Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but what history books are best for a look at unions in America?

Why is there no Scottish Republican Army? Did the differences in treatment by the english lead to violence in Ireland and not Scotland?

I'm thinkinbg about reading it, but I want to make sure that it hasnt been discredited by more modern histories.

I'm pretty sure I heard this somewhere, I can't find links to this could someone confirm or deny this for me. I can't find anything on it. Please give me a link if possible. I know it wasn't in the law, I mean when he was campaigning for social security.

I'm very interested in the Great Depression. I'm surprised to learn that there were conditions of extreme poverty in the Southern United States, with massive migrations to California and even that deaths by malnutrition were not rare. I think those were very good conditions for fascism to rise and take over the country, just as it happened in similarly impoverished Germany and Italy. I've read that movements defending fascist-like opinions did exist in the US, and that some leaders were in favor of a populist turn for the country. I really can't understand how did the US manage to keep its democracy intact and even stronger, given how easy would it have been (looking with today's eyes) to exploit the anger and the suffering of the poor and lead them into a totalitarian nazi-like regime, like it happened in Germany. Thank you.

Like were the recieving families volunteers? Where they enthusiastic about hosting children or indifferent? How did said children come to be assigned to families?

I've seen many argue that he was an atheist, agnostic, neopagan in the vein of Himmler, saw himself as a deity, was an extremist Christian, etc. What do we actually know on his views on religions, and if he practiced any himself, sincerely or not?

In tv and movies, they’re all depicted as super muscular. This is probably not the case, considering they didn’t have whey, know proper diet or have a gym.

I’ve never heard of anything g else but the Bible. Just curious, thanks.

I’m listening to a BBC podcast called Tunnel 29 about a group of students who built a tunnel to help people escape from Eastern Europe. The podcast describes a hellish scene the night and morning after the Berlin Wall was erected. They described people being frantic, uncertain of the future, and the feeling of being trapped. We’re there people on the East Berlin side that looked at the erection of the wall as a good thing? How did the Eastern German government spin this to sound good for their citizens?

I’ve always been told that the date for Christmas isn’t based on any historical date for Jesus’s birth but on pre-existing pagan solstice celebrations. So, why is Christmas on the 25th then? Why not on the 21st? No one has ever been able to explain that to me.

After taking over Italy, Theodoric pretty much assassinated his rival, Odoacer, while under the pretense of a truce and killed his family (for example, literally locking his wife in a room to starve to death). How did the Romans judge such acts of political violence?

The perfect Aryan is generally thought of as a tall, blonde, blue eyed muscular man. Hitler didnt really fit that bill. Do we know what he himself thought of that? How did he justify his leadership even though he didnt fit his own bill of the perfect man?

I'm interested in what journalists and politicians, both in the north and in the south, had to say about this abrupt change in rhetoric from the time of the Confederacy to the post-reconstruction years.

I'm a college student who has been asked by a History professor to guest lecture on the Thirty Years War, and the Great Northern War. I know a fair amount about the Great Northern War, and the Rise and Fall of the Swedish Empire, but I don't know a whole lot on the Thirty Years War, other than it was brutal and started as a conflict between the Catholics and Protestants. I guess what I'm asking is where are some good sources where I can educate myself on what happened during those thirty years, and what are some crucial events/people that MUST be covered in order for his students to effectively learn.

When I think of common people owning land for themselves, I think of the idea of the yeoman farmer in the United States, but even then I am quite ignorant on that.