I am looking for a general overview of labor movements in United States History to serve as a springboard to further inquiry. Because I am not relying on it as my sole source I do not mind a more bias recount or slant as long as it is still reasonable. I also realize the subject may too broad/varied that a good overview book may not exist. Thank you for your time!
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I saw this on a random search on Yahoo Answers.
Indeed I was inspired to read not only Rose of versailles but also Les Miserables and The Scarlet Pimpernel after the above links and got hooked enough to research the French Revolution. There is something notable in that Rose of Versaille's portrayal turned out to be the spot on deal as I learned that almost everything in the above question turned out to be accurate not only in the manga but also in the real life events.
On top of that even the various prequels and sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel described the rabble armies of the Revolution as using musket rifles in their battles and engaging in melee with SWORDS, heavy axes, military knives, BAYONETS, and even shooting pistols in close quarter combat. Not the peasants weapons but the civilians riots were using military grade weapons when they clashed with soldiers in hand-to-hand. ON top of that the novels described many rioters having been in the militia or being war veterans and even untrained civilians came from hardy backgrounds that keep you in "fighting shape" for serving in the army.
But I notice that the popular view of the French Revolution is that of Les Miserables in which out of shape starving malnourished peasants including women and children getting pitchforks and other farming tools and charging at well-trained French police and soldiers. As Les Miserables portray these civilians despite being untrained in fighting and soldiering, and working in nonviolent relatively easy occupations, are able to defeat rows of disciplined soldiers firing their rifles in formation and forming walls of bayonet.
Almost all movies, TV show, comics, plays, and even most school history books outside of college level courses often repeat the portrayal in Les Miserables of angry poorly equipped rioters defeating the French army.
I am curious where did this popular view of the French Revolution being won by peasants wielding pitchforks and over-running the French military come from? I mean I was shocked how accurate Rose of Versailles was and I was not surprised when The Scarlet Pimpernel novels even pointed out many of the successful civilian riots without military aid tended to be executed by retied hard laborers with military backgrounds.
I mean its gotten to the point that the French Revolution is seen as the archetypal example of poorly armed rabble civilians without military arms winning just because they were so desperate from starving and were committed to their ideology of freedom. Every fictional portrayal of civilians succeeding in defeating a professional well-equipped army with just farming tools, baseball bats, crowbars, and other civilian tools is literally based on the famed scene from Les Miserables and the French Revolution is always touted by anarchists and ideologists as proof of how civilians don't need guns and other military tools for a revolt to succeed. Well in fact a quick reading on the subject shows not only did civilian rioters used the military armaments of the time but they even needed the army's help to succeed.
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If the Allies did not bomb German cities, would the Allies still win? If there was no bombing, how much longer would the war take?
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HBO's TV show Rome portrays Servilia as the mistress of Julius Caesar and the two of them as deeply in love with each other at first. However, Caesar breaks off the relationship, causing Servilia's love to turn to hatred. She urges her son Brutus to kill Caesar and helps organize his assassination.
Is any of this rooted in historical accuracy? What was the real relationship between Caesar and Servilia? How did she feel about the fact that her son helped kill him?
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I am an incoming freshman and will be majoring in History. I am having second thoughts though because I don't know what I can do with a degree in History. Thoughts?
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I was watching the movie Amadeus, which I understand is not the most historically accurate movie, and was just curious if someone who attempted to kill themselves would be forcibly institutionalized in the same way we do now. Was suicide considered symptomatic of mental illness or just a mortal sin?
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You see people building the Hoover Dam in pretty much full suits. Wouldn't that overheat the workers after a point and make them less effective?
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This is a paper I came across a few years ago, and I was wondering what the reaction to it as been from historians:
Introduction:
William Smellie MD (1697–1763) and William Hunter MD (1718–1783) are accepted as fathers of the obstetrics profession. In the 18th century they both produced highly detailed anatomical atlases of the pregnant female body, praised as masterpieces of medical art. To date, their atlases have been accepted without question as to the source and legitimacy of the subjects they dissected. This paper addresses the legitimacy of their subjects. It demonstrates a prima facie case showing Smellie and Hunter were responsible for a series of 18thcentury ‘burking’ murders of pregnant women, with a death total greater than the combined murders committed by the famous 19th-century murderers, Burke and Hare, and Jack the Ripper. As a result, the role of Smellie and Hunter in the history of obstetric medicine needs to be reassessed.
