I feel as though the statement saying war was "romanticized" before WWI, allowing more and more parties to get involved and more and more deaths to occur, is a huge over simplification of how the war got started.

Is it true for everyone that they were inspired about going to war, including the average, lower class prescribed citizens? How did everyone not see through all this bullshit?

What was the genesis of this thought, and how much propaganda was involved with it? What sort of economics incentives were at play to push this idea of romanticism? How was the suffering and catastrophe of modern warfare against pre-industrial revolution/horseback tactics not obvious to all parties involved? SO MANY QUESTIONS!

I know that he divorced her after the Bona Dea scandal, saying that his wife should be above suspicion. I'm wondering if we know of anything about her after this. Did she get her full dowery back? Did she remarry? Did she get killed because of some political hoopla?

I saw on Wikipedia that they were partially destroyed by the British in the 19th century, but why was such an extensive defensive fortification already in place?

Hey folks!

As the title says, I'm interested in learning about the social and economic opportunities free black families had in the pre-war South. While Southern society was incredibly oppressive for people of colour, and indeed built on the institution of racialised slavery, my limited understanding is that some opportunities for prosperity and power did exist. Where and how were free black families able to distinguish themselves throughout this period?

Thanks!

Also why is Sichuan considered more Chinese today than Tibet when they became part of the Chinese empire at roughly the same time?

All the TIL referred to was a wiki of a gun used by these skeet shooters.

Something similar that comes to mind here is Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda and his unauthorized Don Quixote sequel. The story, as I understand it, is that the book took hold too quickly for Cervantes to issue any type of effective dismissal and he had to address the Avellaneda text in his own Part 2 in a type of meta criticism.

Now, I'm not too sure of the accuracy of that story. I heard it on Radiolab I think and haven't read anything else about it. But, in a way, it illustrates what I'm asking.

Edit: Proof-reading is good.

I heard today in 'The History of Rome' podcast by Mike Duncan, some rather interesting bits about common Roman life, including that the ancient Romans were very likely more wine-conscience that we are today, and that there were vintage years that wealthy Romans would focus on. Also, he described wine as a sort of concentrate that you added water to to become drinkable (though some apparently went straight-up). Anyways, I am wondering how he knew this, what the sources say, and do we know specifically which years were considered 'vintage' by the Romans? Can we confirm vintage through other, non-historical means (geology for example)?

In an unrelated work, Professor Norman Cigar briefly mentions that Jewish survivors of Nazi camps incarcerated German civilians in concentration camps in 1945. He cited John Sacks' book, "An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945". The comments on amazon.com seem to imply that there is some controversy to this work. Can anyone here comment on it?

what happened in the legal sense I mean, obviously in the practical sense your house might get bombed

Guys, this year I want to learn about history at a Historian like level. What do you guys recommend?

Should I go chronologically? Focus on a specific era? Who are the best historians?

I've seen posted around reddit a few different recordings of what ancient music sounded like from various regions, using simplified musical notation. Is this representational of commonly accessable music or is it more formal?

I have noticed that aristocratic music in more recent history has some tendency to be slower, which seems in common with much of the recorded attempts to recreate these ancient tunes. If we have any indication of what folk music at these times sounded, would it also have a slower tempo, or would it have been more lively?

If possible, I'd also like to search for my grandfather's history as a merchant marine in the Pacific theater. Thanks in advance.

In Turkey, we take religious education as a program called "Culture of Religion and Knowledge of Ethics". Today, When we were in class, teacher said that Prophet believed some kind of pure Abrahamic religion called "Hanif", unlike most of Meccans who were Christian, Jewish or Pagan. I've never heard such a religion and some of my classmates like me claimed that there was no such a religion. So after a loud discussion in class, I googled it and I read a article about the religion of Quraysh tribe. The article claims that even though most of the Quraysh members were Pagan, there were Christians and Jews in the tribe and Mohammad was a Jew before his prophecy. I don't think that is true (Since there are many verses in Quran that contradicts Tanakh) but I have also doubts about "Hanif" religion. Could that be an invention that was created by Arab historians who wanted to hide Mohammad's past ?