I am usually active at r/collapse, and a lot of people there are arguing that the nobles got their heads chopped off.

​

I answer back that on 1814 there was another Bourbon at the throne, and the revolutionaries were punished.

​

Based upon what I have read about that period, I read that the power of ancien regime in France was actually strongest during the reign of Charles X (1824-1830, probably the most reactionary king in France's history), weakened little bit during the reign of Louis Phillippe, and are still 'going, but not gone' now.

I also argued it with Dr. Tim Morgan, who is English and runs an energy blog. He said the ancien regime was a shadow of what it was before 1789, but my readings do not support it. Is Dr. Morgan right, or am I right?

​

What exactly did he do for the Cuban people and why does he have such infulence still to this day, what from a history prespestive did he do and not do. Ive been very intrigured by this subject lately and trying to research but it seems like most of the stuff i find is soley opinon based and not factual. I was curious to find an argument not based on opionon but based on facts for both sides.

Many people tell me he was a hero and many people tell me he hated gays and rock music, I have found sites that go against both of these.

Is there somewhere that has aggregated newspaper stories from the Medieval period?

I found this question asked awhile ago but the answers were removed. I find this a very interesting subject and would like to know more, thank you.

In the late 70's to the mid 80's, a number of authors wrote fictional accounts of what they thought World War III would look like (Sir John Hackett's "The Third World War", Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising", and Harold Coyle's "Team Yankee" are few examples of the type of writing I'm referring to). Did anyone write similar fiction about World War II prior to 1939? Or is the genre a unique product of a long, tense cold war?

I love reading Wikipedia articles on historical subjects, especially in 20th century politics. It's great to learn a little bit about a lot of things very quickly, but I always find myself looking for more info on certain things but I seem to have trouble finding good articles on say, the career of a politician or the history of a political party. Anyone have any advice for this?

My understanding is that the potato is a new world crop and didn’t appear in the old world until Columbus brought it back to Europe from where it spread. Prior to this, what was the Irish diet like? I ask specifically about the Irish as it is such a mainstay of their diet.

My history textbook mentions one of the causes for Shay's Rebellion as being a Massachusetts law passed in 1786 requiring all debts to be paid in cash. What methods of paying off debts did people use before this law, and why was it met with such outrage?

Stalin may have agreed to as much at the Tehran Conference but that did not prevent the Soviet Union from establishing puppet states in most of Eastern Europe.

Is this mostly a pop culture thing popularized by fiction, or have their been actual historians who've held this view?

To what extent was the German landscape affected by war destruction? I'm aware of the destruction of World War 2 in Germany, but I never really heard about that kind of stuff in the WW1 / Interbellum context.

I understand that during the age of manifest destiny in America, there were many authors, albeit somewhat unpopular, who advocated for a more "ethical" (insofar as colonization can be ethical) approach to westward settlement and the treatment of native Americans, or opposed it outright.

What is the earliest record of a European expressing displeasure with the colonization of the Americas for moral reasons? After 1492 when Christopher Columbus identified the nature of native Americans (which was, as he and the rest of Europe perceived it, weak and easy to subjugate), was there anyone who said anything along the lines of: "no, it would be wrong to displace millions and settle in their land"? To what extent were there any doctrines, institutions, or ideologies in Europe at the time that would have discouraged this for moral reasons? If not, how long did it take for someone to express such a notion?

Thanks!

I've been reading about the American Revolutionary War, and I think we often have a one-sided narrative where the British are the oppressors and the Americans wanted freedom from all those insensitive nobles. But I'm starting to learn that there was quite a bit of opposition in Britain to the massive costs to the war, which their common people didn't fully support. There's any mischaracterization there, feel free to correct me.

Thinking about this, I saw parallels to modern wars, where we (USA) are now the aggressor. Do the Vietnamese see us the way we saw the British--a monolithic empire trying to assert control? Or do they understand how controversial the war was, and how many of us did not agree with what our government was doing? I suppose you could ask this about the wars in the Middle East, but I don't want to make this question more complicated than it already is.

Take, for example, the following verse from William Williams' Guide me O Thou Great Jehovah (1745):

Open now the crystal fountain,

Whence the healing stream doth flow;

Let the fire and cloudy pillar

Lead me all my journey through.

Strong Deliverer, strong Deliverer,

Be Thou still my Strength and Shield;

Be Thou still my Strength and Shield.

(In the other verses, lines 2 and 4 rhyme 'normally'. Also, I can't help but feel Freud would have had a field day with this.)

Or these lines from a 1920s version of Cotton-Eyed Joe:

Dat gal, she sho' had all my love,

An' swore fum me she'd never move,

Is it only us who notice the awkward rhyming, or would it have been pretty contrived even at the time?

I'm doing German at A Level, and I have to make a speech for my grade, in sixth months time. I'm starting my work early, because I don't want to get caught knowing nothing a week before I have to do it :^)

I chose to look into "How did the First World War change Germany"

so, I need to know before and after die Versailler Freidensvertag

I'll do the translating later down the line, I just want to know everybody else's take on die Vaterland before and after the Great War

My main points will focus on Politically, Economically, Militarily, die Konigs.

I'm mainly looking for resources. Youtube videos, articles, etc.

Tidbits of information, that I can slide into my speech, such as how Germany had the largest standing army besides Russia before the war, and was only second to Britain in terms of expertise and equipment, but at the end of the war was reduced to mere rubble, and then I'd give the statistic for how many men the treaty stipulated were allowed, etc.

​

​