Let's say I'm a person in a mid-size city and I'm going to visit a friend on the other side of town. Would it be typical to carry my gun with me? If I did, would that alarm people? What if I was traveling further (like between two cities). Assume that I'm not affiliated with a militia or military.

To be clear, I'm more interested here in social conventions/what was common than in whether it would have been legal (though I'm sure those things are somewhat related).

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I’ve always heard that after the Boston Tea Party tea was boycotted and Americans stopped drinking a lot of hot tea. So when did the South get addicted to sweet tea? Was it due to the immigration of Irish settlers during the 1800s or were the stories of tea boycotts just a myth told in elementary school classrooms?

I have started this, but never gotten that far, how good is his scholarship on the subject? Is he considered to be fair about this very contentious topic?

Is there any evidence of what antiquity thought of gravity before Newton? Did they have a word for it?

How did the first people to find fossils determine there age? Was there a method with similar results to carbon dating? Or was that type of testing developed after the bones were found? Also what was the general consensus of ginormous bones when they were found?

I recently found out that there is a BCE/CE way of dating history instead of BC/AD.

Which one is the correct one to use nowadays? Has most of the world now switched to BCE/CE or are many still using BC/AD? And which one should be used? Would most people nowadays understand it or not?

Thank you.

While these sciences are not history research themselves, all three use eachothers tools and knowledge interconnectedly. Hell, my favourite stuff to learn about is microhistory, which is a pretty solid mix of these.

However, I have had multiple seminars and classes about the topic, and could never figure out the difference that makes anthropology and ethnography separate sciences.

At the end of every article of literatue on the topic, the only difference I can see is that Ehtnography is the kind of Anthropology that needs no passport to research.

Subsequently, did Washington send his second in command as a slight to Cornwallis?

Other than religion, the Ottomans ruled over almost the same area, had a similar system of governance/army...

I know that the Soviets built a wall around West Berlin to prevent people from east Berlin to escape. But, instead of trying to escape to west Berlin through the Berlin Wall which was very heavily guarded people could have tried to escape to mainland West Germany.

It would have been much easier since the border was longer and unlikely to be as heavily guarded plus they could just escape to some other country (like Denmark via sea or Chechia) and then make their way into west Germany.

Even if they want to SPECIFICALLY go to west Berlin I suppose west Germany was connected to west Berlin for the most part of the cold war.

Edit: spelling correction.

I’m watching Band of Brothers right now and I just started thinking about how the German soldiers felt as well. I’d think that the SS soldiers would agree with Hitlers’ message and protocol, but what about the regular German soldiers fighting in the fields?

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I realise that this is may be too controversial a topic for this sub simply due to the sheer amount of political propaganda surrounding it, but that's made me all the more curious as to its true nature. The common line from the People's Republic of China is that Tibet was a brutal "feudalist theocracy" before it was "liberated" while the Tibetan Government in Exile claims it was under harmonious "religious-secular rule" before it was conquered. My guess is that the truth lies somewhere in between, but I don't know for sure.

I loved the quality and details, I wish he had done some on those topics, but hopefully someone did.

I have looked in the archive of this sub, maybe I have missed it.

Thank you

"it is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning." Martin Luther king Jr

Now there are warnings everywhere about not drinking while pregnant but what did women do before that?

While I believe it is well-established that the Mayans (and other Central American civilizations) practiced human sacrifice and other ceremonies at their pyramids, it always seemed to me that the "stairways to heaven" featured on the sides facing the plazas must be symbolic. Each of the steps are simply too high and steep for any human, certainly anyone in ceremonial garb, to use with dignity and safety. One of the few places you are allowed to climb them today, the Nohoch Mul Pyramid at Coba, can be mounted by most people only with the aid of a rope. The platforms at its side, which the guide said were used for day-to-day visits by worshippers, have normal, modern scales steps, so the Mayans certainly knew what a practical step height was. Moreover, the side of Nohoch Mul features what look suspiciously like the remains of a zigzag ramp which priests could use to reach the summit without risking a broken neck.

Do Spanish or any other sources attest that the stairs were explicitly used?