Hi All,

Can anyone please recommend some good / neutral sources to learn about the Indian Rebellion of 1857 please?

Google reveals a lot of results however not sure what to go for.

Help would be appreciated. Thanks

When I was reading about bypassed garrisons, the only real details I could find were about how their offensive capabilities were dealt with (usually with airpower) and how they were left to rot afterwards. Sometimes there were attempts to resupply them, but it seems, overall, that the Japanese high command either didn't care or wasn't able to help.

With that in mind, what exactly was life like for the soldiers stranded on these islands? Also, how were they dealt with after the war?

Hello historians! My friend had me ask about a "clan symbol" for her family's Viking clan, but it turned out to be completely unrelated. She was wondering if someone could help her track it down? Are they even real?

Her family origin is Norwegian with the last name Johnson (or Jonston, Jonnson or other spellings). I realize this is a really common name and I'm not sure if anyone could help, but I'd appreciate it if anyone tried!

Or were the two things mostly unrelated?

I'm guessing whatever answer I'll get is going to be "both" or "a mix", because history is rarely so simple, but if so, is it possible to say that it's more one than the other? Is this something Imperial/Colonial historians argue about, and if so, what are the main arguments?

I used to see comments making fun of a 6 million number often times on the internet, one just has to look at Youtube comment section and it isnt hard to find them, so some time ago I decided to look what that was about and I read that apparently there were only 500,000 Jews living in Nazi Germany, and even if you were to count all the territories that Germany conquered that number would not even make up for half of the alleged victims.

So my question is, are these numbers true? If not, what were the real numbers of Jews living there, and can 6 million number be substantiated, especially given the case that many people do manage to flee the persecution when it is headed their way.

(I asked this same question on r/history but received some copy/paste answer which didnt really answer what I asked, so I am asking the same exact thing here.)

I was watching some streamers play Blackwake, an Age of Sail naval combat game earlier today, and noticed that people stationed below deck had difficulty discerning which side to go to when, for example, they heard an order to man the cannon on port side.

In the past, were the interior of ships marked so the crew could quickly easily find which side was being referred to?

Shameless /r/BlackwakeGame plug

Hi /r/askhistorians!

I was wondering if it was possible to write new documents in Cuneiform. obviously it's vocabulary is limited, but would it be possible to pull from a vocabulary to craft new 'sentences' or phrases in Cuneiform, similar to the way we can with Hieroglyphic and Latin?

Castle or huge castle like structures? Even after America was discovered by the Europeans, were there any castles built?

I'm sure the answer will be different from different reasons, but was there a period of time when the power of Latin waned drastically? Is there a particular reason French then succeeded Latin as the language of diplomacy?

How is it that the kingdom/province/country never seemed to be able to contend with other European powers?

I want to learn more about what was going on at the time in Jerusalem while the Dome of the Rock was being completed. (691CE) I want to know what was going on Socially, diplomatically, and economically most of all, as these are very difficult things to figure out on the internet. I have an understanding of the basics but from there I don't know where to go. If anyone could give me a basic understanding, any facts, or point me in the right direction on the internet it would be much appreciated. Any cultural context of the time is helpful.

I am curious as to what any of the Founding Fathers would have said regarding their detractors, not only based on their revolutionary ideas, but also as politicians and human beings. This is a question not about the intentions of the second amendment's principles, but rather in its concrete practice.

Did they attack not only those remarks but also their right to say them? Or did they take a different attitude, perhaps similar to the nature of the Evelyn Hall quote of "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."?

Thank you!

When the Portuguese and British colonies in the Americas became independent they stayed united or united after independence, with the 13 British colonies uniting and forming the USA and the Portugese colony in South America becoming the independent Empire of Brazil. This did not happen however when the Spanish colonies achieved independence, with the Spanish Americas dissolving into a number of different states. Why did this happen? Also was there any attempt to unite the different states, and if not why was there no such attempt?

Hello, first year graduate PhD student here, and historical jargon in articles and books are driving me crazy. If I have to be 'informed' by the 'nuance' of Hofstadter and Focault's 'dichotomy' one more time...you get the picture. What other jargon/theoretical words/namedrops grind your gears?

I took interest in the caricatures of "Kladderadatsch" and it stroke me that it seemed (even if quite politically biased, depending on the period) still quite satirical. But after one point, the drawings are basically a light hearted "Der Stürmer". Was there a clear cut, a direct take over from the nazi party or maybe just coincidence?

Please apologize for eventual mistakes: english is not my first language.