How were they received by wider Washington society? Were they blamed for the war? Were they still respected? Were they ostracized? Did they repent for their role in the Civil War, or refuse to recognize their place in history?

I'm a aspiring historian who is doing graduate work on race relations. One of the sources that I'm using includes many claims that, while are they cited and backed up by sources, don't quite hold water in my mind. I feel that some of his sources are flimsy at best, and downright out of context at worst.

As a white guy though it's a little awkward for me to criticize such sources because I feel like I'm "whitesplaining," but I also feel that it's my duty as a historian to challenge questionable assertions.

I'm assuming that the Prometheus story with the eagle is a way of explaining liver regeneration (please correct me if I'm wrong). But how did they know that the liver would grow back? I know they did surgeries in the ancient world but would they cut people back open and see if things grew back? Or is it not related at all? If it wasn't related then that's quite the coincidence.

I'm currently reading through Barbara Tuckman's, The Guns of August, and currently am not finished. But I keep getting relatively confused on the topic and importance of railways.

Theorhetically I can understand the reasons why railroads are essential but occassionally Tuckman mentions the different "kinds" if railroads employed by each major country.

She emphasizes how Germany had a consistent form of railway, and Russian railways were various "gauges" or "forms" I can't remember the exact warning.

And currently discussing the BEF landing in France Tuckman mentions how the British plan of action could not be changed because the various differrences in French vs British trajn capacity would have cause so many permutations that it wouldve been impossible to change.

So essentially I wanted at least resources so I could learn more specifics about these railways and what was physically different between them.

And also hopefully someone could explain what Tuckman was trying to describe in the differences between German uniformity in railway and Russian "variety" and what exactly that variety means on the rails.

Thanks!!!

I'm doing an term paper about the usage of Camels in 19th/early 20th century in Australia.

Initially I had thought about focusing not on the camels themselves but rather on the Afghan cameleers and their influence and reception in Australia. After talking to my lecturer and some other students I however came to the conclusion that this would be a much too large topic for a 12-15 page paper, even if I would focus myself on a period of say 1840 to 1870. Whilst talking and discussing the paper, it was suggested to me to use Daniel Headricks "Tools of Empire", in which he analyses european colonization and imperialism through the lens of technological advancements (at least from what I was told and from what I've read so far - only got the book a few days ago) and their impact on motive and means of imperialism. The idea was to see if Camels (standing in for animals in general) could also be seen as "Tools of Empire" that have allowed european expansion in Australia. Another question to be answered would be if they could be seens as some sort of "meta"-tools, seeing as they were used not only by themselves (e.g. in their use for expeditions) but also to build Headricks "Tools of Empire", e.g. the Ghan Railway or the Rabbit-Proof Fence in Western Australia.

In general this would be an attempt to use Headricks method but adopt it for Enevironmental History, not Technological History.

So far however, most of my literature is about the cameleers and I have struggled to find much about the use of Camels in other imperial endeavours, be they expeditions or technological constructions. Most of what I've read so far was Wikipedia, seeing how our university library has basically nada on this topic, so all I have are some vague anecdotes and mentions of the use of Camels but nothing concrete.

So I'd be glad if anyone could help me in determening if this is a viable approach by telling me if Camels were indeed used in such imperial endeavours and maybe pointing me towards some literature about those. I could of course also add a list of literature that I have already ordered from other libraries if necessary.

PS: I'm not a native english speaker, so I'd like to apologize for any mistakes made. I hope I was able to properly explain my question.

We know the Ptolemaic dynasty practiced inbreeding to avoid problems of succession and keep power within the family. We have seen cases like this in other royal dinasties such as the Habsburgs in Spain, culminating in the infamous Charles II. However, Charles was the product of repeated marriages between cousins and uncles and nieces; Cleopatra's ancestors married their siblings numerous times, and there's not any case of malformations that's as famous as Charles, despite the odds that they could have been even worse. Cleopatra's famous beauty, wit and intelect seem to have escaped those odds, or so history says. Or is there any account of the probable genetic defects the Ptolemaic dynasty would have suffered?

All I know is that he served in the navy on U.S.S prince william in 1943 I do have his service number not sure if I should post it but I would like to know if there is any way to get more information on his time during ww2 any help would be appreciated

So recently I learned that Great Britain has controlled Ireland for nearly a thousand years. One would have thought, that if it weren't for the Irish independence in 1922 maybe they would have been proper integrated into Great Britain by today. One would think that the strong Irish identification in Ireland would have been even stronger in former times. How come Irish nationalism to have never prevailed over the British before the independence in 1922? This brings me to the following question, regarding separatism in the medieval period and viking era:

What indenpendence movements tried, but failed to do so, to overcome the british rule during these periods?

Thank you, a Dane

This week, tell us about the culture surrounding death in your era! What were people's fears? What was a "good death"? What were funerals like? What can we know about a civilization that left us no or few written words, but lots of funerary art and tombs?

Can someone please tell me about historical cavalry vs cavalry going head to head on the battlefield? Im curious as to how these engagements commonly go, was it at all effective to fight cavalry with cavalry and are there many examples of this?

The only example I could find was between Custer and Stuart at the battle of Gettysburg, which just turned into a massive free for all.

Thanks in advance!

I already am almost an historian, knowing quite a lot. But on the internet, I can watch videos, but I can not read history a lot, only can I read complicated history in the books I buy from Thucydides, and online on Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica is hilariously generalizing, where online can I read about ww2?