Using numbers taken from Wikipedia, Japanese killed are often 5-10 times higher than U.S. killed. I've heard that this was due to the large number of banzai charges that the Japanese did, suicide on defeat, fighting to the death etc. However, I'm wondering how true these claims are, as well as if there were any other reasons for why that might be.

Edit: "Casualties" -> "Killed" to fix incorrect terminology.

I see reenactments of the American Civil War, Medieval battles, and other conflicts and in them there is a person who holds the flag of the groups and charges into combat. What is the point of the flag in. I'm at since it cannot help a solider fight and to me only makes you an easier target

Also why all the trees in Siberian taiga (biggest forest on earth) are not older than 150-200 years? Is it true that we had a nuclear war and history is falsification ?

Dont be mad if i dont understand something, im just very curious about why the trees at taiga are so young

Or how long after the fact were these types of monikers added on?

In Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome book series, Aurelia is a businesswoman who takes care of the Suburran insula where her family lived for many years. She organizes everything and does all the accounting. I understand there is little historical information about Aurelia, and McCullough adds colourful details to her (excellent) novels, so I'd like to know if there is any evidence that Aurelia was actually a landlady that could provide for herself and her family (for a time, anyway. Advancing in the cursus honorum required an insane amount of money).

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As the title says, Arthur Miller's The Crucible taking place in 1692 gives the name "Tituba" as its one slave character. I understand there's some controversy as to her origins, and that she may not be African at all. But Barbados certainly had a lot of slaves and descendants of slaves, which is the origin Tituba claims in the story.

Anyway, most other slave/former slave characters I can think of in literature, Uncle Tom from Uncle Tom's Cabin and Nigger Jim from Huckleberry Finn, are known by traditionally Christian, European names. During the Century and a half between the events of the Salem Witch Trials and the Civil War, around when did black Americans start to abandon their African (/Caribbean) names?

Not really sure what I'm looking for here (success rate of missions? kill/death ratios? other measures?), but has there been any scholarly work that studied how these two groups did compared to each other?

The common image of concubines in fiction and in historical works is one of beauty and youth. But what happened when they began to age? Were they bounced out of the palace and into the gutter? Palmed off for marriage to a man of a similar age? Or just executed?

My understanding is that most soldiers had iron armour and steel was more commonly used in weapons. How actually common was steel in armour? Did common soldiers have steel armour in late medieval times? Also, how often was steel in plate armour?

Hi all. I'm writing an essay on Aircraft carriers and naval strategy in the Pacific in WW2.

I needed some recommendations or suggestions of which books I should get for this essay.

So far I have thought of the following, which of these should I order?

Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy 1887-1941

Sunburst: The Rise of Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941

Shattered sword

Japanese Destroyer Captain by Tameichi Hara

Neptune's inferno

Hey guys I tried to ask my question on reddit history but they took it down perhaps you guys can help me. I'm currently a junior at Cal State San Bernardino who is a History major and Japanese minor. I'm currently stuck right now with what to do after i get my degree. I love my history since I was a kid and decided I wanted to be a history teacher since middle school but lately I've just wanted to see if there is anything else I can do with my degree. At my school there is three tracks of the history degree track A which is for people who want to be teachers, track B which is for people which is designed for students who want to go into any other field that is open to history majors, and track C that is designed for people who want to work in museums, archives, or libraries. I am in track A but can switch it. I know people go into law school, med school, teach English in Japan, go to grad school for history, go to grad school for anthropology, be a university professor, go to the FBI, be an archivist, or even work for google. Sorry guys to bug with this question it must be tedious for me to ask this but i'm kind of stuck guys my mind is just twirling with what I should do. Thank you Nathan.

I've heard about it in passing, but I'm curious if historians have done any good work on it, yet? What it's causes were? What it's origins were? Putting it into a longer time frame, etc.?

I've seen claims for Iry-Hor and Menes. By "historical figure" I mean a person whose name appears in writing and who was reasonably likely to have actually lived. Meaning Adam doesn't count.

If writing was invented circa 3100 BC, are we likely to find a named person who pre-dates Iry-Hor?