MacArthur left a lasting legacy with his rule over Japan, and accomplished establishing a democracy without much resistance from the general populace. Did they resent the outcome overall, or revere him?

It seems like he kept on going with the United Front even after obvious betrayals and attacks from the GMD on the CCP. I'm confused as to why.

Due to various reasons, I was researching the effects of Nazi propoganda among other things and have been looking on the impact that it had. I tried to read up on anti-semitism in West Germany but have only been able to find articles on Anti-semitism in the 21st Century and the hsitory of Jews in West Germany which did not go into the specifics of anti-semitism in West Germany.

I tried looking this up but all the articles were really vague saying it was thrown off a cliff or is kept top secret.

Maybe this is a stupid question, but it seems like it would have been extremely hard to effectively represent your constituents, run political campaigns, and keep contacts back home while also splitting your time in Washington D.C. Did they just spend all their time in Washington, or was there some other solution they devised?

For example, if a newspaper wanted to publish letters and assure their readers of the writer’s authenticity, would they have been able to reproduce the letter and signature as a picture/lithograph in the newspaper? The 18th century equivalent of a scanned document appearing in a paper, I suppose.

I remember a professor talking about how there were a number of times in the Iliad in which the Greeks demonstrated that they shared the same religion. He talked about this a lot in class. I remember this being connected to Apollo, but I don't remember exactly how or where in the Iliad. I think one instance of this happened at the beginning, probably something to do with Chryseis. How would a person show that they too worshiped Apollo, that they upheld xenia, and were not barbarians but were people of the same culture?

the Founding Fathers are venerated in the United States, and in Italy, Victor Emmanuel is held in high regard. But in Germany it seems Bismarck's reputation is rather lukewarm and sometimes even negative. But why is that the cause?

And why didn't they just roll the Waffen SS into the Heer? Did they actually perform different functions than the army, or was it just a duplicate service, a sort of glorified heer detachment?

In my book on Ancient Civilizations in the Ancient Persia section, there is a mentioning of three Indo-Iranian tribes that came together to form the empire, but I don't think they're mentioned again in the book, and the internet hasn't really given me a definite answer so far so could someone give me some sort of clarification on what these three tribes were called? Were they the Achaemenid Empire, Parthian Empire, and Sassanid Empire, or is there something I've missed? Thanks in Advance.

I enjoyed "I, Claudius" and its sequel, many years ago, but I have always wondered; how accurate are they historically?

Of course, narrative had to be assumed in order to bring everything together, but since it's written In the past tense, it should have been easier to be accurate

That being said, how accurate are the first and second hand histories written during the era that have survived today? How do we know tacitus didn't just make things up?

Obviously is a very complicated question, so thanks for reading!

I know they were neutral and fighting France at the time but they shared a border with both the CSA and the Union so they had to be involved in at least some way no matter how small right?

I’m a bit confused about the motivations for creating Yugoslavia and why it fell apart. Did something change between 1919 and the 1990s that caused Yugoslavia to not be so desirable anymore?

Say a T34 is destroyed by a German tank and the crew burns alive but the tank is mostly okay. Would the soviets just leave the tank there or would they rebuild it and put a new crew in it?

They kind of played a role in the further cultural development of the west too, yet I hear very little about them (or maybe it is my perception?)

many thanks!

I'm curious as to how much a Soviet Republic resembled an American State or German Bundesland in terms of autonomy, different laws, etc. But I also wonder why they even existed to begin with; what prompted the Bolsheviks to adopt this federation system, rather than centralizing government and uniting everyone into a single Soviet republic? What was the purpose of separating all these polities from Russia itself?

So this isn’t really history related i guess, but i assume some of you are actual historians. So my life goal is to become a historian after i move to Washington D.C. and i’m not entirely sure how to go about that. From what i’ve seen historians write a lot of books but i don’t really know how to write a book and i really just want to educate people verbally rather than through literature. is there anyway i could do that or do i have to write books and stuff?

One thing that I have observed for decades is that American white supremacists and Nazis were completely obsessed with the idea that Nordic and northern European peoples were the master race. I know that this belief started somewhere in the 19th century. But what exactly is the origin of it, why did it get rooted so deeply in their mindset, and why do they believe that blond nords are the master race? Even some people who aren't Nordic.