I’m reading Mary Beard’s SPQR and would love some recommendations for other books about Roman History.

Im talking ancient times. I'm so blind I wouldn't be able to battle properly, build things, etc. Would I be a farmer?

What does history say about it?

I've become fascinated with Gothic history, and I want to see what the experts consider worthy of a read on behalf of the Goths.

I’m trying to write a fantasy novel in a world that has similar naval/shipbuilding technology to the age of exploration. The characters are tasked with exploring and charting the lands west of a large ocean, but I want the ships to have some kind of capacity to field a large enough amount of infantry to square off against natives and small towns of a similar technology level.

I guess I’m wondering how many people a ship of that age could transport and still be seaworthy far from shore on a long expedition. And, since it’s a fantasy novel, how big a wooden exploration vessel could theoretically be without becoming unlikely or detrimental to the voyage.

I've found the site to have some questionable sources (Not limited to the book "White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex In The Nineteenth-Century South" which is already a dubious title in of itself). Exactly how accurate is the site as a whole in regards to the lives of enslaved african-americans in the Antebellum South, particularly Maryland & Delaware?

I wanted a book that I could read to learn about Rome

I found a book by a huge old historian named Livy, the book was called "Dawn of the Roman Empire," anyone know if it's a good book or if theres any better ones?

In several games and movies there are big metal crosses on the beaches and I have no idea what's their purpose. I would really like to know more about battles at shores.

Did Italy and Britain ever fight in wwii

Hi, what books about history of Scotland (from Medieval until today) do you recommend? Ideally, they should be available as e-books. My favorite authors of historical books are Antony Beevor, James M. McPherson, Roger Crowley, Niall Fergusson, Alexandra Richie, Hugh Kennedy, Norman Davies (in this order), so I would like to read something similar in style to those listed :)

I was arguing with someone over mods for a game and I used the word “Vanilla” to describe the game without any mods and I stopped and thought about what I was saying. Why is vanilla default? Why not something like chocolate

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For a broad hypothetical example, does a historian arguing that slaves' conditions in the Roman Empire were worse than in their contemporary neighbors have any ethical obligation to acknowledge if some of the numbers they use to come to their conclusion come from a paper arguing that Romans took relatively good care of their slaves?

Or can you cite facts freely without needing to add caveats or explanations as to why you are interpreting/contextualizing the information differently?

Quakers are known for their strident pacifism, but also during the 19th century, they were often associated with the abolitionist movement as well. During the Civil War, I occasionally read of 'fighting Quakers' who decided to join the Army, but it usually is just an aside, and I've never seen much that discusses whether their specific motivations as it related to their religious practices: Ardent faithful versus existing apathy finding a useful outlet.

So the core of my question then is two fold. How did the Quaker community in the United States view the Civil War, and engage with the ramifications of the ongoing conflict? As noted in the title, I'm most especially interested in this as it specifically related to Abolitionism within the Quaker community. Even though ending slavery wasn't an explicit goal from the start, certainly many abolitionists saw that promise within it, and by 1863 it had become a clear part of the Union cause, so how did these factors interact at the outset of the war, and how did the shifting place of anti-slavery within the context of the war impact views of it within the Quaker community?

Further, when we read about soldiers noted to be 'fighting Quakers', who were these men generally? Were they faithful, integrated members of the community for whom the cause of ending slavery trumped their pacifism, or is it generally just men raised in Quaker communities who found a useful excuse to leave?

Reading 'the History of the Ancient World' by Susan Wise Bauer, she quotes a sixth-century writer named Jordanes as stating about the Goths "in the artic region, a great island named Scandza... burst forth like a swarm of bees and came in to the land of Europe."

So if im reading this right, its the same peoples whom a thousand years later we would call Vikings? Did the Goths share a similar religion or what do we know they believed in and how they lived?

I have often heard it said that the airlines were "deregulated" in the late 1970s during the Carter Administration. Often this is said to have aided the growth of previously non-existent budget airlines. What regulations did airlines have to meet before this time? Why were the regulations ended? Why did this occur (maybe counter-intuitively) under a Democratic administration and Congress? Was there any strong or organized opposition, or was support for deregulation almost unanimous?

Most of my curiosity comes from the fact that ‘counties’ are still an extremely popular term, even though the Constitution bans feudal titles in the US. What was left of feudalism in the 1760’s American colonies?