...or am I just reading something into this that isn't really there?

Okay I know "Ancient Rome" covers ~1000 years, but I'd love to see a snapshot of wages/goods at some point in Roman history. As something of a "wage slave" myself I think it would be cool to compare my own income/lifestyle with what I would be able to afford in Ancient Rome.

Google throws up some results but they are very poorly written and entirely unsourced.

For my entire life I've been interested in history, mainly the 20th century. It was rather a mini hobby at first, but after the years I started to develop more interest in it, now I want to know as much as possible but have no idea how or where to start.

The eras which I like are as following,

13-15th century Europe 18th Century Europe 20th Century across the world.

Please suggest me any documents, movies or any tips of where should I start.

With the French assisting the colonists why did they not directly attack England instead of sailing across the ocean to fight english soldiers?

My understanding is that Lincoln warned states in rebellion that he would emancipate slaves under their jurisdiction if they did not rejoin the Union. But the whole reason those states were in rebellion was because they feared the Federal government would pursue abolition. So it sounds like from the point of view of a rebel state, the options were:

1) Rejoin the union and see slaves freed by abolition. 2) Stay in rebellion and maybe see slaves freed by emancipation.

Those two options kind of look the same.

Did Lincoln actually believe this would be an effective way to motivate rebel states to rejoin the Union? If so, why?

So, I'm a law student, and I want to write a thesis about the intellectual property rights of an architect over any architectural project that he may have designed. In this sense, I need to read tons of books about the History of Architecture. So, I'd like to have some recommendations on the matter.

When the Nazis made expensive, hard-to-maintain tanks like the Tiger, was that an ideological decision or a secular mistake that any military could have made?

Clickbait title is really true. My knowledge of Japanese history before the Meiji era comes from a 1940's textbook (Latourette's "A Short History of the Far East") I read fifteen years ago, a Stephen Turnbull book about samurai, and occasional forays into Wikipedia. I thought about refreshing (or should it be rebooting?) my knowledge, but when I checked out this reddit's book recs, the books listed there -- a survey history of pre-modern Japan & several specialist works -- daunted me a little. Is "Japan Emerging" (the survey history) really the best one-volume work in English available for amateur readers?

Books about Roman architecture generally show the typical Roman villa, which – AFAIK – is very suitable for the mild climate of the Mediterranean.

Yet when their empire expanded, they were confronted with the vastly different weather of, e.g. Switzerland or the British Isles. Is there any surviving evidence about how the Romans adapted their architecture to cope with the harsher weather of these regions or did they just build in the same style they used near Rome?

I'm just really curious how such a ridiculously obvious and simple design took so long to be invented and put to effective use in warfare. To my limited knowledge it peaked around the medieval age. I have no knowledge on the matter but common logic dictates that this is the equalent of spears being invented as late as the viking age or something. It just doesen't make sense to me, can someone explain it to me?

In vol. 2 of Rowley's "Exploring Russia's Past (1856-present)," he talks about how there were Russian majorities in some of the Satellite States. Did the Soviet government migrate people with the intent of creating these majorities or was it free movement of the citizenery? If this movement was intended, what was the reasoning behind this movement of the population?

I am interested in the pre-1492 time period. Is there any literature on how people in the Great Plains of North America understood, dealt with, and survived powerful storms? Are there any stories of large storms during which significant numbers of people perished? Did they try to react in advance of storms? Did they have protocols for what to do with their lodgings during storms?

Sorry I get that my question may not be clear : today Orwell and his works seem to be used as a reference by everyone from socialists (that's obvious) to liberals/centrists (I can see why the anti-authoritarian part, but you can't just leave the rest) to far-right people (what the hell ?).

Si I'm wondering when did this trend start ? I just try to understand how an author can be that liked by people he literally fought against ?

As some of you may know, the Grimm's fairy tales changed between the first and subsequent editions, i.e. they were turned more fitting for children, some of the more crude elements were changed, etc.

Now, I was looking for books that study this kind of evolution of fairy tales. Any ideas on a few good ones?

In films and fiction books they always just shove something in their tunic and it magically stays there until they need it. It seems unlikely. How did people store personal belongings on them?

How can I find more about my grandfather (Navel photographer) and confirm he was on the Enola Gay/Bockscar. We have documents from JS Parsons stating his involvement. My grandfather stated that he took that famous picture of the mushroom cloud. My family always believed my grandfather lied because he is no where in the history books. I have found a picture and video of him singing the Fat Man. I have found a document releasing him from verbal orders from JS Parsons. My grandfather also claims to have signed the inside of the Enola Gay, I have found a picture of some signatures but the picture is in poor quality to make out any names. This is all resent findings and I think there is more to his story.

Edit: I don't know how but I misspelled my Grandfathers name Fay Eliason Millward.

This came to me when I saw the process of cheese making. And it's not really something I could think of people inventing.

I would like to learn about the Bronze Age in general and perhaps the Sumerians in particular. Which books are a good place to start?