I was wondering the Romans organized the grain dole, especially how they managed to determine that a person was eligible to receive a share and know that they didn't get more than a share by "getting back in line" or something like that.

I've read that the Romans actually named "The Picts" in Northern Scotland when they invaded. And the name just stuck. I'm wondering if anyone knows the original name the Northern Highland Scottish people called themselves, prior to 1000AD? Ideally, going back to their earliest known history.

I know that the Vikings actually were the first to stumble upon America, but was that a European reported event? I know Columbus actually discovered it by “accident” when looking for India, but how common knowledge was it that America(whatever it was at the time) had been discovered by the Vikings?

I have always loved history and I wanna pursue a job that taps into that passion. I was curious if anyone had any insight about working in the Historical preservation field and/or anything about getting a associates degree or something of that nature in the field? All response are welcome though.

From an outside perspective it seems to me that the two halves were vastly different and might have benefited from being able to assign their own laws.

Where as today, it seems many southern states have an issue with things like marijuana legalization and gay marriage, couldn't this issue have been resolved if the country did split into the Union and the Confederacy?

If this is the wrong sub to ask about this, just let me know and I'll delete this post.

I'm in my sophomore year. I'm so scared about getting my undergraduate degree and being unable to find a job, like I'm sure most people in college are, but I was hoping I could take up a minor that may help me get hired. Do you historians have any suggestions?

I recently spoke to my grandfather's older brother. He's a WW2 veteran, having served as an Infantryman with the British in Burma. This got me thinking. Where were Indian soldiers usually sent during WW2? How long would their deployments be? How likely was it that they would actually fight instead of being auxiliary support? For reference, my great-uncle is a Pashtun from North Western Pakistan. He was born in 1924.

One of the elements of the U.K.'s 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill outlawed “gatherings around music characterized wholly or predominantly by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.” This was seen at the time as a push against "rave" culture or "techno" music events. So far as I know, people in the U.K. still go to raves featuring EDM that falls within this definition umbrella. Was this law just not enforced? If it was, how did rave culture in the U.K. get around this law following this Act's passage in 1994?

Specifically in the United States, Canada and Great Britain.

Were the details commonly known, or did most folks just know that it existed and sank? Were there conspiracy theories about its loss? Was it a common pop culture touchstone for other stories?

To specify, I'm looking for something written after (and even inspired by) the Crusades wherein the Muslims are our heroes and the Christians pare murderous pagan villains.

As the title reads, how did Columbian era explorers theorize that Native Americans got to North and South America? If not, when did the first hypothesis/theories spring up?

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I've found some attempts at translations but no pictures of the actual contents. Is this intentional? Why? Is this common practice to shield pictures of ancient artifacts from the public? I realize there's not enough resources to photograph everything old but surely this book has enough significance, even just for its age alone?

That's a bit of a followup to my own question, but if there were newspapers or an equivalent, were there also professionnal journalists?

Edit : And it should of course be "were", sorry for not having spotted that.

I am currently doing a short course on the Holocaust. The first few lectures dive into the history of antisemitism in Europe. Detailing the differences between Judaisim and Pagan faiths in being a monotheistic religion, and also having strict guidelines and laws that followers must abide by. It then discusses the Middle Ages when Jews were viewed as the accusers and crucifyers of Christ, of being personified in Judas Iscariot and later as being these mysterious, almost Satanic people who are believed to be working at besting Christian social groups by teaching their children to read and write at a very young age, and working economically to exploit the lower classes to assist the upper classes, inorder to gain powerful positions. It then moves on to the more secular times of the Enlightenment when antisemitism moves from being religiously/economically based to including scientific racism, that pushed Jewish people as being racially inferior and were viewed as trying to upset the natural order of racial hierarchy. It concludes the historical timeline with the stereotypes and prejudice seeping into folklore, literature, the arts and the many theories regarding Jewish people secretly organising to take over the world. Eventually it gets into Hitlers views on the Jewish people and his writing of Mein Kampf while being imprisoned for the failed Putsch coup d'etat.

I figured that the Jewish experience in European History up until that point (and after, obviously),would be fairly unique, given their identity encapsulating religion/culture/ethnicity/nationality - all in one. I was wondering if anyone could point me towards some interesting material that goes into the stereotypes and prejudice against Jewish people throughout European history, up until the beginning of WWII.