I feel the need to preface this be emphasizing that this is just an attempt to better understand what was motivating a certain group of people during a certain period of time. I am not an anti-semite, all lives matter, etc. I Just feel the need to put that out there, because I recognize that the question below could be viewed as an attempt by some internet crackpot to 'dig up dirt on the Jewish cabal'.

I am reading James Joyce's Ulysses for the first time, and in it, several characters, both Irish and British, express fears of the corrupting influence of Jews in their countries; specifically, 'German jewry'. Ulysses was published in 1922, a year before Hitler was sent to prison, so it doesn't seem that these opinions would have been influenced too heavily by Nazi rhetoric. For the first time it's clear to me that Hitler didn't invent fear and hatred of the jews, he was merely a product of his time.

It makes me wonder if there were actually any real (not perceived) threats that some Jews may have posed to people who viewed themselves as firmly christian in character. As an analogy, I might open with the obvious parallel to today's world, where the terroristic actions of a few Muslims has engendered in many a hatred of all of Islam. Of course, I don't suspect that Jews in the early 20th century engaged in any terrorist activities, but I do wonder if there were any recorded instances where some Jews, Zionists perhaps, openly threatened to destroy or subvert western culture and values as Muslim extremists do today?

Basically, I'm having trouble believing that anti-semitism was a complete fabrication. I want to be clear that I don't mean to say that there must have been a good reason for people to hate the Jews at the time, just that there must have been a reason, a complex one, one that can't be simply explained away as human nature's susceptibility to rhetoric and natural distaste for the 'other', just as today, we wouldn't be able to explain rampant anti-muslim sentiment in America that way. To me, it seems reasonable to say that these feelings had to have stemmed from real-world events, whether or not they've been handled poorly is a completely different matter.

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They can be found on the towers of some castles and especially on the towers of fortified churches. They are usually wooden.

For most of organized human society, there weren't censuses every 10 years or so. How do people guesstimate how many people were living in a place? I'm interested in the answer especially for places that didn't leave too many written records (I'm also guessing the answer would have something to do with midden pits or something like that?)

I have never bought into the Idea of epic Hollywood style free for all Moshpit kind of battle, it just seems too suicidal...

If I was in a battle I would want to be alive and unharmed at the end of it hence why I wouldn't charge head first into a formation of men with pointy sticks and sharp bits of metal...

I am speaking more specifically of the last Druids in say Giodolic speaking areas of Europe have died off? By died off I mean physically died off, as in the last couple people likely taught by a Druid to become Druid would have given up the ghost. It doesn't need to be a specific date but I am looking to establish a rough time period when the Giodolic speakers would have completely transitioned to a purely Christianized society and the caste of Druids would be physically extinct.

EDIT: To define Druid I generally mean Druids as described mainly by Greeko-Roman sources. I.E. an initiatory person whom commits cultural knowledge to memory. I am not exactly seeking out when paganism vanished as that isn't my exact interest but when did Druids cease passing along their cultural knowledge orally or at all for that matter.

I'm an undergrad designing my own major of nutrition from a historical standpoint, and I'm in a class that's usually open only to graduate students called The Historian's Craft. We are trying to be better readers and writers of history, with a narrow lens of 1946. We've been reading mostly about Eastern Europe. Our final project is very open-ended... We are submitting a proposal for reasearch that we would hypothetically conduct as graduate students, and using the assignment to hone our skills on databases and other scholarly internet resources, and in libraries.

Most importantly, we are to make clear our questions, arguments, identify and engage with our sources actively, including supplying an annotated bibliography, as well as address the historiography and scholarship of the topic by familiarizing ourselves with previous histories.

My questions are: What were the mass consciousnesses in the US, especially among chooser & spender matriarchs, of nutrition, during WWII and up until 1950? What did the American dinner table look like in terms of macronutrients in 1946? (I will be comparing this to very brief descriptions of more accessible data dealing with the same question applied to the years 1975 and 2015.) What was the timeline of the US's reaction to European issues dealing with famine and the movement to lobby for subsidization of the crops corn, wheat, and soy? How were middle-class American families affected by rationing efforts during the war?

