It seems to me there are two camps: 1) Thomas Jefferson merely considered Sally his property and he was her rapist, and 2) Thomas Jefferson was in love with Sally and kept the affair secret because society would not be accept it. What's the most likely answer? Was it something in between?

Additionally, there has been outright rejection of any relationship between them. But for the purpose of my question, lets assume it existed.

Apologies in advance if this is an insensitive question. My parents are different races and interracial relationships in history fascinate me.

I'm looking to understand clearly how it came about, get a clear grasp of how the territory ownership evolved during the three major phases of the war, and the fallout of the war (War of the Roses, etc). I find plenty of informations about Crecy, Agincourt, and how warfare changed during the war but I'd like to learn more about the entire chronology and politics of the time.

How large were the groups that first landed on the islands? Were there frequent immigrations? Did new inhabitants sometimes assimilate easily with the old ones on an island or were there battles, slavery and expulsions?
Did native explorers sometime head “back” to previously settled islands or was the migration pretty clearly towards the unsettled islands?

Hey,

Can historians recommend a biography of Hitler and/or a book about Germany under Hitler, that has more of a narrative or polemical flow? I'm a philosophy student, not history, and the history books I can usually get through are usually less 'scholarly' presented and more polemical or literary. E.g., I love Zinn's Peoples' History, and I love the way Simon Sebag Montifore can make history read like a novel (Stephen Kinzer seems to have this ability too). So basically, any history books on the subject in question that are not just a list of dates, and events, told in a chronological order, without flare.

Thank you!

So today is the feast day of St. Matthias the Apostle on the Roman Catholic calendar, the one who was chosen by the Eleven to replace Judas Iscariot. It struck me that at least in modern English in the US, this name is relatively uncommon as a given name compared to the other Apostles, the four Evangelists, and other New Testament/early Christian figures. I get why the “big ones” like Peter, John, and Andrew are such popular names, but even Bartholomew and Nathaniel seem to be more common.

On the flip side, I know that Matthias is a very popular name in the German speaking world and throughout Central Europe. And at least in German it’s Matthew that seems less common, or gets conflated with Matthias (Matthäus, as far as I recall, is mostly only used for the actual biblical figure). In fact, almost any time I’ve met an American whose name is Matthias, he comes from a family that’s very consciously ethnically German.

Could it be because of reinforcement, or lack thereof, by other historical figures, like how Martin is such a common name in Germany because of Martin Luther? Or is it just based on unpredictable popularity trends?

So I heared some story a while back about some civilian during WW2 in America who was deputized as an Admiral with some honorary role in the navy for his role in overseeing the construction of munitions factories. Does anyone have any good sources or more info for stuff like this? I know for example the guy who played Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump was given an honorary commission in the navy for his work with wounded veterans, but Im specifically looking for WW2 era stuff and what that process would be like.

I've been looking for such a list or lists and I would like any assistance in finding one. I need names of people and I would like lists as I don't want to waste anyone else's time doing research. I just would like to be directed to existing resources.

I know this is a very long period of time so it probably varied. Did people in the Byzantine Empire call Constantinople Rome? Did other states refer to Byzantium as the Roman empire? What did the catholic church think? When the crusades were called were they considered to be helping the Roman empire?

As in, if Hitler was killed at an early age, would the holocaust still have happened?

My fiancé and I are visiting Calgary next month and I found this peculiar. Calgary has 1.4 million people and the whole province of Alberta has over 4 million people. By contrast, the entire state of Montana (the US state bordering Alberta) has fewer people than the city of Calgary, and Billings, the most populous city in Montana, only has about 100k people.

Both places are of similar cold climates and landlocked, so why do so many more people live in Alberta than Montana? How did Alberta get to be so populated?

Let's say, for ww2, what would be a synthesis, book, and a monography?

What I mean is since the fastest way to travel back then was riding horses (and it's not that fast), were people aware that it's night time on the other side of the planet? Considering they didn't even know the earth is round for sure, I can't see how they might realise this. When was the first time someone mentioned this subject ? Did ancient greeks or egyptians know this ? Thanks!

There was a scene from the movie Butler where Mariah Carey gets raped by a white plantation owner. I never saw the film but that scene popped up in my suggested videos on YouTube for some reason. The comment section was obviously "Race War: Nobody Wins", but there was this one guy or a girl ,I'm not sure posted like 15 to 20 links to studies, research papers and books that says it successfully debunked that "black slave women were raped by their masters" as a matter of fact all the 'proofs' the user provided states that such occurrences are rare and majority of them are consensual. I ignored. But when I googled on that the results doesn't show up that "rapes in plantation never happened" , it showed the opposite. Heck,even the links s/he posted didn't pop up. The video now has 13k comments so it's near impossible for me to get it back. And the only thing I could find was a book called, "Making Black History" by Jeffrey Allen Snyder which backed what s/he said. Other than that, nothing. So care to give any kind of unbiased clarification on this?

P.S.: I'm new to this sub, this is my first post here and I'm indian .

Recently found about 150 photographs that my great grandfather took in France during the First World War when he was driving ambulances. I cannot post images in here but they are very silvery and I think they are some type of silver nitrate photography. Anyone have any advice on how best to preserve them? I wish I could post them in here.. they were an amazing find and he documented the complete destruction of Northern France where he was stationed.

From what I can tell, Churches in medieval Europe had a lot more power than they do in modern day. To the point where they would had authority on most kings, or say I was told. Of course, I find this hard to believe, though not entirely implausible, so I had to ask how powerful the Church actually was in medieval Europe from you guys. How powerful was the church and how did they obtain said amount of power?

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A lot of Early Modern English drama features jokey sideswipes against Continental fashion (and overt social commentary has plenty to say too) but to a modern reader a lot of the specific references can be a little obscure -- what were some of the visual hallmarks of, say, Italian-influenced or Spanish-influenced costuming in the late 16th/early 17th century? Did Continental authors remark on English influences penetrating trendy circles?

As an American, I've always grown up reading about P-51 Mustangs, but never as much about the definitive fighter of the RAF. Was there a fighter that was as predominantly used by the British as the Mustang was for the Americans?