My title question is rubbish, but I'm sorry, I can't think of better phrasing. This is not a historical hypothetical.

One of the things I was taught at school was that when the men went off to war during WWII, the women took their jobs in factories, etc. This, I was told, led to a situation post WWII where women remained in workplace and were viewed as an asset.

My question is based around this. Historically, women would had to do that same "men's work" when the men were off at war. History is replete with wars. Why did the outcome of women remaining in the workplace never materialise until WWII? In other words, what pushed women back into the homemaker role once the men returned from war?

Could any person with coin buy a boat or ship in the Mediterranean in the Roman and Greek era? Today for example we have licenses to drive and pay taxes on vehicles, was there anything similar for boats and ships?

I know the Roman navy had anti-piracy operations and got naval domnance, but did they like arrest unknown boats at sea and ask for license and registration? Could anyone really buy or make a boat and sail off wherever they want? I know for a while every city had a different citizenship which could make you an immigrant going from Naples to Rome or Sparta to Athens.

I heard a teacher say this but I can no longer ask him. I strongly believe that this means their atrocities were foreseeable once they came to power.

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Isn't this just an I-knew-it-all-along effect where we only think we could know what would happen next but in truth we never could tell?

Hi reddit,
I am studying a unit at university regarding myth in ancient Greece, and came upon this quote in one of my lecture slides.
"Traditional stories which are neither true nor probable" (regarding myth)

"[Cicero] Rhetorica ad Herennium 1.13"

I was trying to find the actual part of Rhetorica ad Herennium in which this is said, however I was having trouble.

When referencing ancient historical texts, what does the "1.13" mean in the above reference? It's something I've seen a fair bit in reference to ancient historians and ancient sources.

I am studying remotely so asking questions like this to my lecture are quite difficult.

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Thanks for your help.

I know there have been some folk 'remedies' for unwanted pregnancy throughout history (both prevention and termination), but I'm wondering how well these things worked, what they were, and how they were communicated about. Was it something only certain people knew about? Or more like an open secret? (If even a secret?) How would someone have sought out information on things like this in different societies? (And economic classes?) How was abortion treated socially, by who? (And who administered the actual abortions?) What was accessibility to these things like (were they expensive, etc)?

I'm curious about this in terms of more modern times in the English-speaking world, mainly the Georgian era to the Edwardian era.

Wouldn't there have also be diseases that the natives had that would infect the European conquistadors & settlers? Or did the Europeans already have advanced enough hygienic and medical practices to avoid being significantly affected by previously unencountered diseases?

I've been working with Indians (south Asian Indians, not native americans) for years and know a bit about Mysore, Martha Empire, etc. Just asking (this is probably not the right place) if there is a good resource or someone who could comment on what the education system in India focuses on for colonial-present thematics. Any resources would be appreciated, only because I'm really into history but most of the people I work with from India (everyone) seem to have just a brief understanding of 1700-1800 India.

This question is coming from a white guy, so if it's offensive my bad. My goal is to just understand the history that's taught, research it and then strike a conversation as I have to work with Indians who are here on 3 month cycles.

Thanks in advance!

I know Braveheart is not, by any means a historically accurate film, however I was wondering whether or not he really said this.

I'm writing an essay on a short story on Edgar Allan Poe. I need a source on what city life was like in Early 1800s American, around when Poe was alive. My attempts to find an easily accessible article through my College's online resources seems to be confounding me. Any advice?

And by that I mean the mansas who are NOT mansa Musa or mansa Sundiata. Because every time I try to find info about Mali, it’s always those two.

Even D. T. Niane’s “General History of Africa” doesn’t dedicate more than one sentence to any mansa besides those two. Is there no oral history about them? Some kind of Arabic chronicle or something?

I know Europeans visited Mongke, Guyuk, Kublai, and Batu (as well as other Mongol rulers). But I have never really heard of any missions to visit the Timurids.

Obviously they would have known about the Danes but were they aware of the existence of the Norse before they started exploring and raiding elsewhere?

I was reading Sunburst by Mark Peattie, and it briefly mentions how catapult mounted reconnaissance floatplanes on IJN vessels were vulnerable because of their location.

How severe of an issue was this for the fleets ability to deploy reconnaissance flights? Were floatplanes frequently damaged by enemy fire, or by weather, while mounted in this manner?

As an aside, I recall something about one of the Tone-class Cruisers suffering from a floatplane launch malfunction during a critical juncture leading up to the battle of Midway, was this the kind of vulnerability the authors are referencing?

Additionally, the book also briefly mentions how ships became vulnerable when they were forced to slow, almost to a halt, in order to recover their floatplanes when they returned. Was this more of an inconvenience for maintaining formations, or were ships actually lost while doing this?

Finally, did any ships other then dedicated seaplane carriers have a bellow deck, or covered storage space for their floatplanes? I realize this wouldn't be possible for a cruiser, but perhaps on a battleship?

Sorry if that is a lot of small questions to unpack!

I have to write a research paper for my history class. I was hoping someone here could point me to some good sources for it. I want to focus on how medieval bandits. I am especially interested in how they would practice their trade. I understand the topic has little written about it, and I am looking for help finding sources.

Could you please point me to some good sources on this matter?

I need to narrow my topic due to it's breadth, and sources on bandits in specific times and regions would be very helpful.