I'm looking for books on church history. I thought about getting Diarmaid MacCulloch's christianity the first three thousabd years. I'm not sure if it's good.
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Norman Mineta was put into an internment camp as a teenager, and became a mayor in 1971 and in the House of Representatives in 1975. Of course that is decades later, but still, only a generation later it seemed to have completely passed at least in this specific example.
When did the prejudice and discrimination generally end at a notable scale?
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I am in the process of planning a disquisition on the Venetian Republic and the 'empire' it built. However my search for a comprehensive chronology or an abbreviated history has been in vein. Is there a reason why I am running into difficulties, am I not looking hard enough, or is this a genuinely understudied historical period (which would be a good thing for me, writing in the hopes of inspiring originality).
I have looked through the recommended reading in both /r/history and /r/askhistorians yet can fidn nothing of use.
Does anyone have any expertise or experience with the topic?
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In the modern day, if I wanted to see what a representative body was doing I could read the written records documented by the "secretary." Was there any such "secretary" who recorded the events of the pre-imperial Roman Senate? Or after the rise of the Empire, was there any such "secretary" who recorded the day-to-day activities of the Imperial political apparatus? I know that Roman historians describe the high points, but as far as I can find, they don't provide the more mundane details ("Farmer John Doe came before the Senate with grievance X.").
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Was slavery not implemented or used in Britain at the height of its use in the US? If so, how was this subject viewed on the common man/woman/family on this issue in Britain? Did the black slaves ever hear of the American civil war and (one of) its causes over the issue of slavery?
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I've heard claims of Armenians (that were based in the Ottoman Empire) behaving as 5th column citizens, but don't have an in depth knowledge on the situation to properly assess the situation. So how true is it that there were many Armenians helping Russia, France, and other Allied Powers against the Ottoman Empire during WW1?
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I am currently studying the life of Lorca during the Spanish Civil War for a dissertation but can't seem to find much about his political stance.
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Over the course of history, there have been countless groundbreaking innovations made by the Chinese, Arabs, Europeans and Indians, to name a few.
Compare this to the innovations by the people living in the Eastern Hemisphere (pre-colonialism), and the contrast is stark.
Why is this?
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I was recently reading about the rape of Nanking and subsequent Japanese war crimes, and I was shocked to learn of some of these atrocities. It could be argued that Japanese war crimes were just as if not more cruel than those of the Nazis.
When people think about the so called "villains" of history, immediately ideas of Nazism and Hitler come to mind with Hitler being seen widely as one of the worst men in human history. Whereas far fewer people know of Hirohito and his war crimes.
Why was it that Hitler and his actions were condemned by society as one of the greatest evils in history, while emperor Hirohito seemed to some degree escape this societal condemnation?
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Before Ronald Reagan became Governor of California, and eventually, of course, the President, how famous was he? Would the average American have known his name?
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Was it a manner of honor or was there a military reason for doing so?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford
It says "none" for VP when LBJ finished Kennedy's term, but Ford had Rockefeller for his whole presidency.
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Surely there must have been other reported sightings of Mary in the past two thousand years, but this one seems to be a rather big deal. I'm not Catholic, nor really religious at all for that matter, so am struggling to understand why this one event is so important.
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Today:
Saturday Reading and Research will focus on exactly that: the history you have been reading this week and the research you've been working on. It's also the prime thread for requesting books on a particular subject. As with all our weekly features, this thread will be lightly moderated.
So, encountered a recent biography of Stalin that revealed all about his addiction to ragtime piano? Delved into a horrendous piece of presentist and sexist psycho-evolutionary mumbo-jumbo and want to tell us about how bad it was? Need help finding the right book to give the historian in your family? Then this is the thread for you!
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The pattern seems to vary a lot between different countries. Rulers of Native American and African nations seem to be either called chief or king. For China every large scale ruler seems to be an emperor, but with a lot of mid level people having odd titles like prefect,
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Hi, I'm taking my A-level exam on the Norman Conquest in three weeks and this is bothering me to the extent that it's making revision difficult. I read somewhere that William introduced Latin to the Anglo Saxons, but I'm not sure how true that is (isn't the Chronicle written in Latin?).
How did the warring sides communicate? Did they speak one another's respective languages? Was everybody speaking Latin? Were the Normans bilingual? Further, how did the Scandinavians and the Anglo Saxons communicate at Gate Fulford & Stamford Bridge (if there was any communication, that is - I've been taught that Harold surprised them at Stamford & launched an all out battle) - or was that made much easier by whatever remained of the language in England from the Viking conquests?
Thank you!
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What happened after it fired on Paris? After the war?
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Hi everyone
A local newspaper made an article on two crossbow loaders that were found in a neighboring city.
Aside from the fact I have a question about it, I think I should put it here as well because according to what's said in the article it's quite a good find and might interest some of you. (to clarify, it's not these small forked objects, it's a huge thing)
Here is the link to the article (no paywall), it is in French.
I will write down there a full translation of the digital article in case you're curious, just skip it otherwise, my question isn't answered by the article.
Beginning of article
Two crossbow loaders from 1353 found in Sion
image label: The object now exhibited in history museum allowed to load knight's crossbows
Middle Ages: recent studies allowed to shed light on pieces that were found in the Valère arsenal, crossbow loaders built in Winter 1353.
We thought these were catapults. Two pieces of wood were "sleeping" (kinda weak translation but whatever you get it) in the cantonal depots for quite a while. When the arsenal was inventoried, a hundred years ago, we had labelled them as simple catapults. Until the day where an archeologist and German historian, Fabian Brenker, turns his interest to it. According to him, it is not a catapult but a crossbow loader. "I knew of the existence of this object from the literature, but never, to my knowledge, had we found one in real life."
Without waiting, he makes contact with the cantonal museums and goes to Sion. Thanks to his analyses, he manages to determinate the precise date of creation of the object. Winter 1353. The loader although imposing and difficulty transportable, was essential to the knight. Before every shot, this man had to reload his weapon.
From shadow to light
the preservation of these objects is a miracle. "They could have been used to make a fire, says Fabian Baker. The fact they still do exist demonstrates of their value." Their identity found again, the most beautiful of the 2 pieces is today out of the shadow. She has made her entrance in the museum of history where it proudly sits at the entrance.
End of article
(The digital article is smaller than the paper one I have, but the only real difference is that it mentions that it was too heavy to carry around so was probably used for defense of static positions such as towns, the rest of the paper article is really not that interesting)
My questions :
Why did we need this ?
I mean from what I've always seen/read/heard on crossbows, I know they're a pain to reload but I thought that you could always do that with both your hands or with a crank for some. Isn't that ineffective to have to line up/move to the location of the loader and wait for your turn to reload this ? Or did there exist crossbows so powerful you couldn't actually reload them by hand ? Was it because it was too early to have cranks invented ? Because it's cheaper than cranks ? Because it's making it less hard on your body to sustain longs periods of using this weapon ? Because there's less risk of harm to yourself when you reload it this way ?
Googling around, I couldn't even find another picture or mention of static crossbow loaders, whether in French or English, looks like a really niche thing so I guess it was far from extremely useful ?
I appreciate you reading this far and hope you'll have useful answers :)
(And it looks like knights where I used to live didn't care much about the whole "no range kills" thing, just noticing by the way)
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