Who were the people behind the library? Was there a motive behind the burning? What what was the damage to the library and what do you think was lost there?

I assume it has something to do with the natural materials available in the Americas, but how come indigenous cultures couldn’t develop roughly similar technology using the materials at hand?

I know American forces committed atrocities against civilian populations in the Pacific. Yet they never did anything on the scale of the rape of Nanking. But then I read about American attitudes towards the Japanese at the time, which some have called borderline genocidal. And then I hear of the sheer horror of the fighting. From what I understand the Rape of Nanking and various other atrocities happens because the Japanese forces had fought a grueling campaign against the Chinese, who they held to be racial inferiors, and took their frustration out on the civilian population. That seems similar to the circumstances the US Army encountered on Okinawa, the prior battles had been brutal but the Americans hadn’t encountered a large population of Japanese civilians. So what was it that made the Americans react in a relatively humane way?

Hi I’m Irish I’m curious as to what he historians think of Irish English history why don’t the English history books talk about the atrocities they caused to the Irish people etc just curious

I’ve seen conflicting historical accounts about this, and I’m not sure where the conflict is coming from. In “Clean: A History a Personal Hygeine,” Virginia Smith talks at length about Tudor period bathing and cleansing noting plumbing for baths in Henry VIII’s Hampton court, bathing practices for more common folk, and noting that public bath houses were closed later in his reign.

However, Ruth Goodman, specializing in domestic history, has mentioned that during the Tudor period people were afraid of miasmas and would avoid wet baths so would comb their hair clean and wipe with dry cloth. I’ve heard this specifically as something ascetics grappled with, but not the common person.

Does anyone know more?

Looking at their general election summaries, throughout the 1900s the communist party never broke more then 10%. Even throwing in the socialist parties and that total doesn’t seem to go over 15%. Considering India was and still is largely agrarian, and at the very least much of the population in lower classes and poverty, I feel like that would be the perfect combination for a much larger communist movement. This is my second time asking, and hopefully someone can answer! Thank you!

I see these right wing protests against what seen like basic public health measures and I wonder if this was also true in 1918-1919 under the banner of supposed extinguishing liberties?

EDIT: Also interested in any history related to other measures like social distancing and lockdowns.

If a Native American in the early 1800s decided they wanted to leave tribal life behind and voluntarily join the United States, would they of been able to? How would life of been and what rights would they of been afforded? Obviously I'm sure they would be heavily prejudiced against, but would they legally been a US citizen?

We have examples of steel hard enough to stop bullets while light enough to wear for an extended period of time; We saw it with Ned Kelly, German machinegunners in WWI, Soviets in WWII. Why are steel trauma plates, and plate carriers for that matter, a modern phenomena?

Was is it a previously unkown steel refinement practice that allowed this? Was it seen as cost prohibitive?

These plates are everywhere these days, and cheap too.

I don't know if this is the right place for this but I was thinking about this question for a while. Now I dont know that much about Mormonism so if someone could explain the reasoning behind the practice of polygamy in Mormonism that would be great. I understand the practice in Islam (I'm a muslim) but just want to get an understanding about its role in Mormonism. More importantly why a Muslim today hasn't really decided to have multiple spouses in Utah where the practice is generally accepted.

I need to know this for a school project, and I can't find numbers online. Also, was the difference between the number of troops a substantial amount?

Hi, I recently read a book that talked about Napoleon's use of the column formation for attacking, as opposed to the line formation . Was this really a game changing tactic? And is anyone able to explain how it worked? Thanks.

Hey, I was just looking at the TV series Vikings and there's this character called Hvitserk, a son of Ragnar Lodbrock, wich in season 5 ditches his northern gods and becomes a Buddhist. Now my question are: how likely is that? And if that happened how did viking society react to such a different religion? Also how did people in the high middle ages reacted to buddhism, did they just burned or expelled the believers of this religion like the did with Jewish people?

Hi all! as you can tell from the title, I am looking for academic literature regarding Romanticism and it's influence on 20th Century Politics. Specifically, nationalism, radicalism, and conservatism. Which, more or less became mutually exclusive to the rise of Nazism & Fascism. Thanks in advance!

I'm reading Noah Feldman's Scorpions at the moment and just got the section about Adamson v. California; from the text:

The important question raised by Adamson's case was whether the Fifth Amendment applied in state court. If it did, Adamson's conviction would be reversed. If not, he would be executed.

The Supreme Court decided against Adamson. The Bill of Rights had been added to the Constitution as a check on the federal government, not the states. The only way one of those rights could be applied in state court would be if it were "fundamental to the concept of ordered liberty"--so basic that no system could be considered just if that right were not recognized. According to the opinion in Adamson's case, written by Justice Stanley Reed, there was nothing fundamental about the right not to have a prosecutor tell the jury it could infer guilt from the defendant's silence.

He goes on to discuss Justice Black's dissent in the case, that the "Constitution... demand that all the guarantees in the Bill of Rights be applied against the states." Though Black's opinion was a dissent, it seems to me that it's the prevailing view today: "...every action by a state government, including every conviction in a state court, would have to be reviewed to see if it complied with the Constitution."

Has constitutional law changed that much in the last seventy years? I guess I'd never been under the impression before that in the past, the Amendments in the Bill of Rights could be selectively applied in state court. It would seem to completely undermine the purpose of something like the Thirteenth Amendment if it can be selectively applied.

Was there a significant difference in how Rome Romanised the two provinces, with Latin having a wider spread or usage in Gaul?

Or is it that without the Anglo Saxon settlement and spread of Old English, Brythonic languages would have died off under a Latin elite in Britannia and "British" would have been another Romance language?

Or is there another reason?

Did it originate with an intentional propaganda campaign by the Nazis, or did it happen later?

Was it by river then over mountains? How did he make it that far without getting killed before getting to Cajamarca?

My great grandfather died in world war 2 fighting on September 23rd in eloyes, France. He wrote a letter to family in sept 16th with a new address to company m 143rd (he was in the 36th infantry). 3 days later he wrote saying he was in a machine gun platoon and reminded my great grandmother of his new adress. He also remarked how he was in the real thing now on the front.

In his letter previously last one being July 31st in Italy with the po CO B Inf.

Now I guess what I’m asking is how did replacements work in the us army in the European theatre (specifally operation dragoon)?

And what is the likely he was in this unit co m from the onset of OP DRAGOON, was he in a replacement unit (this co B.) or was co B a seperate unit in the 36th thay he was fighting in?

Any info will Help