Hello there, I recently went to the European History Museum in Bruxelles where there was a temporary exhibition about "Youth in EU History" (a very interesting museum by the way!).

Most notably, there was a whole chapter about the Sixties where several youth movements went vocal at the same time: the Hippie movement of course but there were also many student protests in France or West Germany to name a few, and even some in the Eastern Bloc (Soviet hippies). For example, in France we often talk about "May 1968" but we overlook that it was an international trend.

As far as I understand, they were the first post-WWII generation and mostly revolted against social conservationism. How do the protests in Europe relate with other movements in the world (Hippies of course but Japan was affected according to my quick Wikipedia check)? How do they differ? Was there any form of coordination between countries or even continents?

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Inspired from the anime Vinland Saga (on Amazon) and general interest. Travelling by boat and land I would imagine it being difficult to properly preserve land based proteins for potentially long voyages. Were travelers in this time typically malnourished or were there practices to ensure otherwise, such as salt curing, fishing or maintaining minor livestock?

Read in my AP Euro textbook today that some historians believe Machiavelli wrote The Prince ironically to criticize that type of rule, as there is evidence that suggest he believed in Republican government. Thoughts?

I have heard and read that James Buchanan was actually a gay man who was closested to the rest of the United States outside of DC. I am wondering the legitimacy of us because I believe there are love letters and things that are said to prove it.

I may be 100% wrong, but I feel like I remember hearing somewhere that America made a lot of artillery (this may be wrong, maybe during ww1?) and I was wondering if tanks made by America (or possibly other allied nations producing weapons at the time) that were supposed to be used for the war effort were used during the invasion of Poland by Soviet Union? (I may be way off on what I said/facts may be wrong but I was just wondering) 😁

I'm doing an essay in my contested history unit and was wondering if anyone had sources relating to right-wing bias in the AUSTRALIAN media. It needs to be Australian as the topic is right-wing bias and its impact during the Australian History Wars debate.

So I recently read John Evelyn’s first hand account of the great fire of London in 1666 and it was a really awesome window into what it was like to be someone just living and thinking at that time. It really showed me how little has changed with humans since that point in history. Anyway, the account really piqued my interest and I’m cute curious as where’s one could find other similar first hand accounts throughout history such as that one? I really enjoy history but often reading about it gives off this detached feeling as opposed to feeling almost like you are really there the way Evelyn’s account does. I appreciate any advice given, thank you in advance

Albert Einstein was a jew that left Germany to work with Germany’s enemies. I also believe he had pacifist and socialist tendencies. Did the Nazis at any point try to use him personally as propaganda as an example of Jews betraying Germany? Or were they determined to make the Jews as faceless and nameless and inhuman as possible?

I'm travelling to Normandy in a few weeks, and trying to read up on the history. I've found tons of resources on D-day, but comparatively very little on the thousand years of history before that. Can anyone recommend a source for the broader history of the region?

And if I'm asking in the wrong subreddit, where should I ask instead?

Are there any accounts of said people and in addition would it be possible to get an idea on how that contingent was recruited and structured?

In 1944, XX Bomber Command of the USAAF was stationed in China to bomb the Japanese home islands with the B-29. When the IJA launched an all-out offensive against the Nationalist armies in an attempt to knock out those US bomber bases, how did American air assets attempt to support their Chinese defenders? Given the Japanese penchant for launching attacks based around mass infantry waves and their total lack of air defenses capable of dealing with a B-29, it seems like CAS sorties could have been fairly effective. Were there any recorded instances of B-29s performing close air support missions against the IJA like how the 8th Air Force in the European Theater performed the CAS mission in support of Operation Goodwood and Cobra?

I know that having bad things happen to you when you were ruling might make people question your heavenly mandate, but if there was a war going on and things were looking REALLY bad would people start thinking, "Hey, things are looking super bad for this guy, let's just give up hope since clearly heaven hates him" or would they stay loyal to the emperor since he wasn't dead yet, after all, maybe things would turn around? Or let's say the emperor appointed someone to a position and the person was super incompetent/corrupt and people started to notice; would they think, "Oh, this guy is really corrupt and incompetent, we need to let the emperor know" or would they think, "Well, the emperor appointed him, and the emperor is the son of heaven and all, maybe he knows something that we don't,"I am confused.

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A recent, odd source (a let's play of modded Civilization based around Metal Gear Solid) made me curious about the man. I was sort of aware of him because he's been cast as evil, and often outright demonic, in many pieces of fiction, and from the playthrough I get the 'real' reason why. So, assuming I recall correctly and it was presented semi-accurately, a young Oda was basically a semi-wastrel, but his worst 'crime' was hanging out with 'lesser people', not caring about this fact: he just liked people for who they were. Some teacher of his he respected decided to kill himself to shame Oda for this and make Oda "grow up"; Oda proceeded to 'grow up' by trying to take over Japan, and worse, doing it in the most effective way instead of the 'proper' way. The reason he's still being literally demonized centuries later is he basically told Japan's history of rigid social orders they could all go take a leap, and succeeded immensely because of it. In essence, he offended Japan's devotion to its concepts of ingroups and outgroups based on arbitrary sociological viewpoints (see: buraku) so badly they're still making him pure evil to this day.

So, how accurate is this? What's the closest we can get to the whole story?