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I want to start a youtube series where I talk about the history of the US Supreme Court and some of the incidental details about my favorite branch of government, my first episode is gonna be on the Robes.

Were they ostracized for a long time or did people just eventually forgive them and moved on with their lives?

I'm extremely angry about the education I got in high school and I want to right those wrongs, but I have no idea about how to study history, how can I avoid deceitful sources and where can I find information to begin with?

I know it's a line from Falstaff in one of the plays about Henry V in his younger, wilder days. From the context he's talking with a character named Shallow talking about how they're getting older, but I can't tell if they mean "we've raised hell" or "we hear the time of death coming close" or what it means.

Tried doing a Google search and I just found a bunch of reviews of Orson Welles's movie.

They aren't particularly big, as states go. If they were combined into one state they would still be smaller than a lot of states, and their population has always been pretty low. Why were two separate states carved out of that territory when there could have easily been one state called Dakota?

I'd like to know more about Hitler's rise to power, but don't know what resources to use. Can any of you recommend any decent books or studies that describe Hitler's political activities form 1919 to 1934 in detail?

Thank you in advance.

I've always been curious why Admiral Kimmel, the commander of the Pacific Fleet, got demoted and blamed for the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor but MacArthur, who commanded the Army in the Philippines, is considered a hero even though 1.) MacArthur had a warning an attack was coming after Pearl Harbor and 2.) he fumbled any response to the attack and 3.) had to flee the islands and allowed the largest capture of US troops in American history?

Surely MacArthur's fuckup, leaving 76,000 American and Filipino troops behind, is arguably worse since he had (or should have) known the Japanese were coming.

So why the double standard? Why didn't he get demoted?

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The way i understand it, the greater balkans outside greece, including the region of what is today Romania (Dacia), became latinized through roman dominance and influence untill its collapse and the adoption of greek as a substitute lingua franca by the Byzantines. The slavs who came into the region then managed to gradually assimilate the populations of the region like the Thracians and Illyrians, with exceptions of peoples either geographically isolated such as mountanous regions (Albanians, Vlachs), or peoples whose culture/language held a priviledged position in Byzantine society (Greek). I can't understand how Romanian has survived to this day, without being assimilated by another "barbarian" language group. The language is isolated, and the regions of Wallachia and Moldavia include large swathes of land vulnerable for conquest and domination by migrating people groups (Bulgarians, Pechenegs, Mongols) similar to pannonia, which itself became Magyarized.

I am not finding much in the way of analysis of the Southern economy and the value created by slave labor. I was exploring this because in some states, over 50% of all households owned a slave and I wanted to see if there are numbers that tracked the economic impact of slavery in the South before they declared war.

"From this perspective, the post-War North-South disparity of roughly two-to-one in per capita income, a persistent feature of the U.S. economy between the Civil War and World War II, was basically consistent with prewar patterns."

Gavin Wright - Slavery and American Economic Development

The above has been the best I have found, but no real discussion with respect to the impact of slavery on any of those numbers. Ideally, the comparison would include the productivity of slaves against that of wage laborers in the same industry in the same state. But I realize this is a huge ask.

I'm specifically interested in the journey. Assuming that they would have been travelling on nothing much more than a longboat, how long would it have actually taken to sail to Vinland, and how would they prepare for this journey?

Did they sleep on the boat in shifts? What did they eat? Would they not freeze to death on the way there in the icy Atlantic waters?

I'm looking for sources with which to rebut Holocaust deniers. Give me your best.

It seems like every few months there's a new discovery of an old site under newer construction. Some times the old sites are fairly old, some times they're from the 1800s. How exactly do these sites end up so far under ground that new construction is made on top of them without people realizing? As an example, how do parts of a house built in the 1700s sink below the level of the rest of the land and what exactly leads to these parts being covered?

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I'm reading about the history of the late Republic and it seems that for a bunch of years, the Romans were busy fighting among themselves. I thought that this would had let them in a very uncovered position, the perfect moment for an enemy to attack. I know that Carthage was already destroyed at the time, but the other great Rome's enemy, Persia, still existed. If I was the ruler of a great power, I would definitely choose the moment of a civil war to take over my enemy once and forever. Why didn't the Persians do that? Why didn't they take advantage of the social unrest in Rome? What was happening at their country at the time?

I’m curious to know if they were discussing surrendering after the first bomb on August 6, 1945. Did they anticipate a second bomb? Was there pressure from other countries to surrender? Were they focusing on a recovery effort for Hiroshima? Also, were Japanese citizens calling for a surrender?