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Can you recommend me the sources about Willy Brandt? I write an essay which states that Mr Brandt was making symbolic gestures in politics and he was inspiring for them too.

By now, I have ofc Warschauer Kneefall and Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner". Subject seems to be very interesting and... I'm stuck. Hilfe!

I posted this originally as a comment in r/History 's silly questions thread but they said it's more suited to being posted here:

I'm here as a biologist, with a question not about history itself but about those who study history. What is the job of a historian like, particularly in academia? As an academic scientist our publications tend to be relatively short articles in journals as a way to share results of an experiment or project, or as a literature review. What is the nature of the publications (or whatever the output may be) coming out of academia for historians? Does it tend to be more in the form of books or do you have a similar article based system? What is the process a historian goes through to acquire the information they are going to publish?

So i am currently working on an assignment on my late grandfather. He was part of the Norwegian legion and he fought in Narva Estonia. As far as i know. He escaped through Finland into Norway. But he did so before the war ended, did he maybe desert the German army? How was the general Narva Estonia front for both Germans and Russians? I feel this is a fairly overlooked part of the war so i am grateful in advance for all and any answers. I will try to answer any and all questions if my question was a bit vague

In occupied Germany how did the to what extent did the Occupiers allow memorials commemorating fallen Nazi soldiers, and what form did these memorials take?

Do we know anything about the reaction within the kingdom back home? Was this kind of thing expected and encouraged? For dukes to just unilaterally set themselves up as sovereigns of foreign lands? Did the king of Francia at any point try to say "Wait a minute, England should be mine, since you're just my duke?"

At the time, was his retirement most likely viewed as a sincere, "now the Republic has a strong foundation on which to stand, we can return to the rule of law," or an insincere, "I'm bored with this, time to go kick it in my country estate."

We've all heard stories of wild and brave escapes past the Berlin Wall out of East Germany, but did anybody ever flee the other direction?

Question came to me when reading about the policy of pals battalions. What struck me was that obviously a lot of these conscripts would have been poor and ordinarily unable to afford a passport. Did governments put in place a scheme were visas/passports for their soldiers or when you traveled with the armed forces, did it just not matter?

I had Britain in mind when asking this and the competition between Irish and Roman schools of Christianity, but I've heard mention, with no sources, of Gallic, Burgundian, and Egyptian schools as well. How many schools were there, and what were the differences between them?

Hello people,

I am currently researching on factors that benefitted or even made possible the quick rise of the Qin dynasty and unision of China, and factors that led to the quick fall of it afterwards. If somebody with knowledge regarding that could share a quick summary, point me in right direction, or just give me some tips I would be most grateful.

Kind regards.

Also: A Chinese friend recommended a older text, but since I couldn't find a translation and my ancient Chinese is still beginner level I forgot the name. I think it was something like 亲过论 (Qin guo lun)

The Roman culture was largely influenced by the Ancient Greeks, particularly in art and religion. However what did their culture look like before they began interacting with and eventually conquered the Greeks?

This applies to museums, etc. as well as schools and colleges.

I am aware that institutions will try to employ people whose views align with theirs, so particularly egregious examples are unlikely, but I can't help wondering how many times an outdated textbook is still in use and teachers are asked to follow that for 'ease' or 'lack of confusion'.

Similarly, are there instances where the decision makers are not up to date on the latest developments in the field and insist on sticking to what they learnt 20-30 years ago.

How are these issues typically dealt with?

The first stone tool made by humanoid apes is two million years old. But approx 13'000 years ago when agriculture were developed, Homo sapiens were still in the Neolithic age, or late stone age. Obviously the difference between these two states of being are enormous, yet in popular mind it's still referred to as "stone age". How come? And what can we do to spread the knowledge about early human development?

I just watched the latest Adam Curtis documentary, HyperNormalization, in which he quotes the fact that in the late 80s neither the journalists nor the academics or the intelligence community as an evidence that observers were less and less in touch with objective reality.

How true is it?