I know some people who found one in downtown Fredericksburg in an area that could have taken fire from either side during the Battle of Fredericksburg. Were there differences in the kind of artillery they were using in the battle?

I happened into a volunteer "historian" position in a small western US village with a very unique history. I have no training and no experience - just an interest in history and computer skills. I'm the only person around who can catalog the items and information in the museum software we purchased. That's the value I add to the project. Nobody else has any training or experience either, so they come to me asking how everything should be dealt with.

There are just a handful of old-timers left who remember first-hand when the town was company-run. I'm told that life was "difficult" for women during that time. That was said to me in a way that left it very open to interpretation.

One of the volunteers, who is both an old-timer who grew up here, and female (she is well into her 80's) said that someone very important in the town sexually assaulted her and it took everything she had to come back here decades later. The more I learn the more I realize she wasn't the only victim. Although it may have been rumored around the town at the time, none of this ever made it into a newspaper or other printed form that I have happened upon.

From my perspective I have three options:

1. Record the assailant's accomplishments for posterity without note to alleged vile deeds.
2. Record the assailant's accomplishments and make mention of the alleged assault(s).
3. Do not record the assailant in any way - simply write them out of history.

I realize that a lot of historical figures were also not very nice people. On one hand I feel that writing them out of history would be doing an injustice to history itself, but on the other hand could there be a sweeter revenge than to wipe away their legacy? If I have that ability then I have too much power, perhaps? I am dealing with relatively unknown figures here. They're important locally, not at a national, state, or even county level in most instances.

Please remember that this is all new to me. I'm asking historians for some perspective on how to view this situation, and others like it when they come up. Because of the rough-and-tumble town that it was I have no doubt I will come across this again while researching other lives. I expect I may be volunteered to write the local history book. I really need to establish my mindset correctly from the beginning.

What fur is used to make the stoles, anyway? Are they dyed? What perks are there for being a member?

Was risi e bisi available to Venetians of 1661? What kind of peas were used?

(I am reposting this question in the standard format because it is no longer the Day of the Dead).

I'm in the last year of my PhD and am currently applying for a travel grant to visit the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. I'd like to visit slave plantations as well but I'm wary of whitewashing. What is the Mount Vernon Plantation like? What other plantations in that area should I consider? What other sites in D.C. would bolster my research? I'm new to Reddit and am also looking for recommendations of other Subreddits where I can find like-minded people who can point me in the right direction. Thanks.

I’m having a hard time coming up with enough evidence to support this point (a 2000 word essay), any help would be greatly appreciated. I’ve done quite a bit of research but I don’t think these points alone will satisfy the essay, here’s what I have so far:

• 1765, colonial assemblies passed resolutions denying that British parliament had the right to tax colonies directly

• 1765, representatives from 9 colonies met in New York to collectively call for repeal of the sugar and stamp act

• Colonists begin organizing politically across colonies

• American merchants agree to stop importing British goods

• Non importation societies are created

• A resistance group is formed in 1765 to prevent the collection of stamps by stamp collectors

• Daughters of liberty resistance group

Reading up on the legislative bodies (in name) of the countries in the Soviet sphere of influence I wonder what a working day consisted of. I would be even more curious about the experience of politicians from the non-dominant party ie. The parties that "joined" the communists in fronts/blockparties but nominally still existed. The actual voting was predetermined, so it seems to be a sinecure.

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To me all plate armors look the same. Did each army wear any particular insignia? In the peak of the fight how could they know who to attack?

For as long as I can remember I've had a fascination with learning/reading/watching anything WW2. However, my knowledge is very broad and general and i'd like to dig in a bit more (pacific theater specifically) and i'm wondering what the best course of action is.

I'm thinking simply doing it chronologically, from the Invasion of Manchuria onward. Is this the best way? Or is there a better way of doing it.

Also, I was handed down most of Ballentine's Illustrated History of WW2 collection with only a couple books missing. Is this a good resource? These books are old so obviously there are more recent accounts, but would it be a good starting point nonetheless?

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For my current project, I am reading trough the book 'Yashka - My life as a peasant, exile and soldier'. On page 35, she and her boyfriend apparently house a revolutionary who has escaped prison.

According to her, this man was responsible for the death of a notorious Siberian Governor. She neither tells the name of that Governor, nor the Revolutionary's.

Sadly, I can't speak or read Russian, so it would be very hard for me to find out who she might be referring to. If the Name of either the Revolutionary or the Governor are known, that would be great. If there is even a picture of one of them, that would be fantastic.

Additionally, as a quick question also: Is this book 'Yashka - My life as a peasant, exile and soldier' considered very accurate?

One of the examples given was that an Athenian didn't believe there was an actual Minotaur, but would use the lessons of the myth to understand that ships from Minoa (with a bull emblem) would be hostile. Or that when reciting tales of the Lady in the Lake who forged King Arthur's sword, folk would not believe that she was an actual creature or mythological entity, but understood her to be just a blacksmith. The common belief seems to be that ancient cultures legitimately believed their myths as factual history. Is this true, and if not, when did our perspective on it change?

Did NATO or the Soviet Union prepare for a conventional WW3? Did they do war games of a conventional WW3, what were the results if so?

I've seen depictions and read stories of combat-ready Viking women since I was a kid in the early 90's. I have always been told that they were a more progressive society in that sense. But I am reading a glut of news articles today about the first Viking warrior woman discovered.

So what exactly did we know in the 90's compared to what we know now?

I was listening to a recent episode of In Our Time about Napoleon's retreat in Russia and one of the historians being interviewed mentioned essentially the exact phrase in the title--that, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Cossacks made this transformation. She didn't elaborate as it was kind of a tangential point, but it got me thinking. What caused this change? I've always kind of wondered what the Cossacks are all about.

I know the Soviets and later Russians have "allegedly" (I'm using air quotes because, despite international consensus to the contrary, Russia denies involvement) assassinated or attempted to assassinate defectors & their families, sometimes years after they left the USSR/Russia. What I'm asking about is attempts to kill a double agent or defector as they are leaving the USSR or other Eastern Bloc country, as in e.g. Atomic Blonde.

And a related question: was the reverse plot, where a Soviet agent shepherds a Western defector across the Iron Curtain, ever popular in the Soviet Bloc?

The Luwians, while the bronze age collapse, where a significant population. With the century old fixation on the Minoan city-states and the Hatti empire there is hardly to come by of information.

What is presently known of how the Luwians fit into the Agean civilisation? How many scriptures has been found and how much of this been translated and evaluated?

Near the beginning of the revolution he was arrested for stealing a horse but manage to escape.He eventually return with just seven man but it would soon grow to a actuall army. If he was able to rebuild his army after just starting off with just seven man.So why was he unable to rebuilt when he had over 200 man.

What I'm more curious about is how they started creating more iterations of the same crop.

I just read a book about homosexuality in Ottoman Empire. It turned out homosexuality was pretty common in Ottoman Empire. There were male sex workers, poems written by males about another man's beauty ext. I talked about it with my friend and he said "I dont know about the Ottomans but I know Persians learned homophobia from Europe." Is it true?