My understanding is - the bombers landed in China and didn't return to the aircraft carriers

My question is - did they land and if so what happened to them after they landed

Hello!

Hoping you can help me asses whether going for a major in History would be a huge mistake or a good idea based on my circumstances. I'm sure you are all tired of these questions, so I appreciate anyone who would take the time to give input. Thank you in advance.

I'm in my late 20s and I'm a first-time college student. I'm looking at transfer universities and possible majors. The History major is toward the top of my list but I have no delusions of grandeur that I would be an academic Historian.

I was told I'm one of the few students at my community college who got perfect scores on both placement tests for reading comprehension and writing, so apparently I'm decent at those skills. It would be nice to further hone skills that I already have an aptitude for. My true love is Geography as I love reading about locations, languages, and cultures, both modern and throughout time. However, most colleges around me don't have Geography programs at all. The ones that do are highly oriented around GIS and programming, which I HATE doing. I feel like History would be a good meeting ground between all of these interests, in addition to expanding my skills into research, which I've always wanted to do but never had the chance.

I'm still not 100% sure about careers. I do know I don't want to go back to retail as that is where I spent my time since graduating high school. I could see myself possibly getting into advertising or PR, writing or editing, becoming a genealogical researcher, working as some type of archivist, or doing investigative work for insurance (I know that's not thrilling but it's something). I can even see myself one day deciding to get more education and becoming a teacher, a paralegal, a lawyer, or a librarian. In other words, I'm pretty flexible and open-minded, but I would like to put writing, reading, and research abilities to good use.

What do you think? According to my goals and aptitudes, would a History major be a good fit? Or a waste time?

Relevant info: My husband's parents paid off all his student loans. I, on the other hand, am not so lucky. But any student loan debt I take on will be our only debt. My husband has a full-time job in a career he loves. So worse case scenario, I won't be homeless on the street or anything.

To elaborate, I mean the current idea of whiteness. It seems like everyone who has white skin is considered “white” unless they can prove otherwise. If I remember correctly, this wasn’t always the case. I remember learning in school, for example, that the Irish were discriminated against in colonial times. They weren’t considered “white” then, even though they had white skin. So when did everyone with light skin start to be considered white?

What inspired me to ask this is I’m biracial, half black and half white, but I’m white-passing. I never knew what to label myself for gov’t forms until they added the “two or more races” option. Until recently, I always used “other” because I’m not just white or black. So I’d love to hear the history of whiteness just because I’m pretty curious how it came to be (or if I’m wrong and it was always this way.)

Hello,

I love learning about the daily life of people in the past. I was wondering if any of you know a channel on Youtube that talks about the daily life of people (especially the 19th and 20th centuries)? I'm mostly looking for stuff about life in Europe but North America is fine too. (I already know Karolina Zebrovska, I love her but she is mainly talking about fashion si I'm willing to learn about plenty of other things).

I have randomly picked up this book from a shelf at a place I was visiting, and managed to get through about a chapter and half. It got me really interested, and I would like to read through the whole series. However, I have some doubts. First because of its age (1959), and second because the author at times seems to be drawing very far-reaching conclusions from what (at least to me) appears to be tiny fragments of evidence.

What are the professional historians' opinions on the books? If they are, understandably, outdated, could you recommend me some more recent reading on similar topics, that could be available in a university library?

Thanks in advance!

Hi all.

My whole life I’ve wanted to be a history professor. I started reading history books for fun in my early age, 8 or 9. I memorized all the presidents and their dates and all of that in elementary school. I knew all the answers in Social Studies through high school. It was my thing. The only career I’d ever wanted was to be a history professor. I was good at history. It was my passion.

So I go to a decent undergrad, major in history. Work hard. Get a fellowship to do my Master’s. Work hard. Get my Master’s…and I choke. After graduation, I leave and don’t go on for the PhD. I’m listless. I realize the struggles of academia today are real: no academic jobs, and I would’ve spent five, six, seven years of my life trying to get a PhD that would train me for a job that no longer exists.

So my question is: What am I supposed to do now?

I worked for a nonprofit for a while, but I moved on from that quickly. Now I teach high school history. There are things I like…but mostly it’s exhausting. It’s not what I want to do for the rest of my life. Anybody from similar situations that have guidance? What should I do now that I realize the History PhD is just not what I want? Or what it used to be? When I realized I wasn’t going to get the PhD, I was lost….it’s the only thing I ever really wanted, and now it just wasn’t going to happen and…boy that messed everything up.

I’ve thought about law, obviously, but I never really pictured myself as a lawyer. Maybe as a judge, but I’d have to be a lawyer first. After all.

So I’ve been thinking about this a little bit, why do we have homework in our modern day society and why does it actually count as a grade in most places?can someone give a brief explanation on the history of homework in the U.S. and how it has evolved in our society today?Thanks for any response!

