So I'm starting a little pet project biography on TR and while I'm reading several other biographies, I'd like to see some contemporary letters by and about him. So far the only ones I can find are pictures of his letters, but they're impossible to read. Anyone know where i can find readable copies? Like, written in type?

Did Palestinian Jews view European Jews as being ''others'', did they receive some form of prejudice, or were they viewed as being of the same stock, the same ethnicity or religious group? Did this have to do with the Zionist movement, and was integration relatively easy for the new Jewish immigrants?

I am creating a lesson plan for an English class and am looking to provide some contextual sources. While I have articles and texts analyzing the topic, I was searching for some writings from both Europeans and Africans (particularly the Asante in the Gold Coast) that give their perspectives on what was happening. If possible, perhaps some justification on colonization (i.e. Kipling's white man's burden).

Thank you in advance for any help you are able to provide.

I'm not asking about vacations. But would a peasant have any time in the week to stop by a friends house or stop by the tavern after a long week?

As we know, the leaders of the greek independence movement embraced ancient greek history, seeing modern greek history as an extension of ancient greek history, and thus basing the newly founded greek state on ancient Greece rather than the medieval Roman Empire.Among both intellectuals as well as the population as a whole of Greece, were anyone against this? Were anyone campaigning against this "change of style" for Greece, and were instead in favour of more identification ith their medieval past? Basically, Romioi vs Hellene

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During the crusader capture of Jerusalem, were the Arabs there enslaved to build construction projects? Were there ‘slave patrols’ to make sure that the slaves were doing their work?

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I'm a Marketing student working on a thesis paper that is in the very early stages of research. The general idea of the paper is in relation to fiefs and how they're similar to modern branding and marketing. Of course this is more so like the later feudal grants, etc. I am looking for a book that can teach me about the fiefs and feudalism in Europe. Length and complexity are no issue, same with amount of books. I'd really like to research the religious and political goings on at the time too (hopefully there's a book with all of this info in there somewhere.) If you have any ideas that would be killer. I'm looking forward to hearing from you!

As I am sure many of us know during the second and first century BCE the Romans implemented concrete as a principal building material on a mass scale which resulted in such recognizable structures as the Pantheon, the Colosseum, and the aqueducts to name a few. However, while one may easily be able to find a treasure trove of information on the Roman use of concrete I am hard pressed finding any concrete sources on what the Romans used prior to its implementation. As I currently stand I suspect they used perhaps limestone or possibly marble, although whenever I sure for limestone it immediately directs toward the lime used in concrete mixtures. So with that I am coming to you fine historians of Reddit and hoping you can shed some light on the matter. Your help, and your time is much appreciated.

I assume it's not that easy to back up a sailing ship. How did they get them to dock to unload cargo? How did they get them out?

Were there steam powered tugs or something? What about before steam power?

I was wondering if heroic monsters were a modern trope, or if there were stories or epics where the heroes were part something monsterous. Obviously, this doesn't include the child of human-like gods such as Zeus or Poseiden, I mean child of a dragon, or child of an ogre or monster.

How did towns in the arid areas of the American West such as Arizona or Nevada deal with what must've been constant oppressive dust from riders and wagons and just traffic in general? I live and work in areas similar to these places and we have to use water trucks and/or gravel to mitigate the dust today.

I read this one for a couple of times now. Are there any WW2 historians to reply on this, and tell us their opinion?

Also during the interim between Merovingian and Carolingian rule. I'm genuinely ignorant on this topic.

Were they successive iterations/dynasties of the "same" Persian Empire, like the Egyptians or Chinese kind of were in their own way? Or were they distinct political, social and/or religious entities?

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Im doing some personal research about my grandfather who flew b25's in italy and france. The government said his records burned up in a fire so we're very limited on what we know. We know he ended up flying ground support for the 5th army though so i was wondering if there was a way to find out his squadron was.

There's alot of info im leaving out to keep this relatively short. I can provide all i know if needed or if it can help someone help me.

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Hello, I'm trying to get an idea of the type of men on board a 17th century English merchant ship, sailing to the Mediterranean - what a typical crew was like in nature. I read an account from the captain of a 'ship-money fleet' (meant to combat pirates in the English Channel) and the class of men was, in his description, the roughest and most miserable one can imagine.

There are also accounts I've found of men on the privateering ships, but because of the 'treasure-seeking' nature of these journeys, I could reasonably assume they might be of varied, working backgrounds. Alexander Selkirk, for instance.

Would a merchant ship's crew generally have been better educated/less likely to run in with the law, or about the same? 1630s is the specific decade I'm thinking about.

In WW1, the Germany only invaded Belgium and Luxembourg to get around the Maginot, so why did the Germans invade the Dutch when it did nothing for the "around the Maginot" strategy? Was it for imperialism or was it because the Germans needed a strategic invasion point to Britain?

Basically, my officemate is teaching a course this semester on 'The Punic Mediterranean', and I'm having to stop myself from making bad jokes about it, which has led to my wondering whether Punics actually had any concept of puns or wordplay in the first place. Did they, or am I putting the Cathage before horseplay?

From what i learned the intensity and scale of wars during the warring state period in china results in centralisation of power in the central governments and fedualism collapsed, many states in China during this period used modern state operations such as mass mobilisation, total war, universal male military service and centralised army with professional officer corp than aristocratic elites these concepts didn't developed in Europe until 2000 years later during the Napoleonic era.