I am reading a novel written in the mid 1800's. There is a female character who believes that women are inferior to men. I know that women were fighting for rights at the time. In the U.S., the Seneca Falls Convention happened about the time the book was written. How common was it for women to oppose the fight for women's rights and buy into the sexist claims of male superiority?

Edit: I don't mean this post in a sexist way. Even in 2018, I've encountered a couple women who believed women should be in the home raising kids. I was wondering if because of lifetimes of oppression and propaganda, some women in the 1800's bought into those views of male superiority.

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In Mark Lewisohn’s Beatles history “Tune In”, he references a pub called “Ye Cracke” that he says was pronounced as “The Cracke” when Lennon frequented in the 1950s. But nowadays (in North America at least), the Y-as-thorn is mostly mispronounced as a Y-as-vowel, particularly when quoting articles like “ye” in Shakespeare, the King James Bible, or stock phrases like “Ye Olde...”. (This is only true of the definitive article version of "ye", not the pronoun; see u/Vucufigigudes comment below).

I’m not asking when the linguistic/orthographic change took place. I want to know when modern anglophones began misunderstanding the olde usage, and whether this is exclusive to North American speakers. Thank you.

I keep coming across this in my reading of Australian bushrangers and convicts.

After committing a serious crime or crimes in the colony, they would inevitably be hanged. After hanging, it seems a lot were dissected. Almost as if they were some weird science experiment.

What did authorities hope to achieve by dissecting these people? Was it some kind of weird psychology theory or science research into criminals? Did people assume criminals had different brains to non-criminals?

Would love to know more about this, how it originated and any information or knowledge gained from this practice.

Thanks in advance!

Let's say someone is a Historian specialized in Middle-Eastern contemporary history, would they have opportunities to travel to Middle-eastern countries as part of their research? How common is this?

If so, would this be when one is studying to become a historian (let's say during Phd studies) or after?

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Did life change suddenly or gradually? How long did it take for the native population to become Hispanicised/catholicised and did it occur forcibly or naturally? That sort of thing.

Is there a more modern, definitive book on the fall of Rome. Or, even better, on the entire history of the Roman Empire?

Do we know the exact spot in The DR? Can you visit it? Is there a monument?

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I've been thinking for a long time now about the fact that many African Americans are Christians, and yet that is the religion of the whites who bought them as slaves. The god whom they believed gave them divine right to enslave the "lesser races".

I understand that many slaves were forced into Christianty. Why then would they not turn their backs on it as soon as they were freed? Were there any attempts to revive African religions in the US, at any point in our history?

The Dark Ages are often talked about as if they spanned the entire Medieval era, but the High to Late Middle Ages seem to have had a thriving artistic, philosophical and literary culture. The only epoch in European history I can think of that seems to have lacked this entirely would be the period from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the coronation of Charlemagne. "Dark Ages" is a bit of a loaded term, but might it be applicable to this period? Or is even that either too simplistic or too restrictive?

I wonder, that since many medieval knights would wear padded gambesons and metal armor over it, were they vulnerable to overheating during hot summer days, especially when soldiers not used to the Mediterranean climate traveled far south during the crusades, and if so, what methods were used to avoid heatstroke when they had to wear full armor?

I have visited Cambodia on holiday before and I am aware of the crimes of the Khmer Rouge, but I was unaware of this link between Buddhism and Pol Pot. As I understood the Khmer Rouge banned all religion... particularly Buddhism. It seems that Harris is talking about Buddhism playing some kind of role in actually making the Khmer Rouge possible, could someone please elaborate on what he is alluding to? The quote is at 27:20 of the podcast.

The inspiration for this question was my wondering specifically whether Sigmund Freud snorted cocaine when he famously experimented with the drug.

But it brings up the broader question: When and why did people begin snorting cocaine rather than administering it orally, intravenously, etc.? And how did that become the most popular (in media portrayals at least) route of administration?

Even more broadly, what's the history of people putting intoxicating substances up their noses?

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When I think of people like the Maya, or the Aztec, or the Inca, I have to admit that my only lightly-informed view of them doesn't really have anything in it about how non-hetero people lived and were treated. I presume they existed among those populations, but what were their lives like? Do we know?

Ancient civilizations usually resided around rivers.

Egypt on the Nile,

Babylon/Assyria on the Tigris and Euphrates,

China on the Yellow & Yangtze,

Indus River Valley civilization on the Indus & Ganges,

Norte Chico on the Fortaleza, Pativilca, and the Supe, etc.

So why did civilization such as Greece or Persia, both of whom lacked major rivers comparable to the other ancient civilizations, still rival the ancient civilization around the river valleys, who logically seem superior?

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It's clear that the pop cultural image of a ninja is at best, an exaggeration and at worse, completely false. But I've read about them using different sources and I still don't have a clear picture of what they really were and different sources give me different answers. Were they simply samurai using guerrilla tactics? Were they an order with secret mountain villages for training? Were they just people hired to spy and assassinate? Were they peasants secretly resisting the hierarchal society of Japan? Or were they something else entirely?