Reading "Albion's Seed" lately, and I was shocked to find out how severe the persecution of Quakers was in both the Puritan and Anglican colonies. They were hanged, tortured, whipped, put in jail and pissed on by townspeople, etc. seemingly everywhere they went. Why were the other Protestant colonies in the area united in such fierce hatred of them? What was this based on?

Hi! I've been wondering how those that produced more milk then they could use sold it on and how it was transported. I'm mostly interested in 1700-1920 but anything is interesting.

Thank you in advance.

I've read about the Werewolves and know there were large numbers of hard core Nazi's were operating throughout Germany. I've always been curious as to why we never hear of any significant resistance movement operating after the war

In a 1926 interview with the Los Angeles Examiner he stated: “These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule”.

if this quote is true wouldint it solve the entire genocide debate? The Turks cannot deny the word of their founding father.

I've been looking for old town/city maps and can't find, well, anything, prior to the Liber insularum Archipelagi of 1420. The Wikipedia article for the author claims that his map of Constantinople is the oldest surviving map of the city. The fact that we have no maps of such a significant city before this point would suggest that city maps were, if not nonexistent, at least vanishingly rare, and the fact that I can't find any seems to bear this out. Is this true? And if so, why? I realise it might be hard to find positive reasons why people didn't do something, but it does seem like a strange omission. I know larger-scale maps existed well before this point. Would it not naturally occur to someone to apply the same principle to urban spaces? Was it just not worth the effort?

Sorry if this might be considered a basic fact, but I always get varied responses on what exactly historical significance is and how to evaluate it.

The Spanish basically drained the gold and silver mines in Mexico, and subsequent gold rushes depleted veins in Georgia, California, Colorado, Nevada, and throughout the rest of the American West. What happened to all of it? What was it used for?

I know the ocean is big, and exploration far away from home is difficult, but Antarctica isn't exactly easy to miss either. Did no one in the late 17th or early 18th century, well after Australia was colonized by Europeans, decide to just sail south and see what happens?

And furthermore why, all of a sudden, in 1820, a whole 3 different nations made near-simultaneous claims of discovering Antactica - Bellingshausen (Russia), Bransfield (UK), and Palmer (USA)? Is this a coincidence or a planned "Scramble for Antarctica"?

I have read that the symbol denotes evil, death and other stuff like that, so does that suggest that the SS knew that they were evil?

Looking at the terrain of Iberia, there are many rough geographical features. However, many polities which existed in the peninsula made great use of horses for war, ex: Umayyad, Almoravid, Castille. Why is it that such a hilly area became dominated by states with an emphasis on horseback riding?

I am familiar with the Incident of Antioch but not of anything else, if they didnt get along was there a rift between churches that followed Christianity, some that followed James and others that followed Paul.

I'm trying to find out more about the status of onmyoji (official astrologers and sorcerers, for lack of a better term) during the Heian and post Heian eras of Japan. Specifically, what sort of housing did they live in, and what sort of daily lives did they lead? Were they permanently stationed in the capital in their own households? Or was it more like a monastery situation? Who were they deferential to, and who did they outrank?

I'm also particularly interested in what kinds of rituals they performed, or whether most of their duties consisted of things such as calendar-making (and if so, was this a collaborative effort with other Onmyoji? How was this handled?)

Thank you in advance!

Hi all!

I’m a sophomore undergraduate student studying History & political science. I am seriously considering going to grad school to get my PHD in history - possibly Church History.

Do any historians have any advice here on this? I’ve met with two advisors so far and plan on meeting with more going forward, but any tips would be appreciated.

I was googling this question when I stumbled across this subreddit, and it seemed like a good place to ask. I'm looking for primary or secondary sources about German coverage of the atom bomb dropping (I've already located coverage from America, Britain and Japan.) I'm using this info to write a paper for a media history class. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

I recently watched the Ken Burns Civil War documentary, in which Shelby Foote commented that he believed the North won the war against the South “with one hand tied behind it’s back”. Growing up in the deep south, this was a sentiment I’d not heard expressed. Is this a commonly held belief amongst historians? That the South never really had a chance if the North would have gone “all in”?

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