I have my great grandfather's diary he kept in his knapsack in the trenches during World War One on the Western front. I have the original (~102 years old), and would like to digitize this. I am attempting to find a museum that can digitize it correctly without damaging it (I was told that using a traditional scanner can damage old documents, makes sense). However, I have contacted a few museums (the National Infantry Museum and U.S. Army Heritage & Educational Center) and they have told me they are unable to digitize the document or unwilling. If any of you know of any place I can digitize the diary & donate the digitization/original, please let me know. I would greatly appreciate it.

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Also, I am currently in the Southeastern United States.

This may be more related to anthropology, but:

Just brief readings on Wikipedia indicate that the last migration of people from Old to New World occurred roughly 16,000 years ago, when people still lived in hunter-gatherer societies. This was the status quo for hundreds of thousands of years, prior. The agricultural revolution started only 10,000 years ago in the Middle East, long after these final migrations took place.

How is it that, despite nonexistent communication between the two sides of the globe, people on both sides independently developed civilizations at roughly similar time scales?

Even if you totally discount New World civilizations as lacking in complexity compared to the old world at the time of Spanish (re)discovery of the Americas, these timescales and differences are nearly insignificant when compared to the breadth of time that humans have existed overall.

Has there been any research into this topic? Is there an answer to this kind of question?

A Local to the pub i work in recently bought in a Yolande Dawson vs Cassius Clay poster which can be found on auction sights if you google that fight but there is no background information anywhere about this major fight that was going to occur or did occur. If anyone can help find any information on this it would be amazing help as we have looked for hours and auction sites have too with no leads.

Hi all--mods, please remove if this post is inappropriate, but I'm hoping to get a perspective from as many practising historians as possible and this seems like the place!

I'm an engineering grad student, and I've recently become involved in a project to analyze the economic success or failure of large engineering projects executed by the US government between 1960 and 2010. (I'm being a little vague, as the details of the project would make me pretty immediately identifiable--sorry.) Our focus is primarily on matters of project management, organizational culture, internal project politics, and government agency interactions with Washington politics. The engineering aspects are not very important to this research--it's nearly all historical analysis, with some limited quantitative analysis since the number of relevant cases is quite small.

I've been spending a lot of time reading lengthy, interconnecting documents written by different individuals and organizations, at different times, with varying agendas and access to information. I'm finding myself overwhelmed by all this information, and am struggling to effectively take and organize notes. I use Evernote extensively, but without any particular level of sophistication. Since this is largely an endeavor in historical research, I'm hoping some of the experts on this sub can offer me some recommendations or best practices in your field. Thank you very much in advance!

Preceding and during the Revolutionary War were can I find info about signals and signs that could lead a revolutionist to other revolutionary members. Warn others of British sightings or maybe, if it was safe to hide, in the barn? Things like that.

I was recently reading Victor Cherkashin's book Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer. He mentioned tracking a Soviet scientist who was passing information to the CIA. When the KGB finally arrested him, they discovered his apartment was full of millions of rubles. Cherkashin was amused by this and assumed the scientist couldn't think of any way to spend the money.

Which made me wonder: if an ordinary Soviet citizen came into a million rubles (legally or illegally), how could they spend it? What options in terms of consumerism and bribery would be available to make life more comfortable? Would a sudden increase in spending alert the authorities? How much of a difference would it make, in terms of consumerism, for the millionaire to be in or out of the party? At the end of the day, would having this money be more of a headache than it was worth?

For the time period, I'm most interested in the Khrushchev and Stagnation periods. After the chaos of Stalin and the war, but before glasnost and the first entries of western companies.

I always wondered, why swiss soldiers were so successful (until guns joinded the game). I know, they had really good tactics, but they were also famous for there ruthless and merciless "behaviour" on the battlefield. The won battles against armies, which were a lot bigger than their own, especially against the austrians. Later they were feared for there efficiency as mercenaries. But why were they so good? They were often poor farmers from the alps, so what made them such an efficient force?

Having watched a lot of Band Of Brothers recently, I'm curious about the likelihood of US and UK airborne troops meeting up and working together during the Invasion of Normandy.

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Fiction shows thousands of paratroopers jumping into Normandy in June 1944. I've read accounts of troops becoming scattered across 100's of miles and unable to find their batallions.

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My question is what happened to those scattered paratroopers (US and British Forces). Was it likely they were caught by Germans, would they have been immediately executed? Is it feasible US and British Forces could have ended up finding each other and forming their own makeshift units?

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Any pointers on this would massively satisfy my curiosity, I've struggled to find clear records or books!

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I was curious what are the most popular books regarding slavery in the US? I am looking for some sources that really get into the details about what took place and relevant history surrounding the practice.

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In addition, do you have a recommendation for a book(s) on slavery in the Caribbeans and South America as well?

Were they bilingual in an effort to hold on to their culture? Did new slaves coming into plantations ensure at least a few slaves still knew the old languages?

I started up an old Civ game and began to wonder how my society functions. The ancient societies that I'm most familiar with practiced slavery in some form or another, is there a major ancient civilization that I can use as a model without practicing slavery?

For model UN this weekend jm incredibly unprepared and I need to come up with a war strategy.

Also how could the Soviets gain support from their surrounding countries during the war to aid?

Follow up: How were their wars financed? If they loaned money from foreign banks, did they adhere to their interests?

I've heard quite a few mentions of the Proto Indo-European language as being the oldest language that we have evidence for with some going even further and arguing that it was the very first language spoken by human beings - with the video game Far Cry Primal being one of the many pieces of media that has helped to attest to such a hypothesis.

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But how much do we really know about the language?

What evidence is there?

When and where was it spoken?

How many words, phrases or dialects are known and was it truly the very first human language?

How can I learn the detailed social life of Soviet Russia? Is there any impartial author/books who/which narrates the social life of soviet period ?

One actually succeeded while the other failed.