Good day fellow Reddit users. First of all, my apologies for the upcoming language issues, English is not my first language.

I am looking for some help with data collection for my upcoming doctoral dissertation. In my dissertation I am examining whether (and if so, how?) high school history education in four different countries-Finland, Germany, China and the US-addresses the question of history politics (i.e. the theoretical insight that there is a strong link between history and politics, and for this reason, the interpretations of history can be, and often have been, manipulated for political purposes). My comparisons are not only limited to space (that is, I am not only doing comparisons between countries), but I am also hoping to look at how history education in the aforementioned counties has evolved over the years regarding the topic at hand. Drawing on these findings, I will try to investigate whether a convergence of educational policies is taking place on a global scale. As primary research material I will be using high school curricula and text books from the aforementioned countries from ca. 1985 onwards.

Now I am looking for some help with the collection of the American case study research material. As the American education system, like the US political system in general, is very decentralized, I will have to choose a locality which I will focus on. As I will be traveling to Atlanta, Georgia in early March to attend a conference, I think because of budgetary issues it would be wise of me to gather the American case study material around Atlanta area during my trip (I would of course need to prolong my stay…) First I need to find out a few things:

1. I’ve asked this already before, but I am asking it once more because the situation seems rather complex: Which history textbook(s) are/have been used in high schools in the Atlanta area over the years? Who decides them? A city school board or individual schools? What about the curricula (that is, the goals and statements of purpose regarding history education)?

2. How can I get my hands on the newest history/social science textbooks used in the area? I presume they are commercially available?

3. How can I get my hands on history/social science textbooks used earlier (~1985 onwards)? Do public libraries have them, or should I contact university libraries for example? 4) Who do you think are the persons/institutions I should contact over these issues in the States/Georgia/Atlanta? Who knows about these issues and could help me forward?

To express my gratitude towards anyone willing to help me, I would of course be more than happy to present something related to history education or education in general in Finland for example at schools, researchers’ workshops etc.

Around the time of the revolution it's probably safe to say that Lenin and the rest of the leadership did believe in communism, but later on especially after Stalin, did this change a lot?

Also, when Gorbachev pushed his reforms was he still doing to promote communism or was he trying to move away from communism?

Hello all,

I'm currently writing a short story set in the Warsaw District of Poland in 1942 and was just a little unsure on this legal grey area- if a non-Jew was aiding a fugitive Jew by hiding them in their home, but then betrayed that Jew by handing them over to the Nazis, would they have been rewarded for coming forward or killed for harbouring them in the first place? Did the Nazis offer any special rewards or incentives for people like this? Thank you!

The land was sold for $15M, but was that transferred as gold, or promise of gold? How was the money transported? How long did it take to make the transaction finalized such that Napoleon could spend his newly earned cash?

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In the thread about the decline of whale oil usage it is mentioned that taxes on alcohol used for illumination made it not competitive with coal oil and petroleum products. Were these taxes created in a direct effort to bolster the burgeoning petroleum industry?

Mao and Kim Il Sung seemed to have a good relationship and both developed strong cults of personality. China was closed off to Westerners from the 1950s to 1970s and only allowed select tour groups in, like North Korea today. How similar is daily life and society in North Korea to China under Mao?

However, North Korea seems to be more threatening to the world than Communist China ever was. Did most Americans view Mao's China negatively, when compared to Kim Il Sung or Kim Jong Un?

In the Middle-Ages and later, there were a tradition of duelling for honour. Did Romans in any point in their history have such a tradition?

Reading Antonia Fraser's bio of Marie Antoinette and having trouble wrapping my head around how things worked at Versailles.

It says that the Austrian ambassador tried to have Marie Antoinette crowned alongside Louis XVI in 1775 but was rebuffed and that "[t]he burgeoning pregnancy of the Comtesse d'Artois (Louis' younger brother's wife)... emphasized the tenuous nature of Marie Antoinette's claim." She already seems to be referred to as "the Queen" by contemporaries at this point and she was married to Louis XVI prior to his accession at the death of his grandfather, Louis XVI. She may get crowned later but that hadn't happened by the end of the chapter.

So, what's the significance of being married to the king but not crowned? Was she not actually Queen?

I've been going through some primary sources and see the term "Bohemians" come up a lot to describe recent immigrates. Who did "Bohemains" most often describe? Was it Germans? Or Czechs? If Germans, was it a general term for Germans even if they weren't from Bohemia?

By this I mean the people from the Latium/Rome

So as we know, Bolshevik means "the majority" and Menshevik means "the minority" in Russian.

However, prior to the October Revolution where the Bolsheviks basically took over the country, the Mensheviks had a large popular stance due to it following the traditional Marxist ideology against the bourgeois. **(Am I right here? If not, what exactly was the principle behind the Mensheviks?)

So why were they called "the majority" if the Bolsheviks didn't have the majority of popular support in the first place? (Weren't they just people who supported Leninism/proletariat dictatorship? If not what was their ideology?)

Thanks!

everyone always uses Hitler as a reference point for pure evil, but what did people use before that?

like if i was a journalist in the 1890s and wanted to criticize a politician, who would i compare them to?

Shortly after white supremacists from 2014 show up with AK47s to give him, I’m guessing that’s where fictional elements start

I was reading about Beowulf and Wiglaf's battle with the dragon and got to wondering if the audience of Beowulf would consider such creatures to be real. I've never really been clear on the degree to which medieval europeans considered dragons to be real creatures that you might stumble upon while out cutting wood or something. Could anyone comment?

From what I understand, all royalty has to start somewhere, through some chain of birth. Seeing as he was the first King of Hungary, how did the pope decide on him to be king? What precedent let him be king as opposed to someone else?

I'm hoping through understanding this I may have a look into what legitimized monarchy for so many societies, especially in Europe.

I was just reading this book called "Legions of Rome" and in the book it describes how the Roman military in Vegetius' own words "Became soft". It talks about how the soldiers began to despise wearing armor, and the change in the Legionary culture to something "not roman" contributed to the downfall of the legion, which ultimately contributed to the downfall of Rome. So, Looking back, what decisions were made that contributed to the collapse of the Roman Empire?

EDIT: Yes there were many things, but what were the biggest that we know of.