I’m trying to read a lot this summer. Any classic go to history books you can suggest. Preferably European or American history. Thanks.

I've been watching a lot of L&H on YouTube, and I'm laughing at parts where I think "would they find this particular thing funny back in the 30's?" Also, when were the first dirty jokes in films, and would it have been acceptable to laugh at them?

Can anyone recommend the top books on reading about the traditionalist and revisionist view points of dropping the bomb on Hiroshima? Just getting into this subject and wanted to read more but get a balanced view point.

Thanks in advance

I work at a museum and we are trying to locate the original owner of a Model T we have on display. The only registration information we have is a Florida certificate of motor vehicle title on a placard inside of the vehicle. We are trying to find some way to look up this number of this car. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Sacking and looting of cities wasn't (to my impression) exactly uncommon in older times, and there's a lot of examples to be found from around the world during the Middle Ages (some notable examples just off the top of my head being Constantinople in 1204, Vijayanagar and Antwerp during the 1500s), but I don't think I ever heard of cities being sacked during the medieval period in Japan. Are there documented events of this taking place during the Medieval period of Japan? (If not, what are possible explanations for this?

Could you argue that the crusades were defensive due to the retaliation following the muslim conquests of Jerusalem?

My roommate and I are watching the new Catch-22 series on Hulu (really worth the watch). The planes had a full set of gunners even though there were no Germans or Italians in the air at that time. Is that historically accurate because if true? Is that seems like a waste of humans lives because of the high causality rates particularly of ball and tail gunners.

I was thinking about the Socrates quote "No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable"

It made me wonder what specific physical training would somebody like him be doing. As strength is mentioned would something we could recognise as resistance training have been performed and if so what equipment/apparatus would have been involved?

I know during the Viking age jewelry was used in trade and social rank displays. I am curious about the use of bronze vs silver in the social hierarchy. Would bronze arm rings and jewelry be considered more elite over silver because it shows you have wealth but don't need to barter because it wasn't commonly used for currency? Would Silver be considered more high status to be covered in because it shows physical wealth on hand you could hack up and use?

Thanks for any responses. Would really like to know where bronze and silver fall in the social hierarchy!

From "Fallout: A post nuclear RPG" to "the Simpsons", the association between nuclear waste and the colour green is pretty ubiquitous in western popular culture. Where does this connection come from, and why has it become so powerful?

Würden Historiker heute Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Waldstein, deutsch oder tschechisch nennen?

Ich weiß, dass er böhmisch war, und dies war vor der Gründung oder Vereinigung eines modernen Deutschlands, der Slowakei und der Tschechischen Republik. aber was würde er heute in Betracht ziehen?

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I sometimes call World War I a "nation-breaking" war, because how its death toll and other sacrifices pushed nations to their limits of endurance. It broke the Ottoman Empire, it broke Austria-Hungary, it nearly broke France, it would have broken Italy had not the Allies propped it up, and it finally broke Germany. It also broke Czarist Russia. But the USSR survived far greater losses in World War II. Why was the Soviet regime able to survive what the Czar could not?

• France also repealed sodomy laws (hence legalising same-sex sex?) in 1791. Was this due to a lack of religious influence?
• Was it safe to be known as a homosexual publicly?
• Was the idea of homosexual partnership and love ever considered valid (as opposed to heterosexual marriage)?

It seems pretty clearly established that his sadistic son tortured sportsmen who represented Iraq and lost. If you were, say, the 30th best Iraqi footballer and close to being picked for the team, why wouldn't you just play a bit worse?

In another subreddit, it was claimed that he intentionally starved 4 million Indians.

I’ve also heard that he was in favour of gassing Iraqi citizens, but have heard of a counter argument that says he was talking about tear gas here.

Can anyone shed any light please?

I just finished watching Martin Scorsese's film Silence and reading a bit about the history behind it, and I'm curious -- why did the Jesuits have such success spreading Christianity to the Philippines but not to other countries in the area, specifically China and Japan?