Edit: Thank you everyone who has told me about the cafeteria at the National Museum of the American Indian. I didn't know about it before. I know about it now.

I appreciate that this is not the type of question Askhistorians normally answers, but I would very much appreciate some advice from those who have already been through the PHD application experience. Specifically those who have successfully applied to a branch of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Thanks in advance.

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Title is the question, i'm starting to get interested into Holy roman empire politics and it made me wonder if these different cultural states though of their own unified state instead of being part of a new (holy) Roman empire.

Asking because in the new CoD WW2 game one of the objectives is to capture an enemy anti-air gun and use it to take down some stukas.

Has it been done/is it a viable choice?

A while ago I read this in an article about the Muslim Conquest of Spain:

The Umayad conquest of Hispania gave birth to a period in human history of almost unique cultural exchange. So famed did the academies and libraries of Muslim Spain become, where Jews, Christians and Muslims studied and collaborated together, that scholars flocked there from such centers of learning as Paris and Oxford universities.

How much truth is there behind this? Do any contemporany accounts about the aforementioned universities exist? Additionally, how were Jews and Christians treated during Muslim rule, and how did the three religions react to each other's presence?

I'm particularly interested in the first two centuries of Muslim reign, but any info on the entirety of the occupation is apreciated.

(British guy here, apologies if this is common knowledge in America)

Did native American culture modernise at all? Etc

Thanks!

And also, what was the usual "every day carry" like?

I’m the Bible it speaks a lot about the Egyptians enslaving the Hebrews and just being evil in general. How accurate are the stories?

Wikipedia says we're not really sure but fletchers understood twisting the fletching on an arrow would improve accuracy. What's the prevailing theory on how rifling was invented?

Did they know all the stories of the Bible, and all the details of Catholic doctrine? How was their knowledge of Christianity transmitted? Was it accurate?

I see so many threads with people new to the sub who don't understand nothing but deleted comments in a thread. Additionally, some users may not return to a post where there were no comments to see if it has eventually been answered.

What if we allowed users to post placeholder text, for example "Answer in progress" or some other boilerplate language that ideally would not detract from the quality of the post, while allowing some insight into when a user may be answering in a long-winded and well-explained comment?

It seems like such a logical plan, yet Lee rejected it and catastrophically lost. I know one reason Lee gave for rejecting it was that it might look like retreat, but wouldn't the Confederate victory on July 1 have made it not look like that?

I'm not trying to make this into a hypothetical question, but I guess I'm wondering why Longstreet wasn't given more credit at the time and still doesn't seem to be widely acknowledgement for that as well as his other advice at Gettysburg that was ignored but turned out to be completely correct, such as about Picket's Charge.

The idea of cutting off an army from its capital to force battle even seems supported by Sun Tzu's The Art of War:

If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve. (The Art of War 6:11)

Hello all, So I have a big term paper coming up. It's described as a synthetic exercise of 2500 words on any topic that falls in the period 600-2000. (I know, super wide lol.) I wasn't thrilled with my grade on my last paper so I really want to make sure I think this one through and come up with something interesting, concrete, and supportable. I'm looking for advice as to the viability of a few of my ideas and help in locating good primary and secondary sources. I'm very interested in the cultural influences the Vikings exerted and the ways in which they shaped/influenced the societies around them through fear, settlement, and trade. -The Vikings brought a wave of mini-globalization to Russia, Arabia, the Mediterranean and the British Isles through both trade and warfare. (To help ground this I would want to focus on a few key figures and a very specific time period where Vikings were actively trading/exploring in several different parts of the world) -The Vikings were the main impetus for the unification of England. (This is a theory I've heard, I'm not sure how provable it is but I find the concept interesting.) I still have very general ideas but I hope this gives an idea of what I'm looking to talk about. I also find the Vikings in Sicily very interesting if anyone happens to know a lot on that. Any advice or references to sources is very appreciated.

Couldn't seem to find an answer online, but did the B-29's face any resistance flying over the two cities? From the videos online, it appears that there was no anti-aircraft or other fighters intercepting the bombers, allowing them to simply fly over the destination. Apologies if I missed a previous post on this subject or it just being a dumb question in general.

we've got little on their language, their ethnicity, etc.

And why did Hitler insist on the existence of the SS in the first place? Was his control over the Wermacht limited?

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I only ask because I noticed this week's theme was "20th Century Native America", which, while interesting, struck me as strange seeing as it is the 100th anniversary of a very important historical event.

By that time, the Soviets had a ceasefire with Japan and were on friendly terms with Germany, so it would make sense to view them as an enemy. Yet the west seemingly ignored the Soviets even though they did the exact same thing as Germany did.