

I’ve talked with my dad (who was a public school teacher for 8 years) about some German influence on the US education system. Any specifics on the German or even Nazi influence specifically interests me.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Is it a Myth or a true story ? If it's accurate, how the fact of the sigh came to the population So that it is passed on from generation to generation until now?

If it seems like this question was phrased in an anti-Semitic it was unintentional, I’m just curious why some people don’t like them.

Hi! I know that Russia threw out these 8 years during the rule of Peter I. Basically he just looked at the west and unified the calendar. When did a similar change happen in other countries? Not that long ago I came across someone mentioning this. Thanks!

After his death, Frederick Douglass said of Lincoln “Though Mr. Lincoln shared the prejudices of his white fellow-countrymen against the Negro, it is hardly necessary to say that in his heart of hearts he loathed and hated slavery ...”

Did Lincoln actually show any signs of prejudice?

I have been reading Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. A common theme I’ve found has been that the ruling class, merchants, politicians, and wealthy slave owners, used racism and classism to divide the much larger and poorer lower classes/slaves. Zinn implies that racism and classism were purposeful tools (although initially accidental ones) of the ruling class.

I’m curious what evidence history provides for this type of conspiracy, that is, where the “ruling class” purposefully divides the poor and enslaved using racism and classism to maintain their power. Could it be that racism and classism were more of a coincidence which benefited these rich colonists, and less of a conspiracy, as Zinn implies? I find it hard to believe that the ruling class was capable of executing such a strategy. Below is an excerpt, from pages 54-58 in the chapter “Persons of Mean and Vile Conditions”. Thank you for your time and patience.

By the years of the Revolutionary Crisis, the 1760s, the wealthy elite that controlled the British colonies on the American mainland had 150 years of experience, had learned certain things about how to rule... With the problem of Indian hostility, and the danger of slave revolts, the colonial elite has to consider the class anger of poor whites... as violence and the threat of violence increased, the problem of control became more serious.

And so laws and were passed prohibiting free blacks from traveling to Indian country...Negroes were forbidden from carrying arms, while whites finishing their servitude received muskets...

There was still another control, [the middle class], which became handy as the colonies grew... Those upper classes, to rule, needed to make concessions to the middle class, without damage to their own wealth or power, at the expense of slaves, Indians, and poor whites. This bought loyalty. And to bind that loyalty with something more powerful... the ruling group found... that the language of liberty and equality... could unite just enough whites to fight a Revolution... without ending slavery and inequality.

The United Nations can't have had much time to put in place many bureaucratic institutions or coordinate the compatibility of military equipment across its member nations. So how did all these different countries operate effectively in the Korean War?

At the minimum, I'd think radio equipment, encryption practices, and tactical doctrines would need to be harmonized.

So I’m watching Crash Course World History and this question popped up for me.

Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang Di of the Qin Dynasty became the first ruler of a unified China after a warring states period. That’s why if I google “first emperor of China,” his name will show up first. Makes sense.

However, since China was not always from the beginning a unified state, and the Qin Dynasty wasn’t the first Chinese Dynasty (the Shang or Xia are believed to be the first dynasties and it wasn’t until after a warring states period that the Qin came into power), my question is: how can we consider the Shang or Xia to be Chinese “dynasties” if they didn’t rule all of China like the Qin did? Isn’t the point of a ruling state to rule over all the states?

Additionally, if China wasn’t unified before the Qin came into power, how could there have been ”dynasties” at all? Was China just separate states/city states that fought each other for power, even though they were all “Chinese”?

If China consisted of multiple states during the Shang/Xia dynasties, does this not mean that multiple dynasties/states could have ruled at the same time then, since each Chinese state would have its own rulers and therefore, dynasties?

Like, for example if China had 100 non unified states during the Shang Dynasty, but only one of these states were actually ruled by a group called the Shang, how can we call this period the “Shang Dynasty” if the other 99 states were ruled by those who were NOT the Shang?

Also, who was the very first emperor of the non-unified China then, if it wasn’t Emperor Qin during the Qin Dynasty? But then again, how can you have a singular ruler/emperor of separate states that aren’t united?

Lately I've been hooked on reading about colonial America (and primarily the American revolutionary period). One particular subject I haven't been able to find much on is the hygiene and bathing practices at the time, of which I've read conflicting reports. Can anyone here shed some light on this? Mostly interested in the hygiene practices of the average colonial family in the second half of the 18th century.

Main questions are:

1. How did they (and how often did they) bathe, or otherwise wash themselves?
2. Oral hygiene
3. Hair care and wigs
4. Laundry and care of clothing

Thanks!

Not everyone identifies strongly with their ethnicity or religion. I know many Jews that would consider themselves lots of things before “Jewish.” I think maybe some of my friends know that my dad is Jewish and wouldn’t be surprised if they forgot, because it’s not something that comes up a lot. If it weren’t for our last name, no random acquaintance would guess anything was Jewish about us without being told.

I’ve read many fascinating stories about about how people managed to avoid getting deported to the camps. But did it happen that someone went unnoticed by the nazis, because they didn’t have jewish relatives where they lived, didn’t go to temple, didn’t have a Jewish name, etc?

Myself and my roommate are filming and narrating a video of ourselves exploring the abandoned Partridge Island and want to include as much accurate history as possible.

I have done some preliminary research online and have compiled a rough time line and jotted down some notes. I was wondering if anyone hear had anything to add pr had more insight on the island.

Timeline:

1785-Island first Established as quaratine station, 1812-Gun Batteries Built/military base, 1816-First used as quarantine station, 1830s- first hospital is built on the island, 1840s- Ireland suffers great potato famine, 30k people are processed through partridge, 1196 of which pass away, 1846-Typhus epidemic, 1890s-original celtic cross monument destroyed in WW1, 1927- New celtic cross erected, 1974- Island is declared a historic site

Compiled information:

1830s-1920s 6 mass graveyards were created on island (Protestant, Catholic and Jewish that I know of)

1800s-1947 served as Saint John's Military base

1982-1995 Boat tours hosted to island

1830-1941 used as quarantine station

1955, 1998-1999 buildings are demolished

I was wondering if anyone also had any insight on how much of this is true as we would obviously like the information to be as accurate as possible.