What was the impact of Opium addiction on the Chinese during the period of the Opium Wars. Was it as bad or worse than the current opioid epidemic?

The 1930s was a world wide depression and Germany had repetitions that were doubling down on them.

So how in the 30s did Germany afford to build up their war machine?

What is the best resources on Native American history prior to European arrival?

Basically looking for info on their lifestyle, diet, origins, geographic migrations, inter-actions amonst tribes and etc

I am not from America so I have never learnt about him really. Now being a little older, I am little more interested. However, this particular topic seems to be a part of history tied deeply to partisan politics, with one side stating he is a historicaly great man with almost no flaws, and the other crying perfect example of the uniquely brutal western colonialism.

This makes it very difficult to know what to think of the man as I can't tell what is fact and what is politically influenced.

If any Redditors can help in clarifying if he was evil, a product of his time, missrepresented hero, or something else entirely I would greatly appreciate it.

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Interesting question posed by a friend of mine. I've studied witch trials in early modern Europe (and that one big incident in the States), but this is a bit out of my scope. I couldn't come up with a solid answer for her other than that 'sorcerers' were typically more revered in that time, and that the witch trials, at least in Europe/America, were mostly egged on by Christian teachings against witches, fear/superstition, and a heaping dose misogyny. However, I don't feel like that even begins to accurately cover it, or sufficiently answer her question. SO. What say you, fellow historians of reddit? Why was Jesus not tried and executed as a witch?

I've took a pretty huge interest in the Steppe warlords lately and would like to read the definitive biographies on each person.

Roughly 8 years ago I encountered a number of sources trying to disabuse me of the notion that you were lucky to make it to 40 in antiquity (let's use first century Romans for a referent). The thrust of the sources was that including infant mortality was skewing the numbers and that if you made it to adulthood you would likely live into your 60s and 70s. Now I'm seeing sources saying, naw naw, even if you made it to adulthood you could only be expected to hit 45 or so.

So which is it? Were you doing ok in first century Rome if you hit 45? Or is that still lowballing it?

Thanks for any help.

From what I understand, CIA would frequently provide Soviet currency to their Soviet spies for operational needs or as a payment. But how would CIA acquire those rubles? From my understanding, it wasn't possible to just exchange them.

So this might be a little too specifically related to one area and I’ve struggled to really find much information on it so I’m not sure really that there is any

Basically I’ve read that contrary to popular belief that celts in Britain moved to only Scotland, Wales and the ones that lived in Ireland when Britain was invaded they also lived in Cornwall and Cumbria

Supposedly Cumbria had a language similar to welsh called Cumbric

My question really is if this is the case, that celts were also in Cumbria and Cornwall why are the Celtic languages and I suppose accents as well completely erased?

Did they engage in many of the acts written in Shakespeare’s plays with adults? If so, was this act of pedophilia one of the reasons the Puritans condemned the Theatre?

Shouldn't there be some correlation? Father land is a term mostly connected with Germany after all.

I'm currently listening to some Celtic music that has bagpipes in it, and then this hit me.

I am doing some personal research on ideologies that have helped shape the modern age and would like to find literature that encapsulates these ideas from all angles. I live in the U. S., and am familiar with the capitalist democratic system we have, but would like to find literature that holds the same weight as the communist manifesto, but towards capitalism (I am currently reading the communist manifesto). Is this even a possibility given the nature of capitalism?

Literature regarding other ideologies that have held similar influence to these to are definitely a plus! But at the current moment my research is comparing and contrasting Capitalist VS. Communist).

Did it start with Snidley Whiplash in Dudley Do-Right, or was that a parody of a pre-existing trope?

Hello AskHistorians!

This isn't part of the usual questions that are asked here, but I wanted to ask professionals about this, and I suppose this could fall into the category of "historiography".

Basically, I'm about to start reading bibliography for my PhD in Ptolemaic History, and I wanted to ask how true historians deal with working with vast amounts of bibliography. How do you manage them? Do you ahve a system? Do you write summaries of articles and books, or hope you remember everything? Do you write notations of pdf's, or print the articles, note and store them for later reference? How do you deal with "I want to remember this for later" when "later" is two years down the line?

I have some experience with dealing with bibliography thanks to the numerous essays of my Uni's and Master's Degree, specially the final thesis of both of them, but I feel I need to be more organized and thorough with the PhD. Right now I'm thinking about doing a big folder and inside different folders according to different topics, and store the pdf's there with an adjunct Word document in which to write a summary and any observations I want to remember.

So, in essence, the question would be: how do historians work with bibliography, with reading, understanding and storing the important info for later use when writing?

Thank you in advance for your responses!