How many members did the Ku Klux Klan boast in 1946? Was it OK to express your support for the Klan in polite society? How was the Klan regarded in the South? How was it regarded outside the South?

When the Superman radio serial aired a story where Superman fights the Ku Klux Klan, was there any major backlash in the press?

Basically have any incan or pre incan artifacts ever been found in Mexico, The United States, and Canada. Or have any pueblo, Mississippian, Aztec, Mayan, Olmec, Zapotec, etc. artifacts ever been found in South America?

Popped into my head when i was reading about the 100th anniversary of Einstein's theory of general relativity (which is today)

What is the history of freemasonry?

Im making a costume and wanted to know.

In Western European nobility, especially in England, titles of nobility would run along the lines of "Duke of", "Earl of", "Count of", and then a location name like Somerset, Norfolk, Shaftsbury, etc.

Often these titles would be ended, resurrected, ended again, resurrected. Sometimes they would be stripped from one person and given to another or passed down to an heir who held a different title and lived somewhere else entirely.

This can sometimes be confusing as the Earl of Shaftsbury might actually be living in Berkshire for example. So ultimately the question is, is how much did the title match the nobles owned lands and place of residency? Did the monarchy just retain a lot of older titles that weren't tied to historical origin for posterity and tradition?

Specifically the heads of the Axis since they all spoke different languages and with Japanese being linguistically so far from Italian and German.

During WW2, the British had the Long range desert group, the SAS, Commandos, the SOE as well as airborne, the Americans had the airborne, the rangers and OSS, i would guess they had some more units but i cant remember more at the top of my head.

On the other hand the Germans had the Brandenburgers, fallschirmjäger, some SS units and if I am not mistaking Otto Skorzeny was in charge of some of them.

So did the Soviets have anything which one could compare in terms of special operations?

Sorry if this question makes assumptions, I'm sure it must. I've been listening to hardcore history and am of course no sort of scholar at all.

Hello fellow historians. I need some help in regards to whether or not Marxism is a good way to approach the study of history. I've started learning about Marx's Dialectic and the three concepts that is made up of. I have also learned that Marx preferred a more materialist/scientific concept of history. It would be great if anyone knows any weaknesses and strengths in such an interpretations of history with examples of other interpretations of history. Any Historiography on Marixst interpretation of history would also be sweet :3

Many Thanks!

As far as I know, this is a common story to hear.

About two weeks ago, I went with my school to a Holocaust museum, and we were told that both of these stories were just myths, and never really happened.

Today, one of my teachers said that he saw evidence of these stories when he visited Auschwitz, and that they definitely happened.

I'm more inclined to believe the museum staff, but he is my teacher, and I respect him.

I would appreciate if you could source your answers, so I could ask my teacher about it.

Thanks in advance.

So I've been doing a little research lately with a mind to improvement of my 9th century Norse kit (I'm a member of the SCA). A little background, the persona being created is a Norse colonist living in the Orkney islands during the mid 9th century. Hunting is something I'm exploring in the context of the period, and for that I need a quiver, of which there is scant information on for this time period and culture.

Now I've seen a few papers talking about possible birch bark quivers from the finds at Nydam, but these are several centuries removed from my time period. Much close, both geographically, and temporally, is the Scar Boat Burial find.

I've seen mention several places of a quiver found at the burial, the only info I've found so far though is that it contained 8 arrows, and the term quiver is always used, but nothing more. No material composition, no description of construction, nothing... An email sent to the museum that houses the find was never responded to, and my Google and other searching has been to no avail.

There is a book with information about the artifacts found in the burial, but I have no access to a copy (nor does the ILL system in my area), could some kind soul with a copy (or better yet someone who's seen this quiver first hand) fire off some information for me to use to try to make a quiver based off the find.

Any info on other quivers from the "Viking age" would also be fantastic!

Thank you in advance!

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