Did they spare them? Or were they merciless anyway?

What efforts where made in a post war Europe and present day to reconnect property, paintings, wine, and more to the rightful owners where possible and what punishments where given to those on the allied side who where caught stealing?

(It breaches army law and the rules of engagement, was it enforced?)

It's not like the art of good illustration was invented during the Renaissance or something. I have seen, for example, Roman wall paintings that are well executed. Yet, in European sources, such as Bibles or martial treaties, the illustrations are almost child like; flat, weird perspectives, the most ridiculous expressions on people being cut to pieces and so on. Why is it that?

I am an undergrad student researching on the bubonic plague in San Francisco from 1901-1906. I am not a history major and the only person I know from that department is my research mentor. She and I have used all of the resources my university has to offer and I could only find newspaper articles from there. I need more documents, ideally government documents or medical documents. It would be very helpful to find notes/reports from the doctor who discovered that the plague had reached San Francisco or diaries from people living during the plague. I don’t know who I should contact to find anything like this. Should I try to find some historians who have specialised in this, contact the local government, libraries or universities and which ones?

I didn't see any questions on this topic. I've read some histories of China and they mention that during the Tang the scholar-gentry supplanted the landed aristocracy as a result of the reinstatement of the examinations and attempts to break up the great estates. However, they don't go into details on the practical differences. the scholar-gentry still own large tracts of land that they passed down to decedents, right? Was the lack of a title the difference? What differences would there be between the fate of a lazy son of the scholar gentry and a lazy son of the aristocracy?

In particular are there any accounts of women having massive problems finding husbands? Or men having an easy time finding wives?

This is something I hear often when I’m listening or reading about Caesar’s campaigns, and I see it even thrown out there as his main focus and strategical advantage. But, I haven’t yet heard specifically what Caesar did that allowed his army to be so fast. The make-up of his army wasn’t especially different from an average Roman force to my understanding, so what was the variable that allowed Caesar to move so quickly?

The only 'sources' for this story I've been able to find are blog posts, reddit posts, and an ebook. This fact is so ludicrous and entertaining that I feel like confirmation from some reliable source would be great. An oft cited Reddit post claims that "Empress Wu Zetian of China made people eat her out if they wanted to talk to her. Even when menstruating. If they couldn’t make her cum, she wouldn’t listen to him. She called it ‘Paying homage to the Lotus Stamen’."

I've come to the experts for Guidance...can't wait to see if this is true!

Please could anyone suggest some books/articles etc on how consumerism shapes identity and behaviour? I have my own ideas but be interesting to read up on existing historiography. Thank you!

My wife has been doing a ton of research on this and I too am interested in an expert opinion. More cultures and people having it in their lore seems to reinforce something like that happened at some point.

This was a scorched earth policy (kill all, loot all, burn all). Wikipedia mentions one historian, Mitsuyoshi Himeta, who claims that, but some internet and library searching has failed to unearth any other historian who agrees with him. My impression is that the claim is an explicit order, and I haven't been able to find work explicitly refuting that. Also, isn't the precise nature and role of the emperor unclear? I've heard contradictory claims and evidence, and like with a lot of other parts of history, it has gotten politicized and used as a tool/weapon for nation building and for points against others. As is usual, nationalists make me very frustrated. Some characterize the emperor as another evil person debating the final solution at the Wannsee Confeference, whereas others paint him as a victim like a bird in a cage. My impressions are that its a bit of both, as when the military coup happened, after the brief period of a pseudocompromise between the civilian government status quo and fascist military regime, the emperor was taken hostage for his own protection (reminds me Dong Zhuo during the fall of the Han Dynasty, and those stories were popular in Japan), and used as a symbol for power (mirroring the Shogunate?), but he wasn't an idol victim and was trying to negotiate and make the best of it, and had his own ambitions for himself and Japan, some of which didn't contradict and even agreed/overlapped.

what happened to US embassy staff in Japan and Germany?

And what happened to German and Japanese embassy staff in the US?

I know this is a much-debated topic in the scholarship, so I'm looking for some pointers on what to read to get the most up-to-date theories. Preferrably anything that's accessible online via Shibboleth since it's not possible to get to libraries right now, but if not that's fine too.

I know that Samurai viewed their sword as an extension of their own soul. What did they do with a broken sword. Did they reforge it? Did they get a new one and that became their soul?

Hi Reddit historians. I have a term paper due in less than ten hours on the 1970's Stagflation Crisis. We're supposed to talk about the causes, and then analyze the actions taken by the government. Do any of you have a good (.gov or .org or another source my teacher would deem trustworthy) source that I can cite that discusses the US responsive policies? I'm having trouble finding cite-able sources.