Granted that way more people died in WW2 and the amount of genocide conducted by Nazi Germany was much worse but millions of people both military & civilian died in the Napoleonic wars and yet it doesn't seem like he is viewed as a bad guy today, why?

After reading histories of various revolutions throughout the years, I have noticed a trend that someone (usually a wealthy person/company or a nation) would usually give them funding. The US colonial revolutionaries were backed by France and the Dutch Republic, who gave them a navy and money.

The Nazi Party and Italian Fascist League were funded by various corporations around the world. The CIA has funded and supported revolutionaries to install governments favorable to US policy around the world, as has the Kremlin and China's MSS.

A revolution as successful as the communist revolution in Russia had to have back from someone. It started while the Russian Empire has in a weakened state, and the communists in Russia had already tried in 1905. Multiple attempts and Lenin's ability to live in exile don't just happen without money.

So who were their sources and who supplied funds?

I always see stories of Nazis living in South American countries after the war, even Oskar Schindler lived there after the war if I’m correct. Why is this?

Was Othello in blackface, or was it just understood that he was a black character?

What was the legal reaction? What was the social reaction? Were there any distraction concerns with having radios in cars?

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Hello historians,went to Ireland two weeks ago for the second time. When I got back, i realized I don’t know anything about Ireland’s history. Are there any good books that I should read?

Paul Doumer, the only residing French president to have died from a gun wound in an assassination. I'd like to know political context in which he rose to the presidency as a "radical", and if that was the reason he was shot.

So, this is a bit of a broad question, and if any experts in the field want to narrow it down to their topic of expertise, I'd be jazzed.

I live in Toronto, and have spent a good amount of time in Vancouver as well. However, despite all this, I know very, very little about the First People who lived here before me. There are some records dating to post-colonial times, but what I'm more curious about is before European contact. Do we have history of the North Americans, especially up North in Canada? I know we have some Mayan / Aztec / Central American civilizations, but what about up here?

They must have had their great civilizations and great people. Their version of Alexander the Great. Do we have any records? Any knowledge on this? What do we know? How did different civilizations across this massive land live (depends on where, I know, but I guess I'm curious for hearing about the different experiences)? And, if not, why do we know so little?

Again, I know this is an immensely broad topic and I'm terrible at narrowing. If your area of expertise is the Lakota around the Mississippi in 9th century AD, I'd love to hear about it. Mostly, I just want to hear what pre-colonial civilizations were like for First People in NA, specifically in what we now know as Canada. :)

Thanks!

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Specifically, hatches for people. I know they were battened down during storms. Does this mean people could not get out during a storm?

Could they be opened from either side the rest of the time?

A few points that could make them seem more Roman:

• The Ottoman “Turks” didn’t even call themselves Turks (ethnically) until the 19th century, they actually used to call themselves “Rumii” (Roman in Ottoman Turkish, derived from Arabic).

• Roman culture was not considered foreign or even looked down upon, since Ottomans themselves were ethnically called Romans.

• Fatih Sultan Mehmed the conqueror embraced Roman culture, and was himself half Italian and half a bunch of other things.

Edit: fucked up the title, I meant continuation, not constitution. I’m on my phone, so I’m sorry about any spelling mistakes.

My knowledge of WW2 falls somewhere between "way more than the average American" and "woefully lacking compared to the AskHistorians crowd." Can someone explain the cause/reasons behind the Japanese-German alliance? They never really coordinated as far as I can tell. My two potential reasons would be to split the Russians and Americans into a two-front war. But did Germany anticipate US entrance at the time of the alliance? And did Japan really divert much of Russia's resources?

I read that is accepted by all historians that men entered America from Asia through Alaska. However, all the ancient stuff is found from Mexico to its South. Why this happened? I know that the weather of Canada and the US is harsher, but not worse than the weather of China or Europe. If China and Europe developed complex civilizations, why wasn't the same in North America (except of Mexico)? What today are the US and Canada seem perfect to create big, Chinese/European-like civilizations. Why didn't it happen?

I was listening to The Memory Palace and an episode on the Donner party seemed to suggest that they didn't actually resort to cannibalism, but I've heard my whole life that they had. Google didn't seem to yeild any results that were from sources I feel I can trust and had nothing but sensationalized titles, but I may be going about the search the wrong way.

In middle and high schools, everyone had some books they had to read for school. In present day these are things like 1984, Catcher in the Rye, and Tom Sawyer. Some of these, like Tom Sawyer, I am sure have been fairly consistent books for students to read. Others like Catcher in the Rye would certainly have not been read in schools upon release. As such I am wondering if there is some kind of list of popular books to teach in middle and high schools for each decade throughout the last century or to see how the list has changed and try to ascertain why.