Hey historians! I'm looking for a good resource of Viking battles that happened throughout history or some of the more interesting events that happened within their time period. Anything to get me to learn more about Vikings rather than watching some show or reading the Wiki. Thanks!

So I was telling my girlfriend about an anecdote I'd heard in high school history. Where some people in London during the great plague believed that syphilis could cure or prevent the Black Death. I'm not sure how true this was but it ended up leading to a discussion about medieval sexual practices and hygiene etc. We came to wondering if people 'back then' were generally hairier then they are now.

I figured the best place to ask would be here. Today, western culture seems to have an aversion to body hair of all types. Especially on women. It's quite common for women to shave their legs, armpits, pubic regions etc. When did this trend start? Is it a relatively recent phenomena or is it something that people have always done?

I'm a visual learner, unfortunately, and I'm trying to do a bit of research of a long era and keep track of major and minor events that had a direct or indirect impact, as well as major players. I'm struggling to keep track of it due to aforementioned visual learning. Does anyone have any methods or tools they use while studying or researching they'd recommend, especially if they tend to benefit from visually interesting study methods like myself?

I have to admit to being no expert on this time period, but one thing that I have read is that the French would typically attack in a column formation, often overwhelming their enemy by sheer attrition. However, it seems like being right at the front of one of these columns would be tantamount to suicide. How were men chosen to be in the front row and how were they rewarded? I know Napoleon boasted that he could get men to risk their lives for pieces of metal and ribbon (medals) - was there a medal for being in the front row? Or perhaps men who survived could expect a promotion?

I am quite fascinated by former United States Vice President John Breckinridge. I was wondering if someone with extensive knowledge of Breckinridge and/or the History of the Commonwealth of Kentucky could explain the reasons why he ultimately decided to fight with the Confederacy againt the United States of America.

I've published in engineering journals before, and after some unrelated discussion I realized I have no idea how historians publish. How do you test a historical hypothesis? Do you have to rely on archeology? Are there other fields you rely on?

I understand why people wore clothing for warmth purposes, but it always fascinated me why humans made the shift to be unaccepting of public genitalia displays.

So, for centuries, it was common for Christian women to wear hair coverings. Women covering their hair is mentioned in the Bible, and the Virgin Mary is still usually depicted with her hair covered. Yet, it's very common for Christian women to no longer cover their hair, particularly Western women. I'm curious as to why. Is it linked to the social changes in women's status over the last century or so or something else?

This question came to me after looking up Oskar Schindler on Wikipedia and wondering if there were other saboteurs. Thank you!

I have searched fir the moment when the world, us in particular as Im American, found out about the holocaust. I would imagine it wouls be such a defining moment, but i cant find anything about it.

Did Pre-Columbian Native Americans in Maine know about and/or communicate with Natives in California?

I’m sure this must be a very hard question to answer, but is it known where that picture was taken? And if the tank is still sitting in that lake, or if it was captured and brought to a museum or scrapped or such? Thanks!

So in some books I read I hear about getting up at 5 am for sunrise... Now I have children and get them on the bus every morning and work starts at sunrise in summer that's nearly 630 depending on the year but not much earlier. Did the hour of the day used to be different IE what we see as noon used to be 2 or whatever. Or did they not do enough research and made the books completely inaccurate. I've seen it in several books but the names elide me currently. It's been a long day and this weird question popped up and I had to ask before I forgot it again... Thx ahead of time and sorry if this is a ridiculous question.

I’m just wondering how/when/why people who owned land began renting out their property/houses for people to live on/in.

By around that winter, the Soviets had a front with the Germans in Norway. As much as I know, the Germans didn't have a lot of troops on that front and it seems to me like the Soviet Union would've wanted to expand their influence into Norway.

Edit: to clarify, I mean go far into Norway, to Oslo, for example.