For example during the battle of Kursk I’ve always imagined it as the German with their Tiger and Panther on side far away and the Soviets wither their KV-1’s and T-34’s on the other far away.

I'm particularly interested in Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and all the presidents who might have traveled on state voyages before comfortable air travel.

The recent post and answers regarding OSHA got me thinking about women and children working in textiles factories and whatnot. Was there a shift in roles from employee to traditional homemaker then back to employee again?

Did people back then not know that Hugo Boss was in the Nazi party and designed the SS uniforms? Wouldn't they have gotten any backlash for being associated with the Nazis?

Also, are there any other companies that were heavily associated with the Nazis and still exist today?

Can you recommend any books on the subject written from their viewpoint. I’ve always wondered how that would differ from the vast amounts of American litterateur available.

My history teacher said some historians say it could of put us back 1,000 years but honestly that’s quite a lot

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I have been to italy and toured Rome and Venice and this thought just occured to me. How did the intricately carved fountains survive? It just seems like such an odd stand out when so much of Rome is ruins, and much of the existing sculpture has broken pieces.

I am writing a research paper on the evolution of religion in China and I am currently searching for any primary sources of specific Struggle Sessions and Self Criticisms attributed to religion. I am super excited about this topic, however, I've never done academic research of any sort and I have zero idea where to start.

I found a book titled, "China's Catholics: Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)" however the Google preview does not show any of the sources used.

Are there databases/collections of any sort I could search for primary sources? Can anybody point me in the right direction to finding a primary source in Chinese or preferably translated to English related to this topic?

Having just watched The Darkest Hour and Dunkirk and seeing what the soldiers had to go through to get home, I was wondering how many of those saved ended up in Normandy?

If so, are there any accounts of the experiences of the soldiers who endured this?

I enjoy reading books that dig into details, but I find that I lack a basic framework to truly understand tough material. I lack higher education, so even pointing me in the right direction will help me out a ton. Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone!

Bit of context, I'm writing a story that happens mainly in the Humboldt Bay area, and I'm curious to know more about the cultural history of the local native tribes since it comes into play at certain points in the story. I've been googling around but haven't found much about the cultural practices and religion in the area, is it simply because the knowledge is lost or am I just looking in the wrong places?

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You always hear about the Western European knights and Chivalry, but you hardly hear anything about the Islamic military orginziation and society from these times. Did they even have a warrior class similar to the European knights?

How did American Native peoples in North America specifically (by which I mean North of the Nahua peoples) procure clean water for drinking. I know the Aztecs built aqueducts, built dykes in Lake Texcoco and drank pulque, which is essentially an agave wine to greatly simplify it, which is why I'm asking about those to the North of them. Were they only reliant on springs and natural water sources, did they have ways to purify water such as boiling? Did they use fermentation to produce alcoholic drinks that would be safer to consume? Did the methods differ from culture to culture across pre-columbian Canada and the United State? And if this is not too much did it change after the arrival of Europeans?

Anyone who knows where chess openings get their names from and why the B77 line, a line against Sicilian, is called Yugoslav attack? Regards

I understand it was Napoleon's suggestion that Karl I be elected Romania's first king. Who 'elected' him, how was Napoleon in a position to offer this suggestion, and was this practice of 'parachuting' foreign nobles in to rule countries not of their birth common at that time?

Whenever the Byzantine Empire is discussed online, inevitably someone will appear to argue against the use of that name on the basis of the Byzantine Empire really being the Roman Empire. While there's obviously truth to this, I can't help but feel as though it comes from a place of fanboyism - like the Byzantines will seem cooler if they're identified more closely with the Romans, and the discontinuities and transformations which caused historians to adopt the name "Byzantine" in the first place are downplayed. For some people, it even seems to be a matter of justice, as if the use of the name "Byzantine" is a moral slight against them. I want to understand where this comes from.

So where do actual historians of the Byzantine Empire stand on this question? Do they also tend to view Byzantine history as simply being "Roman history"? Is the Byzantine Empire seen as the single legitimate bearer of the Roman mantle, or is it portrayed as one part of a plural post-Roman Mediterranean world? Do Byzantine historians equate the terms "Roman" and "Byzantine," or even suggest that the name "Byzantine" shouldn't be used at all?