Okay, I’m kind of confused. So I’m reading Philippa Gregory’s books, I’m kind of bad at history and I’d like to educate myself. I’ve been trying to find answers online but no success. So my question is: are Lancaster Tudors and are Yorks Plantagenet? I thought they were all, like, their own houses but then I found out that Elizabeth of York was Plantagenet. So, is this correct? House of Lancaster - Tudors House of York - Plantagenets
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Hey everyone,
I'm stuck in an apartment in Switzerland as most of you are probably somewhere else (except if you're British, then you're probably fighting zombie apocalypse by now, right?)
My problem is the following: I'm just starting research for my master thesis in the social history of computers (1975 - 1990) but for the next few weeks all the archives in Switzerland are closed and all my beautiful sources are gone.
So can anyone help me to find a good digitalized online source that I can work with? I'm specifically interested in the use of the computer as a tool and toy for hobbyists and the early hacker scene. A digital version of some early computer magazine would be great for example.
Cheers and thx for your help,
nico
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Hello everyone, I'm Dr. Benjamin Park, assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University. I am also co-editor of Mormon Studies Review, and am on the executive boards for Mormon History Association and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. I'm here to talk about Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier (W. W. Norton/Liveright). Here's the overview:
An extraordinary story of faith and violence in nineteenth-century America, based on previously confidential documents from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, treated as fringe cultists at best or marginalized as polygamists unworthy of serious examination at worst. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, the historian Benjamin E. Park excavates the brief life of a lost Mormon city, and in the process demonstrates that the Mormons are, in fact, essential to understanding American history writ large.
Drawing on newly available sources from the LDS Church—sources that had been kept unseen in Church archives for 150 years—Park recreates one of the most dramatic episodes of the 19th century frontier. Founded in Western Illinois in 1839 by the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith and his followers, Nauvoo initially served as a haven from mob attacks the Mormons had endured in neighboring Missouri, where, in one incident, seventeen men, women, and children were massacred, and where the governor declared that all Mormons should be exterminated. In the relative safety of Nauvoo, situated on a hill and protected on three sides by the Mississippi River, the industrious Mormons quickly built a religious empire; at its peak, the city surpassed Chicago in population, with more than 12,000 inhabitants. The Mormons founded their own army, with Smith as its general; established their own courts; and went so far as to write their own constitution, in which they declared that there could be no separation of church and state, and that the world was to be ruled by Mormon priests.
This experiment in religious utopia, however, began to unravel when gentiles in the countryside around Nauvoo heard rumors of a new Mormon marital practice. More than any previous work, Kingdom of Nauvoo pieces together the haphazard and surprising emergence of Mormon polygamy, and reveals that most Mormons were not participants themselves, though they too heard the rumors, which said that Joseph Smith and other married Church officials had been “sealed” to multiple women. Evidence of polygamy soon became undeniable, and non-Mormons reacted with horror, as did many Mormons—including Joseph Smith’s first wife, Emma Smith, a strong-willed woman who resisted the strictures of her deeply patriarchal community and attempted to save her Church, and family, even when it meant opposing her husband and prophet.
A raucous, violent, character-driven story, Kingdom of Nauvoo raises many of the central questions of American history, and even serves as a parable for the American present. How far does religious freedom extend? Can religious and other minority groups survive in a democracy where the majority dictates the law of the land? The Mormons of Nauvoo, who initially believed in the promise of American democracy, would become its strongest critics. Throughout his absorbing chronicle, Park shows the many ways in which the Mormons were representative of their era, and in doing so elevates nineteenth century Mormon history into the American mainstream.
I'll be here for the next few hours (until about 4pm EST) to talk all things Nauvoo and Mormonism, so please flood this thread with questions!
EDIT: this has been incredible! I am warn out after 4 hours and a hundred questions--apologies for the last once being so brief. I tried to answer every one I saw, but I know more our pouring in. I need to go reintroduce myself to my family, but tonight I'll go through and try to answer any questions that I missed.
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I've run through the books The Robber Barrons, Millionaire (about John Law), and I'm currently blazing through Devil Take The Hindmost. But they don't exactly explain the everyday mechanics of schmuck investors (retail investors) buying stocks and trying to make money in the markets. How exactly was it done when someone was looking for a 19th century stockbroker to invest? What about going short the market or derivatives trading, etc?
