I'm writing my Master's thesis on the journal, but so far my historiography is a little light, with only two authors (Robert Vitalis and Jessica Blatt) and I can't for the life of me seem to locate anything else that discusses the journal itself in any great depth. Any pointers would be much appreciated.

I apologise if I have posted this in the wrong subreddit, but I am getting desperate.

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(I'm asking this question for a novel I'm writing, and I checked the rules and don't seem to see anything about asking specific questions for novels, but please let me know where else I should go!)

A young American man (22) needs to get from Ajaccio, Corsica to Columbus, Ohio. For the purposes of this question, he can have any papers you like and he has a patron with effectively unlimited wealth and who can also call in some high-level connections. Obviously, the patron would prefer not to have to spend his money if he doesn't have to.

• Would it be possible to get passage between the two locations? Would it be easy? Would he need to pull strings to get put as crew on some other boat, or would it just be a matter of buying a ticket and showing up?

• What would the craft be like? Would it be possible to get passage on some sort of passenger aircraft? The wikipedia article for commercial aviation says that it basically started after WW2 left a bunch of surplus aircraft around the place, so I'm thinking we're probably looking at a boat.

• How long would the journey take? How dangerous would it be?

• Ohio is landlocked, so unless he manages to get a direct flight, he's going to need to travel over land in the USA. Which port is he likely to enter, and how is he going to travel from there to Columbus? (Train, taxi, bus?)

Note: The traveller is a deserter from the American army, so he'd like to avoid any sort of military or American vessel for obvious reasons. Let's say it's January 1945, if you want a date.

EDIT: Also, could he have taken a dog with him?

Thanks in advance!

I recently learned that the Roman Republic existed from around 509 BCE until 27 BCE. Being a fan of Socrates and Plato's writings, I saw that this timeline overlapped the writing of Plato's Republic. Because of how timeless the book is, I never really considered what the historical context of the book may have been.

I always thought it would be interesting to see the outcome of a country trying to implement Plato's Republic. So I was just wondering, how much did the two influence each other, or if there were any interesting correlations known to historians? Were Plato's writings known to have any influence on Roman policy? Or did Socrates take his ideas from practices in place in the Roman republic. Were Socrates and Plato essentially promoting Rome over the Athens democracy? Would Socrates even consider Rome a 'true' republic?

Wouldn't they have different strategies for when the planes were used only for spying as opposed to when they were used for fighting. How did they differ?

I'm reading his part of the Heimskringla right now, and while it's very entertaining, I can't help but feel like it's more of a story told for entertainment than for the purpose of recording what actually happened.

The author seems to be mashing together stories he has heard personally, as well as bits and pieces of other works, but despite the fact that many of these anecdotes are improbable, he makes little effort to try to talk about where they come from, or how accurate they are.

While it's a great piece of literature, one of the most enjoyable medieval primary sources I've ever read, I don't trust it at all. I'm sure that, using Byzantine sources, it's possible to produce a more accurate story of his life in exile. Can someone enlighten me on what that story was, and where I can find more info about it?

I remember reading, about a year ago, a passage that claimed that the US knew Japan was going to surrender but decide to drop the nuclear bombs anyway.In any case, I looked for some evidence supporting the claim and found two books, one by Gar Alperovitz, "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb" which is a 900 page tome, which apparently supports the thesis, and one by R. J. Maddox, "Hiroshima in History" which is about 225 pages long, and from what I can gather, written as a response to Alperovitz book.I tried to find a review that compared both as objectively as possible, bu there were none. Can anybody here help me out to figure out which historical narrative is true?

Hi all, lurker and first-time poster.

I'm a college student whose majors rarely have anything to do with history (except for where/what the Renaissance and Enlightenment did), but recently, I've become fascinated with Mesoamerican cultures, especially the Inca civilization, and to a lesser extent, the Aztecs (or Mexica, I'm not clear on which is more accurate to describe what the Spanish took over from Moctezuma II) and Maya. I've spent the last few weeks scouring Wikipedia and other easy online sources looking to learn more about them, but I was wondering if anyone here could direct me to any specific books/articles that are of particular pertinence to learning about and understanding these cultures.

I've been on a mission to learn about all the parts of history that I never learned in school (I live in the Southern US and most of what I've learned, even in college, has been obviously Euro-centric), so anything here helps! Thanks in advance!

Edit: Clarified that I have two majors, English and Philosophy. I've focused on literature around the Commonwealth for my English degree and ethics for my Philosophy degree, so I haven't had the opportunity to learn about other stuff outside of electives.

A family story tells that a close family member (who I met before she died but didn't hear this until after her death) was basically forced, as a teen, to marry a business associate of her father's. The groom was about nine years older than she was. This story has some fuzzy spots, as I'm not sure how the two men's businesses were related, or what kind of business the younger man would have been in that would make the father think that marrying his young daughter off to him would benefit him financially. How common or uncommon would an arranged marriage have been in the US, around 1930, among the working class or middle class? Would this have been likely to be accepted by the community?

What is the difference between different titles such as count/duke/earl/landgrave/margrave/baron/lord/archduke/castellan?

He claims they feasted daily. Is this an exaggeration? Is it corraborated?

Well, technically the second time, but I only ever skimmed it once in high school for a reading project. I can barely remember a thing, besides it being a political allegory.

A few pages into the preface and I'm getting a glimpse at how thoroughly the events and characters mirror the political state of our world at the time it was written. However, it has been a while since I have had a history class, and my knowledge of the Soviet Union, Leon Trotsky/Stalin, and socialism (also communism) of this time is very scant. Nor am I knowledgeable about Orwell's personal beliefs at the time either.

For those of you who have read the book, what should I know about this time period to get the most out of this book? I'm fairly confident I'd enjoy it without understanding the references. However, I love the connections between the book and the history, and I want to develop an understanding of both as I read.

I also posted this in r/books but have decided to try here as well. Thank you all :)

I recently found out about the Rosicrucian Manifestos and was wondering if anyone had any good sources I should look into to get more information on them.

I'm reading Iron Kingdom and didn't fully grasp exactly what the causes were for that time to be tumultuous