I only recently learned that Canada has "reserves" for Native Americans, which appear generally equivalent to reservations in the United States; were these deliberately modeled on or inspired by the US, or did the Canadian government arrive at this system independently? Were indigenous nations forcibly removed to and kept within these reserves, as in the US, or was it a more peaceful process?

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I am doing research for a tabletop game, and have been looking a little into the different kinds of Black Powder munitions available around the Jacobite period of warfare, but with inspiration wherever it may be found.

Would anyone be so kind and amazing as to introduce me to other types of ammunition possible used, even in passing reference?

Thank you kindly, and keep up the good work all!

So, I may know someone who witnessed war crimes in Vietnam. What's next? Would historians be interested in this at all, or would I just be wasting their time?

I am planning to apply for PhD admissions in history soon and have been facing some doubts regarding the research proposal that should be submitted as a part of the applications. It will be really helpful if someone could clarify some of the doubts. My proposed area of research is colonial South Asia and some of the doubts are listed below: (Replies from South Asia experts and from any historian/graduate students will be hugely helpful. Thanks a lot in advance for your help.) (As for the choice of universities I am interested in universities in US, UK and India. Both UK and Indian universities require a research proposal at the time of application while US universities ask for a statement of purpose with a word cap of around 1000. I am more interested in knowing about longer research proposals with no/larger word limits compared to SOPs for US schools.)

1.How detailed and complete should be the proposal in terms of literature review, research questions, methodology and the set of sources that would be consulted? Am I expected to cover all the relevant literature and to be really precise about research questions and methodology? Am I expected to be familiar with the sources in detail or is it enough to list a set of potential sources and archives that would be used for conducting research? How specific should be the sources listed (for example: the archived materials from a particular government department or should I mention specific set of files)? 2. Am I expected to have a working hypothesis or is it alright to mention that the answers to research questions will be put forward after detailed analysis of sources? 3. Should the research questions be completely original or is it acceptable to mention that the objective is to build on existing work by widening the scope of enquiry and by looking for new and alternative explanations? 4. How to mention sources whose availability/accessibility is not confirmed when the proposal is being drafted (stuff that should ideally exist but might not have been preserved or is not in a readble state and the ones whose exact location haven't been traced yet)?

Probably the most glaring example is in the anthem of the Fifth Brigade, where it literally says "Luchamos contra los moros".

Obviously it's a reference to the Army of Africa and the key role it played into the Civil War, but it makes me curious. Knowing Spain's history of "fighting against the moors", how widespread was the idea in Republican forces and supporters(which at least I always associated with internationalism, progressism and the large role or volunteers from around the world) that they were fighting against an army of "moorish" invaders and how large a role did this idea have on republican propaganda and their rethoric?

I'm guessing the short answer is when they first raided Lindisfarne in England. I guess that makes sense for the Norwegian vikings but what about the Danes? Didn't they share borders with christian nations, or at least close enough to them to encounter the religion before the Viking age?

In the age of discovery when the Europeans made contact with indigenous populations it largely resulted in deaths from diseases like small pox which they had no immunity to. Especially in the cases of the Caribbean and the Andean civilizations. In the case of Mesoamerica though the disease that was said to have decimated the populations there was called cocoliztli. Some people have argued that was brought about when Cortes conquered the Aztecs but there are other arguments that it was actually a disease indigenous to the New World and that it probably brought down the Maya civilization during its classical stage. What are the veracity of these arguments?

I’m trying to accumulate some personal accounts, articles, and books on what the life and culture in French Revolution Paris was like for those in the city. Less focus on the big pivotal leaders and more on the common people. It’s for a story I’m writing so the more personal the better. I’ve got enough reading on the revolution as a whole (for my book) and am now just trying to get a better understanding of the life and culture of people during that time.

And sadly I do not speak or read French so ideally they sources in or translated to English. Thank you very much!

The Dead Sea Scrolls seem to be a once-in-a-century find, but I keep thinking about the vastness of the deserts and how many settlements, structures, and tombs might have vanished beneath shifting sands.

As the title suggests, I'm just looking for books about puritanism in America. In particular I am interested in how it has evolved over time. Are there any rituals that we engage in today that can be easily traced to what we think of as "the puritans", and what are they?

I'm sure this is a rich topic, I'm just looking for reading material.

I am aware that the translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs were helped because of the discovery the Rosetta Stone which has the well-known Greek writing on it, but how did archaeologists and historians deciphered the cuneiform and Sumerian language?

As far as I know cuneiform writing was also used by the Persians, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, and other civilizations, and that some languages using the script has surviving members from the same family e.g. Akkadian is in the Semitic language family, but how did we managed to piece together information to figure out the Sumerian language, which (IIRC) is a language isolate and doesn’t have any living relatives?

Many Civil War veterans lived into the 20th century and were alive to witness the construction of the Confederate monuments that cause so much controversy today. Do we have any articles, diaries, etc. revealing to us what these Veterans of the war felt about said monuments and the revival of the Virginian army flag?

I know that there were tons of battles in the Low Countries and Germany during the Thirty Year's War but considering Italy was wedged between the Habsburgs and France did any fighting occur there or did Italy largely avoid the devestation of the war?

Maxim Seven refers to strange beliefs and a correct doctrine. The Qing would also introduce public schools for the Confucian education of the young. Could this have turned into a general dissolution of other religions and philosophy and the creation of a unified and all encompassing Confucian orthodoxy?

Hi all,

I am a history graduate student close to finishing up and recently a book came out that somewhat overlaps with my own research topic. It does not do so in terms of interpretation, as my argument and approach is very different from this work, but rather in terms of the historical events it covers. Moreover, I largely use other sources than this work.

Still, I am somewhat unsure what to do now. What I plan to do is to simply include the work in the literature review of my introduction and explain how what I do is different. Would that be sufficient? Or do I need to go through my thesis draft page by page and add footnotes ("on this also see..." or "X also covers this, but does not interpret it in this way") whenever I touch upon a minor point/aspect/detail using my own sources that this author also mentions? This does not seem to be common in other books in my field, but I am still unsure about this.

Thanks!

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