Hi everyone,

I'm doing some research to try to discern why American comics fell so far behind Manga in scope of distribution and breath of content, and one event that seems to me to be one of the major turning points was the 1950s Moral Panic and ensuing comics code.

The most glaring issue I am puzzed by is how draconian the code was, and I wonder why, when the MPAA adopted a scale system that allowed for more "adult" content to be flagged with an R rating, that the CCA adopted such a crippling blanket policy rather than one that couldn't better balance creator freedom and parental reassurance. It seems to me that if they had adopted a better rating system that comics could have continued to blossom their genre diversity and could have prevented themselves from being locked in as "kids stuff", a bias whose lingering legacy can be felt today.

My second part of this double-barrelled question has to do with wether or not I'm correct in starting with the CCA as the "diverging point" that set Manga on a more successful path than the "stunted" American comics route. To what extent is this true? The CCA seemed to me to hit at a formative time in comic's life, where manga's moral panic occurred much later after the industry was established enough that it could weather it, but that's just my active theory and I'm trying to find counterpoints to it. I admit that this is somewhat of a difficult question since there's no alternate timeline to compare to, so I'm really just trying to direct my further research in this area so any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

Thanks historians!

In America and the Western World broadly, it seems like there was a mindset shift over maybe 15 years in the 50s and 60s that cigarettes were bad for you, and that smoking should be discouraged in any way possible, including health warning on cigarette packages and bans on tobacco advertisements. Also the tobacco industry tried to muddy the waters in public opinion and spread the lie that smoking wasn't actually unhealthy.

In a command economy like the Soviet Union, how did the government respond to the public health challenge? Did they cut back production of tobacco, did they do public service announcements?

I'm just wondering because things "evolve" and when things do that, other things become old. So in time, there were new and old things. Was there a market for older items in the 1800s & 1700s?

Hey everyone! I was wondering if anyone knew more about the 1964 letter sent to MLK from the FBI that was a thinly veiled threat suggesting that if he doesn't commit suicide he will have consequences. From what I've read, people think William Sullivan, the Deputy FBI Director, was the author of the letter.

It seems like a really messed up thing for the FBI to send to a citizen. Since this happened decades ago, has there been any official or unofficial statements regarding this by any later FBI officials? What have they had to say about this?

I know cars outnumbered carriages somewhere between 1915 and 1930, but I’m curious when they were outright prohibited from most cities.

We all know about the political, sometimes continent-spanning marriages held together by a tight web of alliances. This makes me wonder, how would a German noblewoman be expected to interact with, say, her new Irish husband? I'm assuming Gaelic wouldn't be part of her education, so did she just learn the language over-time post-marriage? Would the husband learn her language, instead? Did she have an on-call translator?

It's from "The Paranoid Style in American Politics", and he's quoting somebody else.

If so, how did the Vatican attempt to rein in the abuses of the Church in Spain?

Is there a reference resource for old cast iron hardware? I have a piece I’m curious about and think it may be from an old sailing ship or possibly a coach of some sort.

As in, who was a well-known, well-respected, and effective tank general in the Imperial Japanese army?

Small liberal arts colleges often seem to have good math and/or physics programs, whereas very closely related STEM fields are not present at all. How did this come to be?

Hi,

I saw my cousin play the latest assasin's creed, and in it the pyramids seems to be really well preserved. I know that the were already very old at that time (around 2500 years old if I'm not mistaken). How realistic is the game in that regard ? Were the pyramid closer to their original state or they were closer to their current state ?

Thanks for your answers :)

[deleted]

EDIT: Answered, thanks to u/AncientHistory! Hi all, I'm reading Safire's "The First Dissident - The Book of Job in Today's Politics". Safire includes a full translation of the Biblical text in the appendix, and that's where these two abbreviations appear. Thanks!

I know shell shock was the term used to describe what we now know as PTSD. But was there a name for people who had PTSD during times when people used swords and bows? How was it treated by society?

I'm writing a paper on Ukrainian perception of Nazi occupation during WWII. I was wondering how to classify Raphael Lemkin's "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, Analysis of Government, Proposals for Redress" (1944) - would it be considered a primary source or a secondary source? Thanks in advance.