Growing up I often heard the argument that Black women seeking abortion was a "plot" by the US government to curtail Black birth rates. Now I am hearing that lack of abortion access is rooted in structural racism.

How has the opinion on abortion shifted from structural racism by having an abortion to structural racism by denying access to abortion.

Lastly, it would be a bonus if someone can touch on W.E.B. DuBois and Margaret Sanger and their opinions on Black abortions/eugenics.

I’ve seen claims by neoclassical Twitter personalities such as pseudoerasmus that English historians thing that the enclosure movement had no impact on the formation of a wage-laboring class whereas in older historical scholarship at least it has been given a prominent role. Obviously, neoclassical thinkers are biased politically towards wanting a “pull” argument for the construction of a labor pool but I also haven’t seen an extensive modern and preferably quantitative argument for the political Marxism argument (I believe that’s the appropriate term).

What is the current state of the debate from someone familiar with both sides?

I was taught growing up in the Llano Estacado that the Comanche lived around West Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. So I was surprised to see a movie about Comanche that took place in what appears to be Montana (and was filmed near Calgary). I am assuming the producers decided to change the location for aesthetic reasons or did the Comanche really wander that far north ?

As a hobby I make youtube videos about historical topics. Nice to include newspaper sources in them.

But I'm not a student or member of a university, and I'm having difficulty finding free sources. My friend is a professor so I can bug him, but he's busy with his own life and I'd feel bad to constantly bother him for what is essentially a hobby.

English or Japanese language would be good.

I would deeply appreciate any suggestions you folks have.

I know the current language spoken in the area we call France is a Romance language, but why is it Latin based? Latin obviously wasn't the predominant language before the Romans came, and according to Wikipedia wasn't the predominant language during their rule either, though popular among the elites. From what I gather most of the the people in the area would have spoken a Celtic or Germanic language, Frankish or Gaulish during this time, as well as the centuries after. Charlemagne comes along and sort of united the region, he and his peers were elites so would have known Latin. His lands split into successor states. The people now in France speak a Romance language. The people in Germany speak Germanic.

I assume the elites who ruled after Charlemagne would have spoken whatever Charlemagne spoke, especially with each other. I could understand if the West and East developed different variations of the same language root, but French and German don't even have that. And both ruled over Celtic and Germanic people.

It seems to go from no Latin, a bit of Latin under the Romans, a bit of Latin after the Romans, then a bit under Charlemagne, all over that part of Europe. But a Latin based language develops in the Western/France part, but not the Eastern/Germany part. The ruling class of both were from the same family, and the people they ruled had similar languages. Am I assuming something really wrong, is this just a quirk of history, or something else I'm missing?

Did the Polaris programme have any influence on the cancellation of the fourth unit of the CVA-01 class ? David Hobbs wrote that initially the CVA-01 programme was to include 4 units, but 1 was dropped because of Polaris submarines's cost. Yet other sources seem to suggest that the third and fourth units were only notional.

Hy beautiful redditors, I need some wisdom.

I am trying to find-out how and where the practice of flipping the national-flag upside down started in the Netherlands. I know it started with the US army as a distress sign. But I am super curious how, when and where it started in European countries. Does anyone have an idea of a database or resource I could consult to find some images or anything relevant to this? Historical piece also works.

Many thanks in advance.

I had this idea to learn about the Cold War, WWI, WWII by actually immersing in the world and experience it myself. But as far as I know (or have searched) there are no war games in first person view that have close-to-real historical accuracy- or are there?

With the recent passing of David McCullough, my interest in history writing has reawakened. I've always wanted to write about certain historical topics, but the task always seemed so daunting. Is there a book or resource that breaks down the process? Thanks!

I’ve seen it mentioned but what exactly was it? How did it interact with governments and cities?

I've recently been thinking about wooden cups and drinking horns for the Norse and whoever else. how long would a wooden cup have lasted? How about a horn? these materials obviously degrade over time, so if one were to start rotting and going bad what would they do? Would they know? Where do you think I could get an answer to this if not here? I was thinking a wood working reddit, but I don't really think they would know about this. Definitely not the horn. I'm just really wondering about how ancient humans used things like bowls, cups and utensil if they were wooden. Could wooden cups and spoons be used today to help the environment assuming no varnish or whatever was used?

I've seen some say it's just a 4:9 ratio, and some say it just happens to be the golden ratio because it was made to look aesthetically pleasing and the golden ratio is exactly

I was reading a P.G. Wodehouse story about two (teenaged?) boarding school students who started a dorm-room business to supply pre-written “lines” to their classmates for 3-6 pence per sheet. In context, it seems that “doing X hundred lines” was a common punishment for classroom misbehavior at this (and other?) boarding schools in England during the early 20th century…. But it’s not something I’ve ever encountered in American suburban public school in the 90s/2000s.

I’d love to learn more about how common “doing lines” was in English boarding school culture, and how some of the details worked. Eg if you got assigned 500 lines from Virgil, could you pick any 500 lines, or was it one specific line repeated 500x? And was “one line” predefined in the book you were copying from (like how the Bible does), or does it literally just mean one line’s worth of handwriting on a notebook page? Why were Greek numerals worth including as an option for lines? Etc. And is this still a common punishment today, or when/how did it become abandoned? Any other relevant info welcome too!

As the title states, did Native American tribes tax their tribe members, whether it was in food, materials, or manpower, did they tax or was it unique to the eastern hemisphere?