Usually all my academic reading goes to the warfare in the 15th-16th Century. Recently started becoming fascinated with this specific conquest. What are the Cornerstone works written about this time period or any decent reads/articles on this topic in general. Thanks!

I recently read a textbook that claimed

"...the Qing knew little about the enormous fortunes being made in the early 1800s by European and American merchants smuggling opium into China. They did not know that silver gained in this illegal trade was helping finance the industrial transformation of England."

This claim seems extremely suspicious to me, as (to the extent of my knowledge) the Qing aristocracy seemed acutely aware of opium smuggling, and even banned imports or the drug. Similarly, the claim that the Qing were ignorant of British industrialization seems equally suspicious. How accurate are these assertions? Were the Qing truly ignorant of Opium smuggling and industrialization?

It seems like whenever a new territory was formed, its constituent modern states took shape fairly quickly.

I'm pretty sure German people took some time to realize the Jews weren't a subrace and that their government did so many horrible things?

This might have been made up, but if there are any experts who know where to look please help. I read once about a Romanian survivor of the Nazis. After world war II he heard a rumour about a SS officer responsible for an atrocity that killed his family managing to join the french foreign legion.

The romanian joined the legion as well in the hopes of tracking him down and apparently during the chaos of the battle of dien bien phu, the climax of the French Union's rule in indochina, he found the SS officer and gunned him down.

Does anyone know if this is true, or how to track down the facts about this event, or if someone made this up or maybe if I dreamt this and should write a fiction novel about this

I just can’t imagine medieval battles playing out like it does in media. It’s such a stupid idea and it would have been impossible to command troops and tell apart friend from foe. Surely it must have been an offensive and a defensive die?

I already got a few books recommended to me:

Henry Kissinger´s - Diplomacy

Mazzucchelli´s - The Lead Years

Keyne´s - The Economic Consequences of Peace

Ikenberry´s - After Victory

Carr´s - 20 Years of Crisis

Deist´s - Germany and the Second World War Volume I

I often hear people mentioning that the US Civil War was not about slavery but was about state rights. What were these other rights and how much of a role did they play in the decision to secede?

My great grandmother’s brother fought in the American army during WW2. His unit took part in the liberation of Bavaria at the end of the war. I need to know which unit that might have been. The only lead I have is that he probably fought in western Bavaria near Ulm and the small town of Roggenburg and it was an infantry unit. If you need more detail, just ask and I’ll answer the questions I know the answers to.

I'm constantly seeing debates online about this. The more I read into what lead up to the civil war, the more I question everything. We are taught in school that the civil war was fought over slavery and that Lincoln freed them. So instead of explaining what I know/have read, I thought I'd ask some questions to where the answers can let me have a better grasp on things.

What key points actually lead to the civil war happening? Seems to of been because of overstepping powers of the federal government onto the southern states.

How different was the 2 economy's? Did they both rely on eachother to survive to a degree?

Did Lincoln only freed the slaves when he realized he was losing the war? His quote "If I could save the union without freeing any slaves, I would" also the Lincoln/Douglas debates make me question it.

Because of the industrial revolution, was slavery already on its way of being phased out?

European countries were thinking about being involved (France and GB). Was this an added reason why Lincoln wanted to paint this as a moral war? So keep foriegn nations out of it all?

I've read one of his books and listened to his "Stalingrad" podcast. I found both quite easy to digest and enjoyable. I also saw that several of his audiobooks are public domain on youtube.

Some his writing is quite specific about troop movements and dates and seems to use a lot of both first and second hand information. How reliable or "accurate" are his books considered to be? It seems like our understanding of WW2 and the 20th century is evolving quite a bit throughout the years. Thanks!

Literally, tea has been an issue in almost every major expansionist issue having to do with Great Britain. From Spain, to America, to China, trading opium for tea? TEA? I mean, I can almost understand spice wars, because of food and market trading, however...tea? Can anyone elaborate as to why Britian has always been such assholes over tea in different times of history?

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(Mainly from 1600-late 1800s for specified time period I guess)

Having been obsessed with the recent film The Lighthouse since I first saw it, I have been very curious to dig a bit deeper into the folklore behind the film - for instance mermaids, seagulls containing the souls of dead sailors ("bad luck to kill a seabird"), davy jones locker, krakens/other tentacled creatures etc. etc.

I am curious particularly about how sailors (or lighthouse keepers, and other professions) would have understood such things at the time the film is set, but to broaden any potential answer will say anywhere in the region of c. 1700-1900.

As well as any information our wonderful contributors can give, any direction for source and/or secondary material to read would be appreciated. Was there a coherent folklore which would have familiar to sailors/those professions, or was it still very much regional? The film is set in New England so I suppose any info regarding that area specifically. Was there a genuine belief in mermaids for instance? And is the seagull/soul aspect grounded in real contemporary beliefs?

Thanks in advance.