I mean, there are obvious ones, but would songs like 'Butcher Pete' by Roy Brown have been censored when they came out in the 1930s? I've heard that 69 is first seen in my native French centuries ago, but would it have been understood in the 1950s with Connie Allen's 'Rocket 69'?

Perhaps I'm naive, but I just find it surprising that the lyrics are so sexually obvious, but I can't tell if its because contemporary society/dirty mind or if they would have also understood.

Were there actually any peasants in the Estates General of 1789? Or was it merchants, etc. ?

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I know the story of the HMS Glow worm and also about the German pilot that escorted a severely damaged B-17 to safety. However, did the Japanese did anything as gracious to allied forces during the war? I know they didn't follow the same ideology as Europeans and had a radically different doctrine of warfare, but did any Japanese individual or group perform any actions similar to the stories stated above?

I've been doing some reading on Aterian tools lately, and I found something that interested me:

Some studies of comparative skeletal morphology have suggested that these people exist on the same morphological continuum as the Jebel Irhoud specimens, currently thought to date to 160,000 years ago. The 'Aterian' fossils also display similarities to the earliest modern humans found out of Africa at Skhul and Qafzeh in the Levant, and they are broadly contemporary to them.

So what does this mean? Did Moroccan Aterian tool users belong to the same ethnic group (or a sister group) as the one that the first modern humans out of Africa belonged to? During this period, when humans first migrated out of Africa, what kind of tools were they using? Did they resemble Aterian tools or were they something else entirely?

Trying to put the 'was Jesus a refugee' argument into a more historical context here.

I believe to be a true historian career-wise, you need to have either a master's or PhD, right? Well, there's no way I can get one at this point. I love history, but I do not love writing papers so much. Visiting historical sites and reading everything I can get my hands on? Definitely! I have been going back and forth on what I want to do with my life for quite a while, hence the multiple degrees. I chose to get into computer science because there is so much out there as far as jobs and oh so little available in history. I think what I need to do is find some sort of middle ground. My main interests in history are American (earlier stuff, before we became super industrialized - I mainly love the transitioning period, when things just started getting technical) and Victorian England. What could someone who has a love of history and has computer skills do?

I have to write a research essay on the revolutionary war in NYC, more specifically Brooklyn.

My thesis thus far is: "At what point did Brooklyn develop it's own culture separate from England, and how did that contribute to the Revolutionary war?"

I know that NYC had the largest loyalist sentiment of any of the colonial cities, possibly due to the british garrison.

I also know of the battle of Brooklyn (A.k.a battle of long island).

I'm asking if anyone can direct me towards some sources pertinent to my thesis (statistics, anecdotes, documents, newspapers etc...), as well as perhaps give me a few interesting jumping off points.

Edit: It seems at that point in time brooklyn was primarily farmland. I'm gonna talk about the founding fathers, specifically simon boerum (given that he was a brooklyn famrmer)

Hi, I apologize if this is the wrong place, feel free to remove it.

I am looking for a good book on the History of the Medici Family. I am fascinated by this family since I saw a Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo and Her Son at the Detroit Institute of Arts. I fell in love with that picture, and have researched on and off about her and the Medici family ever since. Mainly through Wikipedia and the internet.

I would love a book or a series of books on the Medici Family and would greatly appreciate any recommendations.

I'm investigating the role of technology and war and their influences on each other.

I'm mostly focused on last 150 years, so I'm curious about inventions like the airplane, refrigeration, the battery, nuclear power,and the automobile.

I'll try to organize my thoughts with three questions:

• Does wartime create space in which research makes great leaps and bounds?
• Do inventions and discoveries occur in times of peace and are applied strategically in war?
• Do technological advances directly/indirectly lead to war?

A friend often says to me that learning history is completely useless. I disagree with him, i think that understanding the links between past and present is essencial to a good understanding of the condition of being human. But when i tell him this, i don't think he grasps the full meaning of what im trying to say. What are some good examples of the importancy of learning history?

If I am not mistaken, Zoltan was a Tengri ? But what about most of the population and especially his warriors that ravaged his western neighbours ( Italy, Provence, Burgundy, ...etc ) ? Were they generally Tengri too or were they made of a multitude of different faiths ?

Isn't it equivalent to say, gathering some French, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Iraqi, Iranian, Yemeni etc together and uniting them into one nation?

Many thanks in advance! :D

Hello, I'm curious to know how much of a financial burden the Jizya, the tax levied on non-Muslims in Muslim areas, was on the common people, and by extension whether it was enough of a burden to compel people to convert.

I was mostly curious about during the original Muslim conquests during the time of Muhammad and the years following, but I would also be interested in information during other periods, such as the Golden Age of Islam or the Ottoman Empire.

Thank you.

Which symbolism can be at play behind this name ?

As a follow-up question if possible, what is the relation between the Dauphin & the Dauphiné? Bif of a chicken/egg question here.

Thank you for your answers !

How many countries must be "at war" simultaneously for it to be called a World War? We're seeing more countries, including China recently, declare war against Daesh. I'm curious about how loose or strict the definition of a "world war" is, and when people started calling the World Wars, "World Wars."

Thanks!

Or, put another way, why are there so few Welsh surnames compared to the much larger diversity thereof among native Englishmen?

Every rebuttal mentions culture and ideology, but those don't just spontaneously appear. There has to be some causal series of events that brought forth said culture. Wouldn't the root of that causal chain be geography? Is my interpretation broader than the intended meaning of the term? Because otherwise I do not see how one could argue against the idea. Are all historians dualists? Where is the culture coming from if not environmental stimuli?

What factors drove the Norse to leave Scandinavia for the British Isles and Western Europe?