Apparently my grand-mother left Yugoslavia in the late 1950's and was therefore put on a "list" of some sort for leaving the country. When she came back around 1965 she was tracked down on the train north in todays Croatia, and was brought in for questioning. Do you think this actually happened, based on your knowledge of Yugoslavia back then, or has my grand-father just made her story more interesting?

I just heard this for the first time, and I'm surprised that I haven't heard of it before. Someone mentioned it in passing on a podcast I listen to and, after some quick Googling, it seems to be true. It seems crazy to me that this was the case, and that I had never heard of this until now.

Is it true that most public swimming pools (including school pools) enforced a rule of nude-only swimming? What was the reasoning here? Also, what prompted the cultural shift away from this? It seems to be counter to the typical trend of society becoming less modest over time.

I never understood that, why did they call them southern barbarians? Relative to Japan, their countries were on the west, and they often came from the direction of India and China, did they not? Wouldn't it make more sense for them to be either Western Barbarians or Northern Barbarians?

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I'm writing a historical fiction novel where the main character is a student at a university in Scotland, but his ability to speak German is important later in the story. How likely is it that he'd have learned it in school?

So I recently read Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg and xi talked a lot about historical figures such as Joan of Arc probably being trans and just not having the same terminology. Has anyone read this book and some of the references from it? Does anyone have any notes, historical context, or in general have any extension on these ideas? Other figures mentioned included an early Pope, a group of Scottish rebels, and pretty much the entirety of indigenous Americans. This is the only historical anthology of trans people I have seen, and I would really like to know more about other sources. I called this Speculation vs Fact btw because a lot of Feinberg’s stuff seemed like speculation and interpretation of fact.

I've been trying to finish the book and it has been a real struggle. Their lives keep going from bad to worse and the truly terrible thing is that it all seems so plausible. Small ups and steep downs that are truly heart breaking. All these things to happen to this one family in the way that they do however is a bit suspicious. How much of this is a true reflection of turn of the century America and how much of it is what the dust cover suggests is "muck raking"?

I am a student wrapping up my BA program to become a Social Studies teacher in the next year. As part of my history degree, I am required to write a historiography as my senior thesis. Though I am excited about the project, historiography is a new field for me. I have always enjoyed research papers, but I am having trouble focusing my ideas in this type of paper. I don't consider myself dumb, but I feel like I'm just not getting this concept down. Below, I've covered where a bulk of my research has been focused and where I hope for it to end up. I am not asking for HW help, but a nudge in the right direction or even if someone experienced in this field could mentor me through this process, I would be happier than a pig a shit.

I always found it fascinating that George Washington the man never wanted to represent the US as a king, however, in death, he was almost instantly deified. Part of my essay wants to cover the writings of Weems, McGuffy, Jared Sparks and their role in propagating the legend of Washington and how his legend became a beacon of light for many Americans in their evolution from the Revolutionary era and into the modern age. Even the art inspired by him (The Apotheosis of Washington in the Capital Building, and Greenough's half naked statue of Washington) are to me, somewhat odd.

In my research, I had come across an amazing essay from Curtis Nettels (1947) which focused on how the power of his myth slowly burned out by the time of WWI and asked a similar question to what I am focusing on. In many regards, he was absolutely right. Nonetheless, since his essay, the Cold War took place (some would say it never ended), Watergate, the War on Terror, and the Trump presidency have brought a whole slew of new ideals to the table in regards to the office of the President. Not only has the role evolved, the image has too.

With all of this information at hand, what place has the modern deconstructivist world have for Washington? In a recent book by Erica Dunbar, Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, George Washington is seen as a ruthless slave captor, afraid of his wife's displeasure, and unwilling to let something, let alone a person, go. Dunbar has no qualms of taking Washington down from his throne. Also, considering the popular backlash many memorials have received in the past few years, is Washington's namesake next?

I heard an interesting family story from an older gentelman in Poland and I would like to verify how much of the story is true.

So an older gentleman who is a friend of my father told me a story about his step-grandpa (his grandmother's second husband).

The step-grandpa reportedly drunkenly signed up for the US Army and when he sobered up he tried to run away, but was caught 3 states away and sent to Europe.

In Europe he fought at Verdun (?) where his entire unit was decimated and only 14 people survived. Step-grandpa was awarded a silver star for his action in combat.

When they were relieved from their position and sent behind the front lines to rest. Behind the front line they see normal civilan life, people drinking in caffes and enjoying life. They reportedly took a military truck, loaded a machine gun on the truck, went to the city center and started shooting up the town square.

To avoid getting them court-martialed they were first placed in a psychiatric hospital than sent back to the US where after the war ended they were discharged from the Army.

Fast forward many years and step-grandpa somehow ended up in Poland ruled by communists. In the early 1950's step-grandpa and his family were living in abject poverty, so in an act of desperation he decides to visit the US embassy and ask for some kind of financial assistance. In the US embassy when they checked his ID everybody was very surprised, as he was considered a war hero in the US and he and the other 14 survivors were kind of famous and were being searched for. He got a veteran pension of 300 dollars, which was a lot of money in 1950's Poland and even when the communists took half of that monthly pension and gave it back to him in "dollar bonds" the pension still allowed him and his family to live very comfortably.

So how much of this story could be true?

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During World War Two, and before, it's clear that Adolf Hitler had a vast amount of supporters, some even fanatical. Fast forward to modern day Germany, and showing support for the Nazi party can even be a crime. At what point after the war was lost and Hitler committed suicide did support begin to fade? Was it immediately after? I can imagine some SS troops even refused to stop fighting the war, but how widespread was this?

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I've been on a documentary binge of some of the worst Communist dictators of the 20th century throughout the world: from Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, Tito and Ceausescu.

Is there a great book with an overview over Communism - from Marx throughout the different regimes of the 20th Century. Something that goes into the intentions, what went wrong and what was Marx's original proposition

Whenever I see scale maps or recreations of battlefields, it boggles my mind how many anti-tank obstacles exist in one plane or how extensive trenches and bunkers can get. How exactly were areas such as this prepped for war? Did opposing parties know in advance where they would be fighting and just set up camp or were developments made as battle raged on?

"How did missionaries contribute to the spread of Western Empires in the Nineteenth Century?"

I'm a 2nd year Uni student and am struggling slightly with this question. I'm using Africa as a case study, but am lacking content to make up my main arguments.

I've selected Britain, France and Germany as sub- case studies, to focus on the efforts of missionaries from these countries within Africa.

Any pointers, contributions or sources would be greatly appreciated.

To be more specific, the era before Hitler became Chancellor, from the 1920s until the early 1930s.