Basically title, I saw the TIL post and it said he was a “criminal mastermind” so how did he let phrases and mannerisms that could Identify him slip into the manifesto?

There are a lot of people that'll go out of their way to deny points of history or give misleading historical statements. On the History Subreddits, moderators simply delete comments promoting the "Lost Cause" myth, genocide denial, or Hitler/Stalin apologia. What about outside of Reddit where moderators don't exist to silence such comments and where they can potentially get onto major media outlets to spread falsehoods?

A while back I read the book Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sara Miller. It's a book which attempts to imagine what life might have looked like for Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother during the events of "Little House on the Prairie".

For the majority of the book, Caroline is pregnant, and throughout the story she continually expresses shame/embarrassment whenever she's someplace people outside the immediate family might see or take notice of her "condition".

My question is, is the book accurate in that it would have been seen as somehow "improper" for a pregnant woman to appear in public or seen by a man, even in her husband's presence?

I want to be clear, I ask this out of genuine interest in the method historians use and NOT as a shot at anyone's faith.

This is more specifically in regards to religious/ supernatural claims, such as the resurrection of Jesus that some scholars claim to be a valid conclusion to the alleged events.

I'm rather interested in how historians might come to a conclusion such as this despite the event of someone coming back from the dead being completely inconsistent with known reality.

In my mind any conclusion that we know to be possible would be a more likely one than one that we have no good reason to believe is anything but impossible.

Obviously more educated people than I disagree with this thought so I was wondering what I'm missing from the methodoly of assessing historical claims?

Are there examples of people expressing empathy for animals in antiquity (as opposed to anger for loss of utility)?

Did the equipment of the average soldier in the Middle Ages bear recognizable marks that allowed fighters to know who was the enemy during melees?

I assume that the distinction was pretty easy in the case of major cultural differences (e.g. during the battle of Toulouse in 721 between the Duchy of Aquitaine and the Umayyad Caliphate), but how about battles between duchies of the same "region", or during civil wars?

What would the Vikings have in their gardens?

How did they look, does anyone know of a good book or place on the internet to read about Viking gardens, "parks" and such.

I am especcialy interested in the history of Africa from a 'economic' perspective. What were the ecological and economic circumstances that defined the 'political' structures of the peoples of the continent?

Love this sub but it's so frustrating. 99% of the questions asked I'm fascinated in finding out what the answer could be, so I see it has several comments click on it only to find they all been removed (because noobs have been commenting).

I'm left frustrated I'll never get an answer to that question. I tried to save the question and check it later in the week but I ended up saving too many and it's too much of a job to go checking back through them all, it would just be easier and less stressful to see which have been answered.

The issue here is simple: Reddit is designed to run on what is getting the most activity while this sub is designed to run on the most logical answers which can take days even weeks to get an answer. By that time the question is no longer visible as more active/new questions bury it.

Why don't you use flairs?

I'm specifically interested in learning about the relationship between the colonies and their metropoles. Such as, to what extent did they operate independently etc. But any works on ancient Greek colonisation would be welcome

Hello, I have been looking around for good scholarly works on the history of European attire (all aspects of life military, sleeping etc..) and i'm wondering if there is considered a great work for somebody who wants to start reading on the subject.

Thank you for reading.

I understand 'ideologies' isn't the best word, but 'cosmologies' didn't sit right with me, given that the intertwining between the interests of scribes and other learned individuals and the execution of those ideas by Chinese government officials in varying forms.

I've seen the map with the delimitations but, how was the Portuguese able to expand the Brazilian territory more to the West if that was "Spanish" territory? What were the clauses of that treat?

I know that the Nazis conducted brutal human experiments on those in concentration camps such as methods to prevent hypothermia but I was curious if these experiments actually produced any results or were just another example of the complete lack of humanity.

I'm currently reading Dragon in the Land of Snows. It's written by a Tibetan academic, and seems pretty anti-PRC. It doesn't tell how Tibetans lived before the PRC came, focusing on the ruling classes and their reactions to the Chinese. It also suggests that the average Tibetans were brainwashed by the Communist Party into believing that their old society had in justice when there was none. The reason for this is that the Communist cadres had to tell them why capitalism/feudalism "is evil".

I'm not saying that the author is necessarily wrong in his assessment. Perhaps they were brainwashed. But suggesting that because someone didn't independently think of problems with the previous system means that it was fine is not right (think of all the people who vote for political parties that screw them over, or create the problems they're concerned about). Additionally, the lack of information regarding ordinary Tibetans' lives robs us of the ability to form our own opinions regarding this matter (though I do believe that the author himself acknowledged that there was a lack of information regarding this).

So, historians of /r/askhistorians, can you help me find out how ordinary Tibetans lived in the thirty or so years before the Chinese invasion?

I understand this is a very sensitive subject that still affects the day to day lives of people today. How did the Israeli Government divide the previously Arab Palestinian land and property to new occupants? What was the process Palestinians were able to return to previously owned land in exchange for acceptance of the Israeli government?

This is essentially a shower thought that I had today while driving and it’s not meant to be Islamophobic. I don’t think it should be particularly controversial to point out that since the European Renaissance, Islam has become more conservative and less tolerant of science.

I’m just wondering why in its early days, the Middle East and greater Islamic world saw a long period of progressive thought and scientific/mathematical discovery, and what happened to make this period end relatively suddenly.

Did Muslims specifically reject the changes they were seeing in post Renaissance Europe?

Was there some inherent part of Islam that encouraged scientific enquiry but only so far as it didn’t challenge the religiously enforced view of nature?

Was it more of a cultural shift than a religious one that caused the start and/or end of the Golden Age?

Was it purely caused by the Mongol invasions? This seems to be the common explanation, but surely just having libraries in Baghdad burned only causes some knowledge to be lost, but not necessarily the thirst for knowledge. Why not rebuild the libraries and try and fill them back up with new discoveries?

You had people trained by OSS and SOE, as well as Russian partisans who were trained in insurgency warfare. They came in all shapes and sizes from all walks of life.

What happened to them after the war?