Like a rural Northerner might sympathize with the secession while an urban Southerner might be against it.

Hello, I’m currently a high schooler trying to size down my options of what I want to do after high school. I have a few areas I really enjoy but the one I’m most passionate about is studying WWI. I was wondering if it’s easy to make a living out of being a historian specific to this field. I’m not really interested in being a teacher but steer more towards a museum/archivist sort of deal. And how easy is it to become one, specifically if I’m a female living in the United States?

I’m not religious. However, I appreciate art. Last year we went to the Vatican. It was breathtaking. All the art on the walls was stunning and I couldn’t tell it some things were carved or painted. We saw statutes and paintings of Cherubs, who are obviously boys. We go into the Vatican and walk the halls full of paintings and I noticed that there were seemingly no male angles. There were some in recognizable biblical scenes, but I counted only a handful. All the others were women! There were hundreds! Is this due to the interpretation of the Bible at the time or artistic choice? I’m curious!

Is it fully known what he did besides fratricide and mass kidnappings/r*pes?

I know that my Korean grandfather used to be fluent in Japanese, and Koreans underwent name changes - encouraged to adopt a Japanese name instead of Korean one. There was a Japanese propaganda called "naisen ittai" - in other words "the unity of Japanese and Korean people"

In the school system and military system, Koreans were trained to speak, think, and act as a Japanese person. And the Japanese often actively damaged Korean cultural heritage and artefacts

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But I didn't see a lot of articles that described what happened here as "cultural genocide"

How do historians discuss this? Does this qualify as cultural genocide?

I cant seem to find any books dedicated to dessert history. Does anyone know of any good books that explain historical desserts?

Both where Celtic peoples who had High Kings and those titles were overthrown by English invasions; why was Scotland independent at the 1600s and Ireland under English domination?

I didn’t want to impose by asking for a detailed description of the life of a hunter in 1600s England so figured I’d ask for a book about the subject instead. Plus that would have more detail of course.

But after I read the mods message I realized this request for a book isn’t the exact purpose of the sub so I’d be happy to hear any info y’all can offer about the subject as well.

Appreciate it.

I’m intrigued!

I was reading an article claiming that the Israelites practised Yahwism originally. After the Babylonian exile, they thought Yahweh was angry with them and decided to appease Yahweh by denouncing the other gods and rewriting the books to be monotheistic, giving us the Hebrew bible as we know it.

I was wondering if this theory was based on any evidence, thanks.

I've read from a couple of sources that in the 12th century, Constantinople had a significant Muslim population that managed to live pretty normal lives. These sources didn't seem the most trustworthy though, so I'm wondering whether this is accurate. Would the 1st Crusade not have been a cause of tension? There was also something about a popular mosque that was destroyed by the 4th Crusade, but I can't tell whether this is a rumor or if there's significant documentation to back it up. Details like that would be appreciated. Thanks for your help!

It doesn't have to be a ground breaking discovery, it could just be a little detail that raises questions about what we've previously thought.

According to the New York Times:

For his first four years in office, President Ronald Reagan had a tough time forging any kind of relationship with his counterparts in the Soviet Union. “They kept dying on me,” he later explained. It fell to his vice president, George H.W. Bush, to attend the funerals. “You die, I fly” became Bush’s wry motto.

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Why did the US send such senior delegations to the funerals of the leaders of the Soviet Union, its principal global antagonist and a country which Reagan described as the "evil empire" and as "the focus of evil in the modern world"?

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Disclaimer: I know what atrocities they committed and by no means am a fan of what they did. This is solely a question about the war. While some may notice this account is new, I have really been trying to resist the temptation to join this app as it was addictive even before I signed up (you can browse without an account). I am not a troll, and know the world is better without genocidal regimes in power.

Sorry if this is the wrong sub, but I read about history as a hobby, and World War II fascinates me the most. However, sometimes I read and feel like the real reason the Axis lost was their mistakes.

Some examples of what I mean are: Hitler’s goal, as stated in Mein Kampf, was to take land from the Soviet Union, and there was a fear, if not a hatred, of communism already in western Europe and the United States. He never wanted to fight the western powers, so why didn’t he try to become allies with them? I could be wrong, but didn’t Britain have a positive view of him before the aggression began? And no, I’m not counting the appeasement as the positive view. Other mistakes include Italy being completely unprepared for a larger war after they went back to Ethiopia in 1935, as well as Germany neglecting the Kriegsmarine but even still having a chance to win the Battle of Britain with more manpower for the Luftwaffe than the Royal Air Force had, but Hitler let his emotions cloud his judgement after the bombing of Berlin and went after civilian areas rather than focusing on taking down the RAF and its capabilities to fight back. From what I’ve read, the Soviets were ready to join the Axis some point during the winter of 1940-1941, but Hitler ignored them and launched operation Barbarossa the moment the summer began. He went on to make numerous blunders there as well. Then Japan attacking Pearl Harbor despite the US being unable to get public support to join the war unprovoked. I know about the embargo, but couldn’t Japan have just gone south as they did without attacking the US or the Philippines? They were already having trouble pushing inland in China. Even after Japan attacked, I don’t think Germany or Italy were bound by any pact to declare war on the United States.

Aside from these mistakes, the Axis appeared to have the advantage and seemed to be on the track to victory.

Sorry for the long post, but I think the loss of the Axis was of its own making. Also hope I’m not breaking any rules by discussing a potential Axis victory, but I’m genuinely curious.

I recently went to the Buffalo History Museum. They had an excellent Native American Gallery which focused on the formation and evolution of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

So I was surprised after some informal research (Wikis & YouTube) to find out that the Haudenosaunee warred upon and supplanted the Native Americans who were in Western New York previously. This happened during the Beaver Wars of the 1650s.

So what happened to the Erie & Wenro Native Americans?

Looking for good concise Armenian history books (premodern to modern), not books about the genocide

I have a jewish friend who has stated that the polish were particularly anti-semitic, and therefore the poles rated out jews more often that most other ethnic groups, but as I understood it before it was mainly a result of a higher german presence and focus. Which one of us, if any, is right? Or are both reasons compatible?

I’m curious how production was managed given how at that point armies were bigger than they ever had been before and bigger armies obviously means more muskets need to be produced.