I know that several European armies had units of grenadiers. The question is did the US Army? Why didn't the US utilize grenades more frequently prior to WW1? I would think they would've been fairly useful if US forces had them in different battles.

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I’m watching mad men which takes place in the early sixties and one of the women in the show goes walking/running for exercise and all the other women thinks it’s very weird to go running for the sake of it and not to get away from something/ get somewhere fast. Yet most of the housewives in the show are extremely thin. I know it’s a TV show and not 100% historically accurate but you always hear about how much fatter the population is today compared to the past. I think it was socially acceptable for men to work out, at least in the military it was, but how did women in the past stay skinny if the never exercised?

While I'm interested in what the extent of our knowledge is, to be clear, I'm more interested in how we know, and especially how those sources and their limitations colour our understanding, and place barriers on what we can really know.

While I expect some writings of people who were enslaved survives, I'd also expect it to come from the very small minority who were not only manumitted, but also had the education and lifestyle to see them have writings survive. Which while interesting, can the recollections of a major domo given an honorable retirement really tell us much about the life of a slave worked to death in the salt mines?

In short, what do we know, but more importantly, how do we know it? Can the subaltern speak here?

She was declared a bastard after Anne's death for a time, but are there any documents claiming she isn't Henry's?

Also as a side note, is there any definitive proof that Anne actually committed adultery outside of the "investigation" that condemned her?

My grandfather just passed recently so I was trying to find out some info on his WW2 service in the merchant marines. So far I cant find any archives that have anything on him. I'm happy to do the work, just wondering if maybe y'all knew of any websites or archives I could try. Again, sorry if this is the wrong place for this question.

From a crude and distant perspective, the process of colonialism in New Zealand seems to have been less harmful to the Maori of New Zealand than it was to Indigenous Australians. Maori peoples have their own specific seats in New Zealand parliament, to my knowledge, and Maori cultural elements, like the Hakka, seem to be celebrated and major parts of wider New Zealand culture. What were the main reasons for this?

Hi Historians! Thanks for taking a read.

I'm trying to solve a bit of a family mystery. I have a relative that was killed on the USS Sicily in 1953. An obituary I have been able to find reports that he was killed in an accident aboard the ship on March 4 of that year. I have looked and looked through newspaper archives from all over the country at the time and cannot find any reports of an accident on that date.

Family history has it as a helicopter or airplane landing accident. One of my more interesting relatives claims he was decapitated in the accident.

There are some photos of a plane going into the water while attempting to land on the USS Sicily in 1953 but the captions or news articles always report no deaths and a different time of the year.

Any Navy historians that can shine a light on what might have happened or where I might look for an incident report? If having my relative's name will help, I'll happily provide in DM. Thanks so much!

His ideas of humans being a species of amnesia, etc.

I want to know how accurate is the depiction of gladiatorial combat in this movie.

Its 1775 and I'm a young man living in Boston. I want to buy a gun, for... reasons... Where do I buy from? What selection do I have? Where were the guns manufactured? How did the guns make their way to Boston? And how will my firearm stack up to the firearms of those stinking English?

Does this origin and particular time of being written down tell us something about our reception of the tradition? Is t likely there was a completely different side to the oral tradition we don’t receive?

For context, I was wondering about this while walking around the Sully wing of the Louvre today, admiring their collection of Greek sculpture and artifacts. Thanks!

Is it because the victors of WW2 were Christians too and wanted to defame Hinduism?

The Carthaginians were eventually completely destroyed so I guess we can forgive their silence. But as these wars involved many lands and affected many cities, do we have any historical accounts of these wars from anyone other than the Romans themselves?

For this question, I will use as an example the campaign of Alexander the Great in Asia. I'm perplexed by the way such a leader managed to lead an approximately 50.000 soldiers 11 years through Asia. He had to deal with annexing a huge amount of territory (and by that, don't tell me he marched through every settlement to impose his rule), scouting, logistics, battles and et-cetera. I would welcome explanations on the subject and also book recommendations for more details.

I always see clips of European movies from different wars of the past, such as Napoleonic wars, WW1, and WW2. There's also clips of WW2 and WW1 from Russian movies with the titles describing what battle took place in a scene. Can anyone tell me some of those good movies I see clips from, any good historical European or Russian movies such as those?