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If you look at old talking movies, everyone act with strange accents and overly dramatic emphasis. When did acting become more “realistic” in today’s standards?

I was looking at books related to Korean history about that time period and the 2 that caught my eye was "A Concise History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present" and "Korean History in Maps: From Prehistory to the Twenty-First Century".

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Are there any other books, documentary, video series or podcast that relates to Korean history from the Joseon dynasty?

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In terms of pop culture, there are a lot of Korean dramas that are set in that time period, but I find it personally difficult as a student to always know what is historically accurate and what is just for the sake of the plot.

To my understanding, non-western societies typically eat from communal dishes, whereas westerners are accustomed to having individual servings, particularly when dining out. How did this convention develop? Thanks!

I havent heard about this before until last week, and its mindboggling that a sitting vice president actually dueled the founding father, and managed to kill him.

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How was this recieved by the general public and then the other founding fathers, both on the duel and the aftermath?

Right so there's three main points we get taught in High School in America about the subject.

1. Socialism just doesn't work (Which in my research means that their planned economy failed)
2. The American government outspent the Soviets??? (I have been told that this is us just taking credit for the work of the people living under the Iron Curtain)
3. The people decided to secede, and the USSR suffered economic collapse, which is confusing for multiple reasons. Firstly, what kind of economic collapse outright destroys a nation?

Anyway, I guess to be more nuanced if I'm not too much already, is the Russian Federation a continuation of the Union? If not, who exactly decided to just make the nation a democracy with a capitalist system?

i want to write a wild west story, but i’m not sure how they talked. anyone?

New to this subreddit, is there any information on code talkers and missions they performed or contributed to during the 6 month period of storming Normandy to Battle of the bulge? Specifically the European theatre and not the pacific theatre. I’m looking for actual missions, names, dates and divisions.

I currently have in my possession almost every code talker book still in print but they don’t go into detail in regards to missions and divisions they were placed in especially the dates I’ve requested for.

When the weather isn't conducive to going outside we in the modern world are very lucky that we have computers, TVs, videogames and books to keep us entertained. But I started to wonder: how did people in the pre-modern era stay entertained? Particularly people living in a region where the winters are particularly harsh and where daylight can be extremely limited. How, for example, would a Medieval Scandinavian - especially one not able to read or write - keep him or herself entertained with none of the benefits of modern technology, nor even the ability to read a book?

Basically, once we Americans began to come to what is now the US, how long did it take is to evolve to our current dialect? I've noticed a lot of movies that take place during the Revolutionary War and even Civil War are split between us still having a somewhat English accent, or sounding basically like the Americans we do now