I know this may seem like an odd question but I have a Professor who was born in Canada with a Dual-Citizenship to America because of his American mother. In Canada during elementary school he learned that the UK won the War of 1812 but when he came to America in High School he was taught (as was I since I’m from New Hampshire, USA) that America won the war. I was hoping someone could clarify?

I'm asking this especially as the famous Bath Abbey is actually a church, thus called Bath Abbey Church, and I can't quite make sense of it. Help?

A lot of campaign songs ("Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" is one, and "His Grandfather's Hat") both mention "hard cider" in reference to campaigns, particularly William Henry Harrison's.

So I've noticed a lot of people talking about why feudalism is an inaccurate way of viewing the medieval social and political structure, but can someone please explain why this is? I've read about medieval history quite a bit but I still don't see why the term "fuedalism" is viewed so poorly by this subreddit because, outside of this sub, I've never heard people complaining about the term.

Cheers in advance for anything you guys can tell me.

Wikipedia says Robert Servatius was chosen by Eichmann to represent him and that some laws had to be changed in order to facilitate that.

What was the motivation behind that instead of just providing an Israeli lawyer?

Have blind tests been done? Are these useful historical insights or fantasy? You see them very often in media coverage.

Lots of societies had various kinds of magical beliefs, how did they attempt to use them in war? I mean beyond just sacrifices to the gods.

Specifically, right now I'm super interested in the stories surrounding Reilig Odhráin, but I'm not really sure how to find information about it other than Wikipedia and random blogs that claim to have the "real version." So for this specifically, but also folk myths in general, are there certain places I could go (or books or journals I could read) to get reliable/accurate information? Moreover, how can I tell if a source I'm looking at is to be trusted, since folklore seems to be something necessarily passed down and distorted over time?

(Hopefully this is the right sub to ask this, I'm not 100% where else to ask!)

Dear historians,

back in school, a teacher told us of a battle where opposing sides of the same peoples fought for supremacy. It should've been situated in Frankish Europe around the time of the Merovingians.

What was memorable was the death of a warlord or prince, who, in old pre-classic knight cavalry fashion threw javelin after javelin from his horse, his trusty shield bearer at his side. Shield after shield became full of enemy missiles and his serf would quickly hand him a fresh one. At one such crucial moment, just when his body was exposed, an enemy javelin pierced his heart and he sank from his mount, the battle lost.

I don't know if this anecdote was embellished by my teacher or not. Other than the heroic exchange of javelins there's nothing that I can remember.

Thank you for your time.

Did the religion of Jews during the Holocaust have any impact on how the Nazis treated them? Was there a difference in how Nazi laws treated Christian and non-Christian Jews?

I suppose a related question would be: how did the Nazis define "Jew"?

Original credit to u/okteej over at r/askscience. I would have done a link to their question, but I couldn't figure out how.

I was looking at some maps and this trend seems to be all over the world. I certainly have some guesses, such as expansion stemming from the "easier side" to use, but has this been studied at all?

Just something I was wondering. If all phones were landlines, that would seem redundant.