I'm searching books related to the Eighty years war, I wanted to know more about it from the Dutch perspective (I'm Spanish so I already know the Spanish discourse) , I thought about maybe a biography of William the silent or something more focused on the diplomatic perspective and events, I also searched for an English book about Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt but I couldn't find anything. Ty.

Hey guys. I'm looking for scholarly references (articles, chapters, etc.) to help me answer the following.

Question: When investigating history outside the Abrahamic faith traditions, is it proper or improper for a historian to rule out as a matter of fact the miraculous and/or supernatural?

Background:

Biblical scholar James Crossley has this to say about scholarly investigation of Christian origins (Reading the New Testament: Contemporary Approaches, “The Resurrection and the Supernatural,” ch.5.):

It is certainly true, as scholars sometimes point out, that discussions over whether the resurrection really happened or not polarise different scholarly biases like nothing else. However, in the interests of scholarly peace and harmony, we could perhaps do the seemingly impossible and bring a variety of views together. Whether we believe something supernatural or not generated the different accounts, most of us could at least agree that something happened historically and something generated the different accounts. If we can more or less all agree that *something* happened and that the first followers believed they saw the risen Christ, then can we not move on and develop a broader explanation of Christian origins without worrying about whether or not this constitutes proof for atheists or conservative Christians, respectively, thereby channelling more intellectual energy into historical explanations of Christian origins?

In general, when it comes to miracle stories in the bible, it seems that a desire for collegiality among people of different religious faiths prevents biblical historians from going beyond methodological naturalism and saying, for instance, that the sun didn't stand still in the sky for Joshua because that's clearly impossible. To do that would be to throw a gauntlet down to any fellow scholar/historian who holds to a particular kind of religious faith. And I imagine the same is largely true for other Abrahamic faiths such as Islam or Mormonism.

But what about historians outside of the Abrahamic traditions? For example, when we read about how the sun-goddess and storm God help Mursili II in battle, do historians need to shy away from saying that of course such a thing didn't happen? When Vespasian is said to heal a blind man and a lame man, do historians generally stop short of saying that the story can't be true because humans don't have magic healing powers? Etc.

I would very much like to read more (or anything!) on this subject, so please let me know any references you guys have to get me started.

Thanks in advance!

Im asking if it was kind of like a haymaker in boxing. A potentially knock out blow but opens you up for a lot of damage so it only comes when the opponent is in a vulnerable position already so you set them up with jabs and feints. Similarly I think of the way two boxers could just trade haymakers but the bout would end quickly it seems that a unit that actually stood and traded volley after volley would quickly be devastated beyond the point of being effective in combat.

So I picture armies engaging at a distance much farther than what is typically shown in media and slowly finding openings to get infantry up close to deliver more decisive blows like the volley. Is this correct or am I very misinformed?

I am aware that the Mycenaean civilization ended along with the Bronze Age and that what followed were the Greek Dark Ages.

Did the Mycenaeans "evolve"? into Greeks or were they replaced by another culture?

And would I be assured a victory in such a fight over a weaker opponent, or would he be allowed a champion to fight for him?

And how would my peers feel about my blatant grab for more wealth? And my local chieftain?

Reading the Old Testament, it seems like they were a significant percentage of the overall Hebrew population. But according to Google, there are only ~1,000 Samaritans left in the world and the majority of them live in one small village near Mt. Gerizim. So what happened?

Hey I was wondering if there's a nice broad strokes book on native American tribes history. Like which ones were where, what their fate was, a bit of stuff about their culture etc. I'm particularly interested in the interactions between different native American societies. Also as a slight aside I heard on a podcast ages ago that there were native Americans cities and trade networks possibly stretching from coast to coast... If anyone has any recommendations for book on this as well I would be interested.

Thanks!

I've seen people say this multiple times, but also that this is an anti-Catholic myth. What is the consensus of historians?

Were they all exiled off to concentration camps? If not, were asylums allowed to continue their normal operations? Any first hand accounts would be amazing as well.

