Hello!

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Next school year I will be a junior taking CL American History. I know that juniors taking this class at my school have to write a thesis paper on some aspect of American history (I don't know exactly how long it must be). What are some good topics to write about that have a strong historical background and modern-day relevance, and are well-known but not overdone?

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Thank you in advance!

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Cheers,

Nicole

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I know it's because they were both muslim majority areas, but why did the british think it was fine to create a state with two roughly equal areas so separated from each other? Why didn't they just create two muslim states?

Say I had a time machine, but no universal translator, how far back in time could I travel before I wouldn’t be able to speak or read the language?

Wikipedia says the first translation of the Qu'ran from Arabic into Latin occurred in 1143, and was followed by many more translations into European languages over the following centuries - was this mostly a matter of scholarly interest, or was their popular interest in the Islamic holy text?

As the title says this is what I read from a book and I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on this?

I'm currently in the process of (re)claiming a piece of my past that my ancestors decided to put aside - to whit, the Irish language. I feel that being able to speak the words alone isn't enough, though; I want to know who my ancestors were, what they did, why they did it, and what that means for me.

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Here's the thing, though. There's, ah, quite a bit of let's call it 'static' in between me and what I'm looking for. Quite apart from having to deal with my friends cracking jokes about leprechauns, potatoes, and whisky, there's some pretty tense stuff around Northern Ireland, and then there's all the hissing, crackling, and general spitting around the Irish in the 19th Century (which, conveniently enough, is when my family left the Old World to head Downunder). And then again there's all the ... New Age ... stuff. Fairies and the land of the young and pretty immortal otherworldly beings that might as well have sparkly skin.

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I'd love to be able to cut through the static and dig into some concise, coherent resources that don't fall into any of the above traps. I want to learn Irish stories - but I want to learn the stories they told each other. I want to learn about Irish history - but I want to learn about it without being subject to extraterritorial nationalism, or misty-eyed mysticism, or victim olympics.

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I'm hoping someone here might be able to point me toward some good resources (ideally ones I can access via public library, given that I'm not a uni student myself), or perhaps even give me a rundown on how to spot the "static" and how to work through it to find useful and relevant information.

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All I know of the subject is that he was shot in the neck during the Spanish Civil War, and that the Soviet Union had heavy involvement in the recruitment of Internationalists.

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NZ has a 150 year old treaty signed by both the British and Maori, preserving Maori traditional rights. The treaty and rights persist to this day. Why was this so different from Australia, Canada, US etc.. None of the other colonized countries had any treaty with the local peoples.

I dunno how to phrase this properly, but there is a notion that permeates a lot of society, and I know it isn't a new one, so I hope this doesn't break the 20-years-rule.

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We idealize democracy and freedom as a Western concept, and tend to demonize things like, say, the Persian Empire. Our whole notion of the "Middle-East" is basically everything from Tibet to southern Poland.

We even pretend that Europe and Asia aren't the same continent, despite nothing really separating them.

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the New Zealand shooter (Thank God people aren't posting his evil name) had the whole notion written over his rifle and magazines.

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So... How do you educated folks tend to discuss that?

EDIT: Curriculum, student life, etc

Was pre-colonial Africa mostly farmers before Europeans came or were hunter-gatherers larger then it was today?

It might seem broad but I really would like to know when societies started formalizing the education system. Was public school a thing in Rome? Was it a thing in ancient China?

My theory is that standardized education came fairly recently (save universities and higher education, I’m talking developmental years) as a means to control the population. Not in a malicious sense but as a way to make society better and better.

Thanks y’all

As evidenced by the United States and Soviet Union’s acquisition of Nazi scientists and engineers for technological gain, the V2 rocket, Enigma Code, and many more, it is obvious that the Nazis were very well ahead of their time in terms of technology and science.

Why is it that the Nazis were such pioneers in so much of the technology we use today?

Wikipedia give little information on the interaction between Kongo and the Portuguese. they Portuguese did create the Kingdom of Kongo for the most part. but what exactly did they change or give that was not present before they came?

While looking at a picture of the Declaration of Independence, I noticed that upper case S was written as S but lower case s was written as f most of the time. Occasionally a lower case s would be written as s. Why was f used for lower case s and when did printers shift to using s for s?

I understand this is a broad and somewhat biased sounding question, but I couldn't think of a better way to frame it.

Did the Founding Fathers or other American leadership during the American Revolution profit from the outcome of the war? Was there a segment of society that did?

Hello, all! So, I was at school today and one of my classmates stumbled across a photo in the 1969 yearbook of a student holding up a sign. The sign said “KKK for Wallace” with swastikas in between the K’s. I’ll post an image of it later, but I’m curious as to what this means? I know the relevance of George Wallace in the 1960’s but can’t figure out how a high schooler in Michigan would tie into an Alabaman governor. Thanks!

I have recently came upon the topic of sortition and it seemed interesting to me as a way to "fix" democracy. When talking with a friend about it he mentioned that it was used in ancient greek polises and it very often plunged the polis into chaos and even war between factions. After some searching I couldn't find something to back up his claims. Upon reading the Wikipedia page for sortition I see only Athens listed as a greek polis using the sortition method around 6th century BCE.

Did ancient Athens experience a greater deal of political instability related to other polises which used the more known method of elections?

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