As the title says, I'm interested in if this was a sentiment felt by fans of Rock 'n' Roll in that period. If it was, what were the reasoning behind it? How did Buddy Holly's passing effect the landscape of American music? How did his death have an impact on the actual sound the music took?

It strikes me as odd that in the current age (up to 1998, of course) one state could use a different judicial system. This just came from a Wikipedia source - is it true? And if so why is that even allowed?

With so many merchant ships being sent with supplies to Europe I always see metal ships on history shows being sunk by U-boats, why didn’t we use ships made with wood to cross the Atlantic and therefore having more steel for the war effort.

Edit: I meant to ask if they helped the Allies when they invaded Sicily?

Why did Christianity basically disappear in North Africa (aside from Egypt ofc) after the Muslim conquest, while surviving elsewhere in the Mideast?

I’m looking for books on 1500s European warfare specifically Western European but other areas would be interesting as well. I’m currently reading about some of the politics of the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburgs and I am intrigued about the wars the book talks about so any recommendations would be appreciated.

I’ve been looking to read about David Ben-Gurion for some time. He strikes me as a fascinating figure. However, he would undoubtedly be a polarizing one. I want to read a biography on this man that is as little one-sided as possible - not rabidly claiming that he was a genius whose every action was correct and justified, not claiming him to be some senselessly malevolent, evil monster. For instance, the (expatriate) Israeli historian Ilan Pappé would likely act as if he is more the latter, being hailed as one of the foremost New Historians of Israeli history, intensely critical of its place in the Middle East. Many other historians may treat him as the former.

What is an excellent yet moderate biography of such a conflicting person?

I keep browsing this sub a lot only to click on threads that have over 50 deleted comments and no valid answer. I get the quality standards and appreciate them a lot, but it would still be nice to know if a question has been thoroughly answered or not.

Hello fellow humans! I have a question swirming around my head for years, which no one can and wants to answer me, that is: It is known, that Josef Mengele and other doctors at concentration camps did very gruesome and cruel human experiments. But I never heard about the outcome of them. Please don't misunderstand my question, I dont want to glorify the doings of those people, but did those experiments contribute to science? Did they discover something new and maybe even helpful for future scientific generations? (please don't roast me on this one) Or was this just torture and had no scientific benefit at all? I hope this one wasn't asked before. Thank you for your replies!

I recently read "The Alienist" which is the fictional story of a killer murdering underaged boys who dressed as girls at brothels around New York City. It takes place in 1896 and one of the things that shocked me is how many of these brothels there seemed to be and how their existence was accepted by the characters in the story. I know the author Caleb Carr was a historian himself so I'm wondering how close this is to reality.

Not sure if it's too specific, but I am especially interested in books which focus on the political processes which led to these topics, and of the interaction of people with the legal and political systems that arose from them. (e.g., what was it like for both a White and Black American to deal with the police in the Jim Crow era, what difficulties did everyday people face when living under surveillance in East Germany, etc. etc.)

Thank you!

Essentially the title. From experience with the French Revolution, different calendars and dating systems become agonizing. How was it possible for Western historians to convert ancient and even contemporary dates into something the Western audience could comparably understand?

I'm British so I don't know much about American history, but I am to believe that Hawaii wasn't made a state until 1959, and since the Pearl Harbor attack was during WWII, how did the USA have anything to do with it? Wouldn't that be the Hawaiian government's problem?

Edit: With the hygiene query this was prompted in part by remembering how Napoleon wrote to Joséphine telling her:

“Je reviens en trois jours; ne te laves pas!” (I will return in three days. Don’t wash!)

which is presumably referring to cunnilingus - so was guessing that, ahem, tastes had changed, and wondered what trends there have been in this area.