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Do historians respect it as a source? Is it considered at all? The Bible spans 1500 years so are some areas respected by historians more than others?
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I recently read an article on https://tinyurl.com/yx3j58xq that is about female samurai. However, its references was another site that referenced other sites of dubious academic background.
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I had read, and this might be erroneous, that while their husbands, fathers, and brothers were away at the Crusades or campaigning that their wives would be left to administer the castle or estate. Is this accurate? If so, how would these women have been trained for the task?
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Why did Stalin ally with Nazi Germany, if Hitler stated in his book he hated communists and Slavs?
And also...
If Stalin was bribed with half of Poland if he knew about the Hitler’s hatred to his race political idea, why wasn’t he prepared for a Nazi German invasion?
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Why was the il-2 so armored compared to it's counterparts? With it being a ground attack aircraft, wouldn't all that weight of additional armor reduce the amount of potential offensive weaponry? Or was their philosophy "the best defense is a good offense" approach?
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Yesterday 17 March was the anniversary of the creation of Regno d'Italia.
This action seemed to have triggered an economical change in Italy, at least according to some. Some say the creation of the reign was because of "personal" interests which created a recession of some sort for the Italian southern regions. Political bad administration had part in it.
In what status was the south before, and how and how it changed, if it did? In what status the north? How it changed? Can we identify causes?
Happy to receive information for specific regions or macro areas as well. I understand there might have been considerable geographical differences.
I don't really want to define South, because it might be misleading for the answer. I might consider non-south a region which was crucial for a specific process.
For the sake of the question, and only if this help you guys to define the problem better, South is any region southern than Tuscany and Lazio, non included. Feel free to disregard it, or draw differ boundaries.
What I'd ultimately like to understand is if there was some flipped situation than today, with poorer north, or some sort of exploitative use which made a moderately wealthy north wealthier at the expenses of the South and how the south was at the time. Or neither.
Thanks!
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Looking at Beethoven and Mozart’s messy and somewhat unreadable handwriting when writing sheet music, how are we sure that when transcribing, it’s accurate to what they intended? For example, how are we sure that the note is X, not one ledger line down below?
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What is a good read on the history of Japan, cultural, lifestyle, familial, ok political - that is not the usual list of wars and kingdoms? What speaks about the development of the people?
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In my old highschool history book, there was a brief mention of asian "thunder crash bombs" which it said they weren't very impressive in terms of explosive power, but were extremely loud. And could be used to scare horses and ruin charges.
So this got me wondering, if they can be used to scare horses like that, why were they not used more often? Since I could only find brief descriptions and mentions of the weapon online; and nearly no descriptions of how they were used. Or no mention of them at all, in other history books.
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When studying the topic, is focusing on agency a useful way of looking at history?
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I was under the impression that we sent warning telling them what we were going to do, not to mention we were flying over their airspace to do it.
How did they not have their air force on high alert?
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Just a question about the Babylonian imperial policy here: what was the point of keeping the elites around instead of just killing them/replacing them with your own?
Was it just a matter of making use of them elsewhere as manpower? It seems like a lot of the people captured and deported were men of station though, just not raw fieldhands...
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I was thinking about it since they were pretty good astronomers.
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Due to some bad choices I am slowly becoming a weeb. I'm particularly interested in the Warring States period of Japanese history as it's so formative to the mythology and later media of the nation.
Yet almost all English-language history books I can find on it focus on the final stage of the period with the three unifiers, with an annoying focus on Oda Nobunaga. Yes, Oda's rise is very interesting but when all I can find in English is the dissection of every minute detail of his life I really can't stand to look at any more of it.
I want to learn about the Takeda and Uesugi, the Hojo, the Ikko-Ikki, the Portuguese and Catholics, the Onin war, I want to know how it all relates to each other. Preferably written in an easy-to-digest format that I can read between other studies.
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Not just the Victorians but also any pre-feminist era Queen or Empress (Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I, etc.). My understanding is that it was perceived as improper for a woman to participate in politics (hence women not being MPs or being allowed to vote until the 1910s), but that doesn't make sense if the head of state is a woman (especially if this was in an era like the 16th century when monarchs weren't just ceremonial figureheads and still held significant power). And there have been a number of monarchies that have explicitly ruled out women from the line of succession (Japan and Morocco spring to mind), so why didn't the English?
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