Research for a fictional story I am writing. Are there any documented cases of a person surviving a coma for an extended period of time (over a month) specifically in the early 1900’s or 1910’s? I believe feeding tubes were invented before then, but I don’t know if and/or how they were implemented to keep a person alive for more than a few days. Can’t seem to find an answer to this question, can someone point me on a right direction? Thanks!

Free black men and black slaves existed simultaneously in the US, for example, so I'm wondering if there are any examples of black slave owners in the new world.

Are there official documents of his birth, miracles, death and resurrection?

The etymology seems the same and according to sources online, the Arabic transliteration of 'Hazarmaveth' is actually 'Hadramawt'.

What is the academic interpretation of this similarity?

Did what is now Yemen have much importance during the time of the Old Testament? It appears as if Ancient South Arabia had a strong influence on the Levant and vice versa, is this correct?

(TL:DR) I need any (and as many as I can find) military logos from the U.S. Vietnam war period. (Army/navy/air force/etc.)

I have a friend making a gift for his father. His dad was in the army, serving during the war in Vietnam and still has his combat helmet.

Said friend wants to airbrush every military branch logo onto the helmet.

Rather than just permanently painting his father's war helmet with logos from 2022, I want to preserve the way they looked during this period when he served.

I would be cutting vinyl stickers/stencils for him to airbrush paint the logos onto the helmet and peel off after.

I know very little about any military branch or it's history.

After much googling I am coming up with LOTS of variations of military logos over idk how many years and legitimacy.

So I'm asking for your help, and hoping it's interesting to you as well.

I need any (and as many as I can find) military logos from the U.S. Vietnam war period. (Army/navy/air force/etc.)

I appreciate any interest and help!

Will post finished product photos when complete!

Near his death hitler displayed symptoms of Parkinson’s, today it is well documented that long term heavy abuse of methamphetamines can cause dyskinesia and tremors. So how much of a role did hitlers drug habit play in him developing Parkinson’s?

I am very curious, because i have seen statistics that 75% of French Jews were alive at the end of the Holocaust, and I am wondering if this includes Algerian Jews or not, as they were pretty much spared extermination and were French citizens since around 1870. Since 1848, Algeria was an integral part of France, theoretically no different than Corsica or Normandy. However native Algerians (except Jews, a very select number of Muslims, and a few converts to Christianity) didn’t have citizenship, and when they got it in 1947, they were still second class. I am very curious about how old statistics in France are affected by this.

For example, what did people think of them in the middle ages? Ancient Greeks? Romans? Egyptians? Chinese? Native Americans?

We have quite a bit of research to understand them scientifically in our time, but what lense have past cultures around the world looked at them through?

I guess this question could be made for any pre-modern or pre-industrial society on Earth, but I choose to focus on late middle Ages Europe because it seems to have been particularly miserable, plus there is an abundance of historical sources that is not necessarily replicated in other pre-modern societies.

Food supply was not nearly as secure as it is today and massive scale famines were a semi regular occurrence, with the Great Famine of 1315 being one of the most prominent. Medicine was in its infant stages and even a simple fall, cut or viral infection could result in early death in the healthiest individual; the general population got regularly decimated by supranational-scale epidemics (the Black Death being the most obvious one) that could wipe out entire villages and cities, and surviving to adult age was essentially a matter of money, genetics and sheer luck. Violence and conflicts were commonplace, with many towns being either fortified or built on higher grounds to prepare for outside attacks. Life was restricted to very limited circles in space and time, as transportation was slow, roads were rocky and underdeveloped, there was no electricity and the land between two towns largely consisted of dark forests with an unknown amount of danger.

This, for us watching from our cosy 2022 life, is extremely scary. But did the people from that period view their world the same as we view it? Did they see it as scary? Were they afraid on a regular basis? Was fear a key component of their lives? Or were they mostly just "meh" about it because it was the only world they knew about and could imagine?

ps. it has nothing to do with "dance", no idea why it got flaired as such.

I read somewhere that he could be to blame for the poor economic state of Africa even into today’s times and that he gave away something in the ballpark of 70,000 pounds of gold on his pilgrimage, do we know how this was calculated or is it just a tough estimate based on hearsay and stories?