I'm talking about murderers, Rapists, Traitors, Cowards, Incompetency, theft. How exactly did they go about doing this?

What role did Julius Caesar play in the justification for the conquest? How did he end up in the position of leading the campaign?

It is my understanding that Captains would sometimes choose to bring their wives on board in the Age of Nelson. Were any wives witness to Trafalgar? How did they fare?

What were the navy rules about captains and their wives, anyway?

(A google image search shows a nice variety of types.)
I've read an explanation that they were used as counters on a table, in the manner of an abacus. But this doesn't really fit with how these are found (by metal detectorists mostly) singly and everywhere where contemporary coins might also be found.

If so, how did it vary in different countries/cultures?

I was wondering if anyone had gave it any significance or did people not really place much importance on it being a landmark year.

'Lions led by donkeys' books?

Hi Reddit Historians. I want to enquire about something very important to me currently. I need some history book recommendations.

This is my last year before university, and in my history course, we've been asked to pursue a personal investigation on a chosen topic.

My question I have chosen, which I cannot change -

'Lions led by donkeys.’  How valid is this assessment of the British army on the Western Front during the First World War?'

For reference, this is a brief idea of what we need to begin with.

⁃	A handful of primary sources arguing their own viewpoints

⁃	secondary sources

⁃	interpretations arguing different sides. 

Reddit, I am asking you for book recommendations. One I can think of currently is British politician Alan Clark's book 'Donkeys' which argues that yes, they were 'lions led by donkeys' essentially. There is another historian, Brian Bond, a revisionist, who disagrees with this view and argues that the losses were not futile and that Clark's view was basically unfair.

If any of you can recommend me some books to read and use for reference, that would be incredible! I'm not asking for information regarding the topic, only recommendations.

Hope everyone is having a good Wednesday.

Given his later positions on family values, I would have thought he wouldn't necessarily have been interested in making divorce easier. Why did the Family Law Act of 1969 pass?

When I read older books I tend to find a lot of quirks in the typeset that aren't found today, little things like changing "connections" to "connexions", changing "Muslims" to "Moslems", and the inclusion of diphthongs like æ.

Was spoken English different from when these books were printed (e.g. people really pronounced it mOslEms). Or were these artifacts from their original translations that got ironed out later?

I've read that only Heracles is depicted more often on surviving Ancient Greek pottery, and virtually every mythical Hellenic hero kills or subdues Amazons at some point. The Athenian victory over the Amazons is even depicted on the Parthenon.

Is there some reason the Amazons held such a grip on Greek imagination? I can't think of an equivalent obsession in any other culture.

After reading JUDGMENT DAYS Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America I became very fond of LBJ and decided to look up a full biography.

Caro's books (I've gotten through 2, I'm guessing that the 4th book about hist presidency which I haven't gotten to yet will probably portray him more even handedly) are wonderful, super detailed things but the author seems to have a simple picture of Johnson and everything feels like another link in his argument chain. It's not that Caro hates LBJ or that he never portrays him positively but he seems to greatly accentuate his flaws. While portraying LBJ (and his crowd) as cynical and amoral it seem to me that he portrays some of the people around LBJ(like his mother, father, mentor Sam Rayburn, opponent Coke Stevenson) as saints, sanding of any of their rough edges to make him LBJ worse in comparison.

I was wondering if there's a 2nd/3rd best biography that while not being pro-LBJ propaganda accentuate more of his positive aspects, to balance me out.

And who recorded it?

I was watching a Korean Drama, when the term "chastity award" came up. I tried googling around and I learned a lot about how women were treated during this time period, but I was unable to dig up this term. It may be a translation issue, as I do not speak Korean.

It mentioned towards the beginning of episode three of "My Love From Another Star", if that helps.

What did job advertisements look like?

Edit: in the US, to clarify.

I know SS men who weren't comfortable participating in mass murder could transfer, or in some cases simply refuse. But could they actually choose to leave the SS altogether without facing persecution? How difficult was this?

And how was the information disseminated? Was it in print, over the radio, or in movies?

We will never know what Roosevelt's final decision would have been since he died early 1945 before Germany's ultimate surrender. But, is there any hints at FDR's opinions on nuclear weapons, what situations he deemed appropriate for their use, and if one of those situations was what the Allies saw themselves in in late 1945, a drawn out long war?

I came across a document during my research of a slave leaving their property to their "kind" master. It's off topic of what I was researching, but it made me curious if that was a common thing for slave owners to inherit from slaves, or if it's likely that the slave couldn't read and he drafted it up and just showed her where to sign.