I am looking for a good historiography of early US Naval history as a starting point for the design of a new course. Does anyone have any recommendations.

The topic of my seminar is gender & sexuality in the Civil War, and want to focus on 2 individual blockade runners and how these individuals experienced the Civil War. I've read Stephen Berry's All That Makes A Man, and he argues for the idea of what he calls "eclat" among Southern men and that men during the war were shocked by realisations such as death not being honroable always or their loss of individuality.

Ideally, I'd like to select two memoirs of blockade runners that detail their life before, during, and after the war to position them against the "norms" of this era.

What I'm asking /r/AskHistorians for is suggestions on personal memoirs that encompass this. Right now I am reading John Wilkinson's memoir titled The Narrative of a Blockade Runner and William Watson's The Adventures of a Blockade Runner. I'm not sold on either of these two sources as they mostly detail the war. Suggestions on possible sources to examine would be most certainly appreciated, and I can provide further explanation if possible!

Thanks!!

How is it that slaves from geographically disparate locations who wouldn't have any contact with one another come to be signing the same songs?

Do historians believe the Carthaginians, around the time of Hamilcar and Hannibal, were black/dark skinned or more fair skinned?

And if the U.S. and Nazis both had one, what possible ending would have occurred? (Alternative history, i know)

[deleted]

What was their opinion on each others presidency? Did the earlier president approve of the later president's actions and motives? Did the current president strive to uphold or move away from the former's principles?

I know a full-time job is a product of the industrial revolution, but medieval Europe too must have had periods of labour surplus, where the supply of workers exceeded the demand for them. What happened to these people? How did they make a living? Were they ever perceived as freeloaders who were a burden on society? Did some sort of welfare system exist, through the church or the merchant guilds, to take care of those who were out of work?

I'm looking for French Revolution books. I've already read the books and resources list and decided to start with a book that (surprisingly?) isn't there: Oxford History of the French Revolution, by William Doyle and then go with French Society in Revolution: 1789-1799, by David Andress. Then I came across Furet's Revolutionary France, 1770-1880 and Interpreting the French Revolution and read that they're great books.
What's the deal with Furet's work? Why isn't he mentioned here?

(mainly in Rome, Greece, Egypt, etc.. but all info is appreciated)

So I realise that peasants probably couldnt afford it since they were poor and had to take care for their farms/families etc. But did the rich guys travel somewhere like we today do ?(to see some city/temple [not because of religious reasons]/ for entertainment ...)

Discussion over in r/europe where its apparent that the British Isles are quite deforested relative to most of Europe.

A trope that was wheeled out repeatedly was that this was caused by the Royal Navy consuming trees to build ships.

I find this a bit unlikely as forests re-grow pretty quickly and in anycase, you don't chop down all the trees, even young saplings, to build ships.

I'd think it more likely that forests were cleared to make way for grazing and arable land.

What'd the truth of it?

One of the questions this past week regarding Roman technological innovation got me wondering how much of a role the almost limitless "free" labor (provided by the conquest slavery model) played in limiting Roman need for more complex agricultural machinery.

The comment by Pliny (I think?) showed a complete disinterest in the animal powered threshers. I know that in SE Asia a lot of agricultural work is still done by hand/animal power due to the cost benefit ratio not being favorable for small farmers, but in larger farms it's a necessity.

How did this not hold true for Romans, or was the lack of interest by the author just due to class snobbery?

I'll also accept detailed accounts of large scale Roman agricultural processes as an answer.

I realize this may be more of a social science question, it's certainly something I dealt with only on a very cursory basis from skimming Anderson while I was at university, but if I were to try to get a better theoretical grasp of nationalism, what should I be reading to go along with Anderson? Where should I place his views in the historiography of nationalism prior to him, and has anything major on the topic come out since?

My starting point for this is that, particularly in the part of the world I study, nationalism seems to be a lot fuzzier than what European historians write about. Particularly for some of the most powerful 20th century movements like pan-Arab nationalism and pan-Islamism.

It doesn't seem like the claim itself is revisionist, but rather the conclusions that people try and draw from it. But I really don't know, and I'd like to hear some real information.

As for my second question, are we sure all these people are real slaveowners? I don't know very much about slave laws but in order to free someone, you'd have to buy them, right? And...wouldn't you own them for a time?

Why is it Christianity was so extreme during the Middle Ages onwards? For example making laws against miscegenation between Muslim women and Crusaders so that if found out Christian men would be castrated. I mean compared to Islam in the Middle Ages it seems so insane. Or am I wrong?

The dairy is of a Nazi soldier writing about how he and other soldiers had a contest that night to see how many prisoners they could kill with a knife in one night. it ends with the soldier killing an old man that calmly tells the soldier, "Do your job, boy." before his throat is slit. it was maybe from a camp in Ukraine or something. Please help me find the journal. Thank you.

I was wondering if there were any Christians or Jews who travelled with the early Muslims to spread Islam.

I'm looking for a specific event that would cause Hitler to invade, if there is one. Thanks!