I'm considering what career I would like to pursue and becoming a historian sounds interesting since I've been fascinated with history for as long as I can remember. While trying to research this career, I found out that there are academic historians and public historians. Being a public historian sounds better for me, but I'm curious about what the everyday life is like for these kinds of historians. I think I'm specifically interested in ones that work in museums, but I'd also like to know what other options are like. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Edit: I just thought of another question I'd like to add. How competitive are jobs in this field? Thanks!
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What was leftism before Marx and Engels
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I taught the Mongol's created the Silk Road.
why the Vikings Series are talking about Silk Road in Season 6 when Vikings years are somewhere in 900s and Mongols are during 1200s??
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After the 8th century the Roman Empire did not hold the city of Rome. Did people acknowledge this fact at the time? Were there ever any talks about renaming the state?
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I have "On War" by Clausewitz but I don't know what my next book should be.
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From what I grew up learning, the entire abolition movement seemed to be based on the moral argument. So aside from the immoral aspects of slavery, was it understood that there could be a negative economic impact to giving up slavery on the entire region? If so were there attempts to ameliorate those impacts in order to convince the South to give up the institution?
Seems like I worded my question in an odd and confusing way. Also this is an purely academic question and not motivated by politics or anything decisive. Here is an updated wording of the question.
As I understand it, slavery was the backbone of the South's economy. I am merely curious if there were any attempts to coerce the south to abandon slavery on it's own through economic intensives?
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If we are currently using a calendar divided into years, months days and so forth; how did they establish what year it was prior? Surely they didn't have a 753 bce or such. So how did they set years/divide years up?
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In other words, for instance, would most Romans living in c. 300 AD have perceived the Empire as being ‘better’ than it had been ~50 years prior (c. 250)?
In case it’s unclear, I’m not inquiring as to the extent which the Empire actually recovered in the 50 years following end of the Crisis of the Third Century, but rather the extent to which it was perceived to have recovered by the Romans who lived during the era.
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Video here: YouTube link He starts talking about it around 9:30.
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These were said to be tests where uranium was detonated underground in quantities insufficient to create a nuclear explosion, but enough to provide useful data for nuclear weapon modeling. I vaguely recall that these were done from the 1970s to the 1990s at least. Does actions have any information about this?
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I'm curious if any common foods (wild foods, fruits/vegetables/crops, animal products or prepared dishes) that were once ubiquitous in past civilizations have totally disappeared in the present day. Are they lost because their ingredients are no longer cultivated? Have they been displaced by other fare? Or do we simply not know what they were, or how they were made?
I'd be especially curious if there have been any staples (I'm thinking like rice in Ancient China, maize in Mesoamerica, wheat in the Fertile Crescent) that have been lost or abandoned over time.
I'd be interested in any foods or drinks from any corner of the globe from any period in history!
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When our friends in Deal UK had died i helped the family to clean out the shed and found this old tatty Sailor hat from the famous ship HMS Amethyst.
It turned out that our friend Una had been engaded to a Sailor on the ship and was told he had been killed. she then met and married another man her first husband named Alan. one day someone was at her door bell and when she opened the Door it was the man she had been engaged to it turned out that he had survived and he then gave her his hat as memory. This should have happened During WW2.
The family cant remember the Sailor name what we would like to know if there is any list over who was enlisted on the ship. Cheers/ L
Here's a pic of the hat.
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The (mostly) British blockade of Germany during WW1 was crippling for the German war economy, yet the blockade during WW2 is not discussed with the same importance. Was it a wasted effort after Hitler’s European conquests?
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Newspaper articles state that tobacco was grown in a small settlement near me, and I was wondering if this can date the age of the settlement? Sources imply that the settlement was settled sometime before 1787. Was tobacco still being grown in the mid-1700s?
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I'm specifically thinking about Hungary and the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. How was this subject taught in schools in the Hungarian People's Republic that lasted from 1949 to 1989? Was Bela Kun considered to be a hero, considering he was purged by Stalin?
If you have other examples of the vision of Soviet Satellite States on previous communist movements, like the GDR with Thallmann or Luxemburg, I would be really interested to see how they reflected on this legacy.
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Hi so the title is pretty self-explanatory, and this is a rather specific ask. I'm writing a story about a girl who's parents have died in the 1950's, England. i know nothing about what the care system was back then, and google isn't much help so far! Thanks
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How did the infantry operate on the battlefield in the beginning of the war? Was a squad the smallest unit fighting on the battlefield or did soldiers operate in larger units like in previous century? How the communications between frontline units and higher officers looked like? Were machineguns so deadly weapons in the first months of the war? These are the aspects which I find interesting because there are not many depictions of those first battles in culture.
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When 1984's "Threads" (quick plot summary available on Wikipedia for those who haven't seen it – and if you want to, be advised that it really is grim) aired on BBC it managed to catch an audience of no less than 6.9 million people, and viewers would later refer to the occasion as "The night that Britain didn't sleep". "Threads" shows a young and pretty regular couple from Sheffield, UK, that is just trying to cope with their own lives until one day World War III starts seemingly out of nothing and obliterates the country. What follows is a relentless, gruesome depiction of the aftermath of the nuclear attack, including plenty of violence, starvation, disease, and the endless fight for survival.
The movie is said to have had a massive impact on the peace movement of the 80s, but what about the leading politicians of the time? What did people like Margaret Thatcher or Neil Kinnock think of the movie, do we know whether they watched it? Did it have any impact on them?
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