So I found a primary source in a book and need to reference it in my footnotes and bibliography. I have never done this and so confused. If you can help or provide a good website that would be helpful. It’s recommended to be in Chicago format Thanks

I would assume that exact percentages probably aren't known but I've always wondered if ancient Roman wine or Egyptian beer would knock a modern person on their butt or if it would be the other way around?

I can't find a reference to when in the year it took place, not even a broad mention of a season such as spring or summer.

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And how much would he be worth today, given inflation? Are today's modern day billionaires worth more?

It thought I should come here to look for help on this topic. I’m just looking for some online sources on the opium wars. Articles, newspapers, and other websites would help.

I can't help but wonder when I see lists of famous works that we know exist from classical antiquity, but are thought to be lost, does anything new of significance get discovered these days? Something like a lost chapter of Livy, a biography by Plutarch, or a play by Aristophanes?

I would think it must be very rare as almost every document from the era would have long since disintegrated. My understanding is the most writing from the world of classical antiquity is lost, unless enormous effort was undertaken throughout the ages to save it. Monks or some of the other tiny population of literate people had to recopy by hand everything they wanted to preserve every hundred years or so. And so any writing that does survive from that era is more like the 20th recopy by someone 1500 years later than an original from the time. As such, even if a new historical site is excavated, they might find pottery, but wouldn't find a treasure trove of ancient scrolls.

Is my understanding correct and that everything lost likely to remain lost, or does new stuff ever come to light? What was the most significant discovery in recent times along these lines?

So a month ago I stumbled upon a extract of a documentary about pre-ww1 Europe. It showed the Kaiser motivating his troops to go suppress the boxer rebellion in China. But in the comments, a bunch of people were claiming it was anti German allied propaganda and that the so called "Hun speech" never took place. Is that true ?

So I found a primary source in a book and need to reference it in my footnotes and bibliography. I have never done this and so confused. If you can help or provide a good website that would be helpful. It’s recommended to be in Chicago format Thanks

The title is the main question, but yeah I’m wondering!

I am currently working on my undergraduate thesis and I need to inform myself thoroughly about the social, political and cultural context of France during the Bourbon Restoration. The topic of my thesis is the relationship between ideology and literary product in Stendhal's novel "Rouge et noir", so I'm mainly interested in gathering information about the ideologies at the time and their influence on the different layers of society. I could use sources in French, English or Spanish.

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I highly appreciate any suggestions!

I often see mesoamericana pre-Columbian societies referred to as “Stone Age” though I’ve also heard of instances of metalworking. Does this metalworking extend to tools such as axes and machetes? If not, what kind of rock would their society use for axe heads; granite, tuff, flint, et cetera? Or was their method of dealing with the jungles and bush land just to burn it?

After reading up on the INF treaty, I see that it only applies to ground-based weapons, and only those with a 500-5000km range.

I have not been able to find any commentary on why this is the case...

Why was it productive to limit these ranges, while allowing ICBMs and marine system to continue?

Is there a particular way in which this limitation changed the political climate at the time for the better despite the obviously uncovered cases?

Was it simply a gesture of good faith without much meaning since the others were still allowed?

Was it a matter of settling for whatever you could get?

Given the unfortunate reach and cultural influence that Holocaust deniers have had on public understanding of the Holocaust, how have they impacted legitimate scholarly research into the subject?

Have the 'questions' posed by deniers (such as claiming that gas chambers were for delousing) led to more thorough research into specific aspects of the Holocaust?

Has Holocaust denial from within academia damaged or otherwise complicated the professional understanding of the Holocaust?

How has the Academic response to Holocaust deniers' claims changed over the past several decades, and what role have historians played in shaping the public image of the Holocaust?

How have the academic responses to Holocaust denial influenced the efforts of other researchers to combat denialism in other subjects, such as Vaccine Denial and AIDS Denial?

How was Erwin Rommel viewed after WW2? Where the allied leaders (and the world) just as disgusted by him as by (for example) Himmler or Mengele? Or since he hated Hitler and wanted to make peace with the Allies did they view him more fairly?

Was Europe less racist, etc.

I was always under the impression that money wouldn't exist in Communist societies. After reading that someone who designed an aeroplane was rewarded with rubles, this got me thinking about the role of money in every day life. Could people actually go out and buy things and how would this affect how they were viewed by security services? How did the role of money change over the course of the USSR?