Basically what I mean is that there was a time when wars were often fought over land. What makes that OK, and for example Russia invading Crimea a huge deal?

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I realize there probably aren't any polls, but do we have good estimates?

I was just watching a documentary on Auschwitz and I was asking myself why on earth anyone would do such horrendous things to fellow humans, and then it struck me that it didn't even seem to make sense practically, let alone ethically.

I'm pretty familiar with the broad strokes of Western society from the Greeks to the middle ages, by what was it like in the Pacific? What was their monarchy/ tribal chief/ leadership like? Were they mostly farmers or did they mostly hunt and gather? What was their religion like? How small was too small when finding a new island?

Just give me a general sense of normal life in the area.

I'm aware that pictures were taken as early as the 1830's, which means theoretically would mean a revolutionary war veteran could have possibly had their picture taken. If there isn't one, is there at least a picture of someone who was born before the revolution?

I hope my title is straightforward enough- recently I saw a graph of different languages' influences on the English language (eg words of Latin origin/meaning made up ~29% of modern English words, French was ~26% or so, etc). Since Rome directly occupied Britain, what was their influence on the development from Anglo-Saxon/Old English? Sources would be greatly appreciated as I have some time for additional reading!

Edit: I'd also be happy to learn what word parts are derived from Latin (eg I remember an old professor explaining that modern English cities that end in -Shire or -Caster are from the Latin word for camp). Thanks!

While I understand that this topic is borderline with "whatif" scenario, I am really curious if there were ever some sort of documents or just final goals for AXIS powers in WW2.

I mean in most movies/books/games which show alternative history where Nazi alone or all AXIS powers (Nazi and imperial Japan alongside with Italy and other smaller allies (Slovakia, Hungary and such)) win the war, they are portrait as rulers of whole world.

But from what I understant this (world domination) wasnt actually goal for Nazis or Japan -both countrys want just get more "space" and resoucures for their people.

So was there any document/plan when and where they stop if they keep winning? Like after taking out Soviets and Britain lets just stop and make peace with USA and consolide our big Reich?

Hi /r/AH,

I'm been getting super interested in Carl Jung's ideas lately. Fortunately, my personal interests of psychoanalysis have intersected with a class on the history of psychiatry + psychoanalysis in school. Our final assignment is writing a history paper on something relevant to our course and interest. I'm interested in writing about Jung. Most interesting to me is his study in religion and alchemy to power his intellectual ideas. My TA advised me to look up the methods of intellectual history, as she felt this was most suited for my inquiry. I've done a cursory search, but still not exactly what intellectual history is.

For studying Jung and his epistemological influences, is intellectual history an apt reporting method? I'm a complete freshman in history — what might I find useful in resources to help write a good paper?

I'm currently extremely interested in the battle of verdun (one of my favorite battlefield 1 maps). While reading about the battle online it is easy to conclude that France made the right decision to defend verdun despite the countless deaths. Due to morale and the fact that war had already started, and there was no way to stop the Germans without fighting other than surrendering. However, I cant help but think that it was a bad idea for France to defend Verdun. Could you helpful historians give me some information, arguments, or recources(books, articles, etc) that would make defending Verduin seam like a big blunder by the french high command. THanks in Advance :)

I was thinking that somewhere like Lithuania or Prussia might be the likeliest candidate, but I haven't been able to find anything.

And by why I mean what was the inspiration behind it?

I have heard too much of the american one.

I wonder, did they have real stories of g.i.'s as monsters or did they say nice things?

when i was in germany, a german that grew up during the bombing in dresden said that he remembers seeing american fighters strafing civilians in the parks that weren't burning. I can no longer see the americans as some kind of pure force of good in world war 2 but i'm curious I guess about the historical american character with eisenhower etc compared to now. Thanks if you can inform me some.

After a massive campaign the Swedish people collectively through donations funded the construction of three warships.

Largest of this was the HMS Sverige commissioned 1915.

• what capability did these warships have in relation to contemporary warships?

• what was the Swedish naval branch view on the strategic needs and overall assessments of the Baltic Sea area pre and during ww1?

• what threat and capability did the Swedish navy posses in the era of the First World War for her own safety and to asses power in the Baltic?

• what were the view of first most her neighbors but also Europe's view of Swedish naval strength? Was it planned for? Was it assessed?

I know about Ravi Shankar and The Beatles connection, but I wonder how much there is before that or who else contributed to sitar being the default "tripping" sound.

I'm from New England and schooners (along with other aspects of fishing/sailing/maritime history) featured prominently in discussions of local history. But why was the schooner specifically so popular and successful in this region as opposed to other types of ships?

Hello historians,

I've watched and been a big fan of the FX series, The Americans as well as the SundanceTV show Deutschland 83. I was wondering if anyone could recommend some good spy books either from World War II or the Cold War (and Vietnam, Korea, etc...)

Thank you!