I have been reading an interesting book on the organisation of gender, sexuality and race in 1930s Chicago which draws attention to how PoC were stigmatised and feared for not conforming to hetero-patriarchal ideals of family. It cites some interesting sources around how social services and welfare essentially tried to bully African Americans into assimilating with the white middle class American family values of that time. It even accounts for a racially diverse queer scene that emerged in an African American neighbourhood on the south side, and represents African Americans at that time as being much more free in terms of gender and sexuality. I don’t know how how accurate this is so feel free to challenge me.

However, my question is whether anyone here has come across any sources that consider similar trends in Britain. I’ve found a lot of interesting stuff around sexuality and race in British colonies but struggling to find much in the way of a black queer history in Britain itself. Everything I’m reading suggests that people of colour had already assimilated with such values before arriving here. That said, I’m aware that history is whitewashed so if anyone has any sources that suggest otherwise I’d love to hear.

Edit: the book is called 'Aberrations In Black: Toward A Queer Of Color Critique' by Roderick Ferguson

Recently binge watched this and it made me so sad and frustrated. Reagan Truman Byrnes Eisenhower Hoover Nixon Kissinger to name a few all seem like sociopathic mad men. I can't help but wish and wonder what could have been if Henry Wallace didn't get robbed of the nomination and if Churchill could calm down a little and work better with Stalin. Or if Roosevelt managed to hang on a few more months. Thanks in advance

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I am fairly new to reddit and I need informations on this subject.

I am a writer, and I would like to know what the difference between a shinobi and ninja are.

I am fairly in my beginning steps of what I had planned but it'll be about a story between spies, rivals and their nerworks. So, with that being said. What are the differences? I only know that a shinobi is a male spy/agent? And the kunoichi is the female version of it? (Don't know if that is true or not) and that a ninja is a shinobi that is send to assassinate a target?

That's basically all I know, is this all right or is there more than that about the differences of shinobi and ninja?

I don't know much about feudal Japan and it's periods but I always liked the Ninja as a child.

Thank you for your read.

Interested in seeing if there is any historiographical change on the morality of the raids from authors writing before and after the Vietnam war.

Can any respected member kindly explain in simple terms as to what was Foucault's theory of discontinuity in history?

My grandfather has this story that he was in a cafe with a former British soldier involved in the Pacific theater and that the British officer was talking about being in Borneo during the early to mid part of the war. Halfway through his story, a german man stops him and tells him not only that he was there, but that the german troops were about to ambush the retreating british army. All of this happened in a cafe in Argentina which makes it a incredible coincidence. My question is, how possible is this? My grandfather gets forgetful on the details but there was some truth to this. That British soldier married into our family, his kids are my dads second cousins. Also my grandfather isn't senile or anything like that, this just happened in the 70s so I know it's a partially true story.

I'm assuming it was nothing like in the movies where there is a battle going on and archers are firing volleys in to the middle of the fighting. Did the archers only fire when none of their men were in the vicinity of their targets? If so were they more so used as a defensive tool to stop a sieging army?

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Edit: If I'm not mistaken, I believe that the english longbowmen were among the most effective so I guess I would like to have my previous questions aimed towards how they operated.

I've heard that they never met and I've also heard that they kept a correspondence. I assume if they both lived in the same city at the same time they must have met.

The USA had her Wild West. Russia, on the other hand, got her Wild East. Two dangerous frontiers where only the toughest could survive. So far, we know a lot about cowboys, both facts and popular misconceptions that created tropes and fashions. Do Russians have an equivalent of their own? You know, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Bass Reeves, Billy the Kid and the likes?

I'm not even sure what this practice is called-- I thought it was battlefield forensics, but Googling suggests that's something else....

Anyways, I've read a few papers where large numbers of corpses exhumed from historical battlefields were examined for cause of death. As a video game player and fantasy nerd, I thought these were really interesting-- like for instance, it was fascinating just how many people were apparently killed by thrown rocks, I remember that being hugely more deadly than, say, spears.

But I've only read two, and I was suddenly concerned that I might be getting a slanted view by not reading more. I'm interested in renaissance battles and earlier, not so much in modern stuff. Probably can't pierce any paywalls, but maybe I can find a way via sci-hub.

Any recommendations?

When I was younger, I was told that these kinds of walls were purely defensive, and this view was certainly backed by fictional media like Mulan, the Abhorsen books and A Song of Ice and Fire.

Later on I was told they played more of an economic or physical deterrent role: they either acted as traffic controls and toll sites, or acted to make it less feasible for raiders to cross the border and bring plunder back with them.

I'm aware that it would be quite infeasible to man the entire length of a wall like this for any extended period of time, but I am curious to know: what would the daily operations of a wall like this look like? How was it employed? And what kind of role would it have played in the society of the people affected by it?

I'm looking into Italy and the economic miracle and was wondering how were they able to come back so fast and quickly after ww2?

Spanish (or Castillian) was the vernacular language of the kingdom of Castille, similarly is Portugese from the kingdom of Portugal. The country of Spain is comprised of the former kingdoms of Castille, Leon, Aragon, Valencia, Galicia, and probably a few others if I recall correctly. Do we have any records of those vernaculars?

Up until the late 19th century, modern Italy was a collection of smaller kingdoms. Did they all have their own vernaculars of Latin?

French, the vernacular of the Franks. What vernaculars were in that region?

Did the Vandals bring a vernacular into North Africa?

So far Ive bought a helmet that looks like Wwii (but not really, its more like a camo helmet but its the best I could find) so that I can pretend to be a soldier when explaining some things

I also could buy a morse code telegrapher, but what other items can I reasonably buy?

Id like more things that look more authentic, but obviously, I dont have a lot of money to buy too many things

Does anyone have any suggestions of things I could buy, stores I could go to, or even guides on making certain things?

Thanks!

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I know Julius Caesar supposedly sailed down the Nile with Cleopatra but I haven't seen any accounts of what they say or of them interacting with the people. Are there any detailed accounts of Roman expeditions down the Nile?

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It is widely known that there was extensive intermarriage in Spanish colonies in the Americas, right from the beginning, between newly arrived colonists (mainly men) and local Amerindians (mainly women). This seems to have happened rather seamlessly and spontaneously, it was tolerated by the local authorities and incentivized by the Catholic Church. However, this seems to have been a phenomenon typical of Spanish colonies, occurring rarely in Portuguese, Dutch, French and English colonies. Why was this? What motivated this very specific Spanish attitude towards the natives? In particular, why wasn't the Catholic Church in French and Portuguese colonies capable of promoting the integration of recently converted Amerindian populations into the fabric of colonial society?

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Thanks a lot.

I've always dabbled in history (my grandfather left me a crap-ton of books on ancient cultures), but after playing through Assassin's Creed: Odyssey I have a newfound interest in ancient Greece.

Can anyone recommend a general history of the Greco-Persian and Peloponnesian wars? Nothing that goes into too much detail, but gives an overall rundown of events?

I was reading about the camp for an assignment, and it says that "soviet troops approachedthe camp in January 1945 and most of the prisoners were sent west on a death march". Are these war crimes? Was it the Jews and poles that were sent on this march?