Do phones still use operators? Do I have access to cassettes and VHS, or are these too expensive for the average college student? Did I have to go into debt for this degree? What is dorm life like? Are there meal plans and the like?

Thank you all!

I was thinking back about a special I saw on the history channel (back when those were aired) about Sun Tzu's the art of war and the documentary made a claim that the United States in Vietnam made some strategic error that the Germans did in Russia in World War 2. The overall idea was that both sides were playing two totally different games, the losers in either case were using a so called chess strategy where there is a king which could be either a capital city or a leader or anything like that and you win the game by fighting your way to the king and taking it; meanwhile the winners were using a so called go strategy. I don't know what go is or how to play but according to the special the overall point was that the winners were more concerned with how much territory was held be either side.

So if this chess strategy sucks so bad why were the US and German generals using it? And if it's a problem of wrong tools for the situation how would the go strategy if in some bizzaro alternate universe where Stalin was fighting to conquer France in World War 1 united with some German communist Reich or whatever fall apart compared to the chess strategy of France and the Allies?

Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor was one of the mightiest weapons in mythology. It became to the Norse the principle symbol of their faith, and they wore it on jewelry like Christians wear the Cross. Does anyone know if the Norse used hammers in war? If not, why was it the primary weapon of one of their fiercest war Deities? (the Æsir)

I’m looking for a detailed explanation as to how the Nazis weren’t really Socialist despite their name, I know they aren’t but I am looking for sources to argue against an idiot.

Was no facial hair a part of their culture or were they incapable of growing facial hair??

I just watched this horrible old western called "Gunslinger", and there's a subplot about a group of dancing girls who would perform there regularly for the patrons of the saloon. They had a routine and a piano player and some fantastic outfits...the whole nine yards. This trope is extremely common in westerns. In some cases it's obvious they are meant to be "advertising" prostitution; in others like in Gunslinger, it's semi-implied but not really explicit.

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So how common was this? Could a patron in the late 1800's expect to be able to walk into a saloon in Nevada City or Kansas City on a weekend and see a performance?

I've read about Hitler being on drugs, and that the nazis used drugs regularly to "enhance" or dumb down their soilders ect. I've always thought of this as a bit too much speculation, would love to get to the bottom of this.

P.S Love this sub!

To clarify, I'm asking for historical reasons why we can't pinpoint the identity of the Huns.

They are not certainly not unique in being a group we only know about through historical records written by outsiders. There are dozens of groups like that whose identity we can surmise.

They are also not the only group whose language only survives through a handful of words, mostly names of people and places. The only real records we have of the Cimmerian language are proper names but we still identify them as Indo-European, even if we can't classify them any further. We at least have a pretty widely accepted theory about the Aquitani being the ancestors of the Basque people, even though we only know their language through names on funerary slabs. The Scythian language is almost completely unattested but we still identify them not just as Indo-European, but specifically as speakers of an Eastern Iranian language.

The Huns also occupied a pretty large territory, had a lot of contact with the Romans and other literate groups, and there are records of their presence in the Eastern Empire for almost 400 years. We know that they signed treaties and made diplomatic relations with Romans, we have artifacts of their material culture, and we have a lot of knowledge about their way of life, and possibly even their religious beliefs.

So why are historians not able to classify the Huns, or determine their relationship to other groups? There are various proposals that they're Indo-European (maybe Germanic), Turkic, Mongolic, Yeniseian, Tungusic, somehow related to the Xiongnu, or an isolate. Why can't we confirm or discredit these theories? What's keeping us in the dark?

Hey, not the usual type of question but it is still a question that can best be answered by historians so yeah. So I’ve decided to make a career change and am going to college to hopefully end up as a history professor teaching on a college level. What are the steps? What type of schools do you have to go in? What do you specifically have to major in? Etc.

I am not sure if this is the right sub, and if not, please do point me in the right direction.

Anyways, my question is what is the connection between Camille Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre and Sherlock Holmes?

This has been used for a number of Sherlock Holmes radio and TV shows (Imagination Theater and the 1984 show starring Jeremy Brett an earlier radio show maybe, respectively) as well as Sherlock Holmes like shows such as Jonathan Creek. I am sure there are others as well.

Is it just using previous shows to build off of, or is there something deeper?

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I've seen articles about fashion and theater there. but what was life like for a normal German there?

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My history teacher just told us about “A Night at the Garden,” and I was wondering why they were flying a 13 star version of the American flag.

We all have some idea of what life was like in occupied France during the Second World War, no doubt due to the many depictions of this period in film and other media. When it comes to World War One, most people have heard of atrocities committed by the German Army in occupied Belgium. But it seems like occupiedbFrance in this period is somewhat of a blindspot, at least to some of us in the English-speaking world.

What was life like in those areas of France occupied by Germany in WWI? Were similar atrocities carried out against the civilian population? Was there an equivalent of the famous French Resistance of the later war? Did this have a lasting effect on the culture and the economy of these regions after the war?

Hello having an recently interest in easter roman empire /byzantium I keep reading about how MANY civil wars they had from the start till the fall of the city, so iam wondering does anyone know how many exactly where the civil wars? It's really astonishing to consider that an empire that fought so many enemy's while having constantly civil wars manage to survive for a 1000 years

One of the biggest misses I've seen in historical depictions of their future (our current era) is assuming that clothing would dramatically change.

Is this due to artistic whimsy on the part of the creators, or has our current clothing style run longer than many others have, historically?