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When did the first restaurants appear in Europe and when did it becomes popular to eat out instead of at home or dinner parties?
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I'm trying to figure out if there was freedoms that the general Joe Public enjoy today that was suppressed in Nazi Germany. I'm not talking about the ability to organize political action groups. You'd be shut down hard fast trying to do that, but lets face it; only a small percentage of us do that.
I'm talking about the regular working stiff who do some shopping then go home and watch TV (or radio at the time).
There was of course the "ban" of listening to foreign radio, but I can't find that people was sanctioned for this alone.
And as depressingly few listen to foreign TV/Radio/News/podcast or read foreign newspapers or web sites, the majority would really miss it.
I'm talking about something a majority would miss.
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I was watching Band of Brothers last night and I noticed the soldiers carried a wide variety of weapons: M1s, carbines, Thompsons, Grease Guns, BARs. Was there a strategy behind this? When did the Army decide to standardize weapons systems?
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Forgive me if I misunderstand any concepts, I'm still new to this part of history. As the title states, I'm curious why Christianity finally converted Rome when Rome had been officially Roman polytheistic throughout its history, even during times of strong exposure to many different religions.
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I recently found out about the Battle of Diamond Rock in 1805 and it is IMO one of the most unique naval battles in the Age of Sail. Anyways, in this illustration it shows the HMS Centaur and what seems to be a few other rowboats hauling up a cannon by Diamond Rock's summit by hauling it up to the summit while it's suspended by a cable lashed to the base of a ship's mainmast.
Did crewmembers have to get up on top of the summit from a safer and more gently sloping point to first throw the cable down so it could be lashed to the mainmast's base? Were the rowboats in the picture there for extra support? What did they attach the cable on the summit to? (a boulder, tree?).
I've never heard of this method of fortifying a place during the Age of Sail, and I'm not sure if this event is only unique to Diamond Rock.
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I recently learned about "Boston marriages" that occurred frequently a few hundred years ago, in which women would live together and often had romantic relationships, which were not looked down upon until the Victorian Era, when many historians erased evidence of these same-sex relationships.
This reminds me of other tales I've heard of same-sex relationships, which were common in Ancient Greece as well as other ancient societies. I also haven't really seen any definitive stories of violence against people in same-sex marriages until recent years--at the same time, I haven't heard of much violence or even explicit legal discrimination against homosexuals/bisexuals/etc. until the 20th century, either.
My question is: Although same-sex relationships are prohibited in the Bible, was it not really considered a "big deal" before the Victorian Era, or is it really something that has been consistently looked down upon since the birth of Christ?
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India Pakistan was divided based on the population centres of Hindus and Muslims. A lot of the problems with modern African nations is due to tribes who have histroically not gotten along being put into the same nation state (i.e Sudan, Rwanda). Why didn't they use the same method to create tribe-specific nation states as they did on the Indian subcontinent?
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When I was a kid, my parents told us to stay away from the house until dinner time. They didn't worry where we went or what we did as long as we didn't "get in trouble." We were "out playing." This was normal everywhere. (It was a long time ago. Not many Redditors are older than me.)
Now, parents who raise their children this way -- it's called "free-range parenting" -- actually get investigated or prosecuted for neglecting their children. As far as I can tell, these days kids either stay indoors, or engage in "supervised activities," like piano lessons, youth soccer, gymnastics, and so on. Parents feel, strongly, that unsupervised play is "unsafe" for children of any age. I started to notice this in the early 1980s, as I recall. It's much stronger now. And yet, crime rates are much lower than they were in the 1980s. Most parents seem more worried about abduction and sexual abuse than anything else.
How did this immense social change happen? And when? And why? Someone must have studied it carefully.
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Also, how does the historian's use of the word differ from that of the average Joe?
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