Hey, I was on reddit on the normal history section and people were saying that the treat of Versailles wasn't the bearer of bad news that I had been taught. They told me that the Germans could have easily paid for it, but I remember growing up and learning that the treaty devastated the German economy.

As the title says, would there have been brands of carriages as there are now with cars? When and where?

I know the Irish people put up a memorial statue for the tribe trying to help, I’m a native guy from Oklahoma (Indian territory at that time, probably), it astounds me that a Native American tribe could know about something happening on the other side of the world, and it was a busy point in time over here in the 1840’s (the Mexican-American War about the same time as the famine, then the Civil War just a short time after that)

Obviously, the internet has given us access to far more knowledge than ever before. Obviously, though, that information isn't always reliable. So, from a historians perspective, do you find it easier to find the information you need by searching the internet or using traditional methods of finding sources? ie: from a library or some other repository of written sources.

I believe that pets are a modern concept, so interactions with wild parrots might not be enough for them to learn how to repeat people. However, I was still wondering if there is any records of people discovering that those funky birds can talk.

To give an example.

During the battle of Crecy modern historians place the number of french troops at 20,000-30,000 whereas contemporary sources places the number of troops at 72,000 to 100,000 .

Furthermore the number given by the contemporary sources seems believable if we consider that during the Gallic Wars Vercingetorix commanded a field army of around 30,000 - 45,000 with a large Calvary contingent when the regions population was a fraction of medieval Frances population.

What’s the best resource for this topic? This has been ignored in every history class I had in high school and college. I want to know how bad it really was. I’ve read up on treatment of POWs in Japan and it lead me to ask this question. In addition to resources please feel free to share any specific historical facts you think are interesting. TIA

I see Korean Christian churches everywhere here in the PNW but I can't say that I've ever seen a Chinese or Japanese Christian Church.

As this battle followed the two month Siege of Vienna, and is the start of the Great Turkish War, what was the worst territorial possession lost by the Ottomans to the advancing Europeans? What was the oldest Ottoman territorial possession lost due to this war?

Good evening,

Can anyone recommend me a few choice books to learn —

1. A brief overview of Korean history from the beginning until current, preferably a smooth and condense read

2. A deeper, more detailed book on all aspects of modern Korean political history — Korean War and after?

Thanks!

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I’m not expecting people would know the when’s and where’s. But how aware were they that something was building up? Did everyone read the paper the next day and find out?

In the US, the Seven Years War is taught as the French-Indian War, but it involved every great European power at the time and was a global conflict. Doing some more reading about it I got to wondering why it wasn't truly considered the first "world war". To my knowledge, The Great War was retrospectively changed to World War 1 after World War 2 had occurred, but knowing that, why wouldn't they have changed the title of the Seven Years conflict to "world war 1" and claimed The Great War as "world war 2"? So on and so forth. Is it just semantics, or were there defining factors that separate the conflicts from falling into a similar category? I hope this question makes sense, sorry if it doesn't.

So I think we’ve all seen the movie, Captain Miller and a team go to rescue a guy who lost all his brothers and he’s the last one. But did it really happen? Most people would say , yes it was the Sullivan Boys, but I think there is another family who had 5 sons and 3 lost their lives (4 was captured and MIA but he was rescued). I forgot the name of the family, and I want to here the full story again.

I had a spanish teacher in high school that told our class that the reason Spaniards speak with a lisp in their accent is due to the fact that some Spanish king had a lisp. Apparently, everyone started speaking with a lisp, so they didn't make him feel bad (or something along those lines). Is this true? How could a whole population suddenly change their accents to this extent? (I really hope this isn't some random thing she made up, or I'm going to feel really dumb...)

Ok i know this is a seriously dumb question. This come from a debate me and my brother had about the rise of western civilization. I ask why is western culture so dominant? My opinions have been formed by the books Guns Germs and Steel and Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harai. I am by no means a history buff and from what i gather u guys probably don't like these books. If ur familiar with these books then u probably already know my arguments for "why white people rule the world" my question is simply, how debated is this topic. My brother argues that western civilization won because white people spread disease and stole all the important innovations from different cultures and this idea is not debated by serious historians. I have a hard time believing this because, as an expert in my field, i know the real nitty gritty stuff is always contended. There always seems to be 2 competing theories for everything. Are there any serious historians that back up the idea that geography played a very important role. Or is this idea laughed at and dismissed. He says for the most part, history is not debated and there is a general consensus on pretty much every topic.

I ask this because I know that in our culture (I’m American) we tend to reference certain zeitgeists of specific decades, e.g. the 90s, 80s, 70s, etc. prior to 1900, did people have such drastic difference in pop culture from decade to decade? Or was it somewhat stable and pop culture per decade had became an emergent outcome due to the industrial revolution? (conjecture I know, but it sounded interesting) Corollary, if not defined by decade, was it more in the century sense?

Hello,

I'm currently working on my dissertation and I'm struggling to find secondary sources on British newsreels in the Post-war period, and I was hoping that the sub could point me this direction of some.

Thank you