I am trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. I have a deep love for history, but most of my talent probably lies in the STEM fields. (Engineering, Math, Computer Science). I was wondering if there are job fields, or niche jobs that combine both.
Thanks for any assistance or ideas!
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It’s known that Malcolm X often influenced the way photographers working with him took photos. And from numerous photos of Malcolm X he almost always had his Nikon, King Regula 111c, or Bell and Howell 70dr. He stated he carried them to collect “evidence” or visual proof of the productivity of the Black Muslims... But what happened to all of those photos and film?
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Question Context I realise this is a bit of an obscure topic in terms of the primary sources I'm searching for and I have a few already to support my paper. However, I'm slowly scraping the bottom of the proverbial barrel and have hit a wall.
I am writing a research paper on the peasantry and their feelings towards Ivan IV (also known as Ivan Grozny, Ivan Vasilyevich, Ivan The Imposing, or Ivan The Terrible). Wikipedia claims that Ivan IV is actually well-liked by modern day Russians and his own peasantry with the evidence being the amount of heroic folklore. Folklore from Wikipedia isn't a great source for a paper, but it's not just Wikipedia that claims he was besmirched by Western sources. This wouldn't normally be a problem except that I can't find English versions of documents, correspondences, manuscripts, or autobiographies from someone who was actually alive between 1530 and 1584.
I'm a university student that is not able to pay for certain sources, and I cannot read Russian whatsoever. So, if you do have any information that helps to answer my question it has to be in English. If you're able to provide a primary source, I would love it to have been translated into English by an academic and have an online version I can read for free. These formalities exist because this paper will likely be reviewed in an academic setting and I can really only read German well enough to cite translations with confidence.
For a bit of a list of what I've already cataloged for mentions of the peasantry under Ivan IV:
Foreign accounts of Muscovy: 1530-1590.
Letters between Ivan IV and Prince Andrei Kurbskii (excerpts)
The Domostroi (excerpts)
Letters between Ivan IV and Queen Elizabeth I
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I was reading a tawdy romance set in Victorian East coast USA, and there was a "quick" engagement of a week - later they suggested a monthlong engagement as "long engagement".
Obviously I don't take this romance as a legit source. And it got me thinking.
Can anyone tell me about "average" engagements in Edwardian or Victorian eras? I'd love information or suggestions for sources for the USA, or Australia or England, Ireland, France, anywhere! Just a curiosity I suppose.
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For the sake of clarification, because titles can only be so long: In one of the fights in is show, both sides charged into each other, forming walls of shields pushing and shoving against each other. In Knightfall, there was great emphasis placed on this, as it allowed the two opposing commanders to trash talk each other for 20-30 seconds. After a short while, one commander from side A ordered his formation to "break" in one spot, the relieved pressure making several soldiers from side B stumble forward into the gap and stagger behind side A's infantry line, allowing them to be killed, before the gap was closed and the shoving match resumed. For better clarification of what I mean, it's the battle in the forest in the final episode of season 1 (sadly I couldn't find a video clip, but it's on Netflix).
Is this a tactic that was actually used in warfare? I believe I've heard from posters on here that a similar sort of shoving match is hypothesized to have been used in hoplite phalanx warfare, but is it plausible that such a tactic persisted into the medieval era?
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I know a whole bunch about Rome just through osmosis and popular culture but I wonder if that's because Rome was really that significant or if they had a really good version of a PR team back in the day.
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And not one of the many other Princes?
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I'm writing an essay over European views of Russia and was curious if anyone could help me find sources for the topic.
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what seperates them to make two different ideologies, is it just purely because of the different countries or what?
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Hey all! This podcast I listen to recently did an episode purporting to debunk myths about Stalin's legacy. While I'm sympathetic to the idea that Cold War propaganda has led to falsehoods becoming latent in Westerners' popular conception of history, and the show certainly seems thoroughly researched, I'm critical of some of the cited sources at face. For example, I've heard that Grover Furr's Kruschev Lied takes several logical leaps in order to bolster its glowing portrayal of Stalin. I'm planning to do some independent research, but I would be honored if any scholars of the Soviet Union or Ukraine would be interested in taking the time to listen to this and identify any historical inaccuracies or half-truths that jump out at you, or point me to any quality, relatively unbiased literature on these topics.
The segment on the Ukrainian famine is from 30:42 to 1:38:55, and the segment on the purges is from 1:38:55 to around 2:20:00.
NOTE: I'm aware that these are are hotly contested, ideologically fraught topics, but I'm not interested in having those kinds of ideological debates with strangers on Reddit. You're probably not going to convince me that capitalism is awesome by typing, but you might be able to change my views on this topic somewhat by making me aware of facts which I hadn't considered.
EDIT: Here is a link to said podcast; https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/joseph-mother-fucking-stain
Some of the specific claims in the episode which ran counter to my understanding of the history;
- The death toll of the Ukrainian famine was far below the often-cited 7.5mil, and death toll figures were intentionally inflated by anti-Communists in order to propagandize their political perspective.
- Portrayals of the Ukrainian famine as a genocide were largely propagated by William Randolph Hearst, who had ties with far-right political actors, and almost all publications making this connection can be traced back to his newspapers' reportage on the event; many photos published in Hearst's newspapers as documentation of the famine were actually from the Volga famine, or from World War I.
- Right wing Ukrainian nationalists actively attempted to sabotage Ukrainian harvests in order to make collectivization look like a failure.
- Zinoviev, Trotsky and his son Zedov actively participated in schemes to assassinate Stalin.
- Zinoviev's trial was lengthy and fair, and was confirmed as such by foreign observers.
- Excesses in the Purges were committed largely by local party officials, not infrequently by Trotsky sympathizers within the party to guide it in an increasingly violent and authoritarian direction, thereby alienating ordinary people from the party and pushing them towards resistance.
- Stalin and the Central Committee actively attempted to curb these excesses, and issued a statement a couple months into the process decrying them.
- Stalin was not anti-semitic because in the USSR anti-semitism was a crime, and there is no documentation of him saying or doing anti-semitic things.
Additionally, these are some of the books cited. I would be interested, if anyone's read them, what they thought about their accounts or analysis.
"Another View of Stalin" by Ludo Martins
"Fraud, Famine and Fascism" by Douglas Tottle
"Khrushchev Lied" by Grover Furr
"Class Struggles in the Soviet Union" by Charles Bettelheim
"Stalin" by Ian Grey
"Stalin" by Isaac Deutscher
"Origins of the Great Purges" by J. Arch Getty,
"Blackshirts and Reds" by Michael Parenti
Thanks everyone!
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I'm doing a school project and I can't really find much on google, so I was thinking real people would have a better shot at answering. Thanks :)
Edit: And Idaho please. Didn't realize oof
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I have always been taught that Native American populations originated from an overland crossing at the Bering Strait, but I've seen some Native American scholars on twitter recently claiming that the theory has been disproven. See, for example, Dr. Adrienne Keene: https://twitter.com/NativeApprops/status/1052993772685012993
Is the popularity of the Bering Strait theory losing steam? What evidence calls the theory into question?
Or was it always psuedoscientific and I had no idea?
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Edit : Thanks for the time spent writing such insightful comments :)
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I was wondering how my ancestors would join the army in the 18-19th's (mainly eastern European countries, like Belarus (who was probably part of the Russian empire at that time) or Poland. If anyone could answer me, I would be very glad.
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I was wondering if the children of plantation slave owners ever played with, had friendships, or even had relationships with slaves children. Is there any account of this? If so is there somewhere I could read more about this? On one hand I feel like it could have happened frequently, on the other hand I feel like the parents/slave owners could have forbade it as well.
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