Hey guys, long time dweller, first time poster here!

I am a history major from Europe, writing a paper on internment of Japanese Americans in the USA. I could use some help finding reputable books, articles, etc. on the topic. Am having trouble finding sources i have access to.

Many thanks for your troubles helping!

Accompanying the HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales during their final battle were the destroyers Electra, Express, and HMAS Vampire. After sinking the two capital ships, why didn't the Japanese 'finish the job' and sink the remaining destroyers as well to annilate Force Z completely?

I would like to learn more about ancient history, specifically about roman and greek history, specifically their military histories and similar things. I am looking for basically a starting point, as far as books go. I have been thinking of getting history of the peloponnesean war

Id appreciate any advice

Are there common explanations of music's spiritual effect?

From geopolitical point of view it made perfect sense, had soviets reached western Norway they would have finally achieved centuries old Russian dream of having warm water port and undisturbed access to oceans.

But soviets didn't do much to advance swiftly there and abandoned captured territory in Finnmark easily, why ?

While a compelling story, it seems like a relatively minor squabble. What brought the Hatfield-McCoy feud into the public consciousness and made it survive as the best known family feud?

I am well versed in the looting of Europe's art and antiquities during occupation by German forces but what happened on German soil once the battle came to the homefront?

I imagine that early on the people in the colonies sounded just like their British counterparts. But when did the transition happen for Americans to sound the way they do now? And why? Did the founding fathers sound American or British?

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The question of which presidents were the "greatest" depends on who you ask, however, these names often come up (among others):

• Abraham Lincoln
• George Washington
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Harry S. Truman
• Woodrow Wilson
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• James K. Polk
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Andrew Jackson
• James Madison
• Thomas Jefferson

Did the public perceive any of these presidents as being among the "greatest" while they were still in office, or did this only become clear years later?

I'm curious because I was wondering whether we could even tell if a current president should be considered among the greatest, or if such designations can only be made in retrospect.

After the American and French Revolutions, how did England avoid a similar fate during this time when anti-monarchy and pro-republican sentiment rose to become ideal?

If a wave of soldiers attack the opposing trench but fail to reach it, what happens to the survivors of the attacking forces? Do they return to the trench, and if so, do they remain on rotation?

Often , I hear "Ottoman Turks" and Turks being associated with the Ottoman Empire but were there other groups of people who were proud to be "Ottomans"? or "Ottomanic"?. Since, back then, during the Roman Era, a lot of people identified as Romans and were proud to be Romans. Was that the same case for people under the Ottoman Empire? were people proud to be Ottomans?

This question also goes for the Persian Empire. Were people proud to be Persians?

Hello! I'm a current M.A. in History candidate who is focusing his research on medieval Scandinavia. A question popped into my head a few days ago and I've scoured the internet and all of the books I own trying to find an answer for it.

Essentially, we know that the Vikings interacted with numerous cultures that were foreign to them beginning in the late 8th century and did so virtually until the advent of Christianity ca. 1000. Is there any record of the Vikings transmitting diseases to any of these cultures?

I'm thinking in terms of the Kievan Rus' interactions with the 'Abbasid Caliphate, the Greenlanders interactions with the First Nations peoples of North America, and the Danish/Norwegian interaction with the Anglo-Saxon, Irish, and Scots peoples.

Thanks for reading this. I am eager to hear any theories as well as concrete examples. Thanks again!

I'm definitely going to live in the UK in a few months, which is where I'm from (currently an expat). I'd really like to do Ancient History, but don't know where to start. The links I've been pointed to are "don't do it, don't even consider it".

Edit: I understand how essential this is to separate the sub from politics, but the '20 year' limit here kinda restricts the scope of the discussion. So additionally, are there really any good examples of failed US reconstruction anywhere >20 years ago, and if so why did they fail in comparison?

Unless I'm mistaken, Rome was still maintained the facade of a Republic while Augustus was emperor. If that's the case, when did Rome officially transition from a Republic into an Empire?

For example, why is Standing Bear more commonly known as Standing Bear instead of the phonetic spelling Macunajin? It seems other non-English names always use the phonetic spelling instead of literal meanings. Are Native Americans the sole exception?

I've read that the Spanish didn't use guns very often during the Aztec conquest and that they were forced to retreat in their attempt to attack Tenochtitlan, so I was wondering if there are any examples of Aztec weapons being effective during a battle against the Spanish. Are there records of their clubs, lances, bows and arrows, etc. being effective? The most that I've been able to find is that one weapon called the Mācuahuitl could decapitate a horse with one blow. Did the Spanish make any references to these weapons in their diaries/books?

My history teacher told us the Greeks and Romans already invented the steam engine, hundreds of years before the Industrial Revolution - Which I take to mean the "Aeolipile"

If so, why did the Romans not have trains across their land? To what degree did they utilize it?