My argument is that the American dinner table changed dramatically because of the availability of corn, wheat, and soy. This spiked availability was a political reaction to the possibility of Americans going hungry. What I hope to address in my eventual research, in a later semester not so focused on the post-war era, is that the increase in portion sizes in the US and the rise of the obesity epidemic is related to very concerted efforts of policy makers inspired by food shortages in Europe following WWII, and that ultimately, issues of obesity are fueled by the strength of the agricultural industry's ability to produce corn, wheat, and soy on such an enormous scale.

Literally ANY scholarly source dealing with ANY of these questions/topics would be greatly appreciated. I also would like to posit the idea that some medical conditions that have become more prevalent since 1975, like autism, certain mental illnesses, and type 2 diabetes can also be traced back (possibly) to the availability of corn, wheat, and soy-based products. I am a ketogenic success story, not just in the ~80 lbs I lost, but also because I have a mental illness that is only manageable with strict limiting of carbohydrates and supplementation with dietary fats. I have a very, very strong bias, but I am aware that this research may lead me to a contradictory conclusion. I am OK with that.

If I have used any terms incorrectly in this post, please forgive me and feel free to correct me, but please don't assume that I'm bullshitting with my studies or this assignment. I'm a straight-A student, but unfortunately because of my mental health, my success in college is following literally no high school education... I was in the hospital the whole time :( There is A LOT that I never learned, and so my hypotheses here might not be as informed as they should be, at this point in my academic career.

If you've read this far, THANK YOU! I am starting with google scholar and when my SO gets home I will be attempting work on JStor, although I have a lot of issues using computers and I'm very intimidated by the databases I'm supposed to be using. Any isolated articles, videos, or sections of published books that I can look at directly would be so, so great. I'm really excited about this project, I expect to have fun with it. Yay!

And... TL;DR I need sources on the nutrition of middle-class American families around the year 1946. (The real topic is much more interesting, though.)

What was the life of a young viking like before 1066. Would the children start training for battle as soon as they could walk? And when they DID start training, would Glima have been fighting style of choice?

I've been searching for sources that discuss this question and have had a hard time finding anything.

Thanks for your help!

I've been helping the Boy Scouts of America archive some of their old media, and I found that they have high-resolution scans of their "Boy's Life" magazine, every month of every year since 1912. If nothing else it's a wonderful insight into how people of those times thought to best educate young men, or what they pictured as the "ideal" young man. It's actually pretty interesting how little changed over the years, although of course there is some notable stuff during the two world wars.

I don't know if the BSA is willing to make these public, but if they were, what would be the best place to put them so that interested parties can find them more easily?

After the French armistice most of the country was occupied by Germany. There was a rump government of Vichy France.

If I were a common French person... Which part of the country would I have a better life during the war?

Was it due to the need to maintain exotic animals (lions for instance) that were used in early films? I am guessing the ability to film outdoors year round also would be an advantage. Thanks in advance for your thoughts here!

Something I was always curious about and never found a real answer to... After the civil war was over were there ever any attempts, be it by major or fringe parties or other organizations to reestablish the practice? Or was that idea fully dead by wars end?

I came across this in one of Clive Cussler's books in The Oregon Files series. Very obviously fiction, but now I'm curious if there is a kernel of truth to it?

This statistic keeps going around about US citizens being 70% against - 30% for allowing Jewish European refugees to immigrate to the United States during World War II. But nobody is saying how many refugees were actually allowed to enter. What were the numbers like? What percentage of people who requested asylum were allowed in? Did this have an effect on later regulation for immigration into the United States? I'm especially interested in this in regards to pre-Pearl Harbor versus post-Pearl Harbor sentiment, as I believe the US was pretty non-committal about the conflict up until that point.

So basically, how would the medieval lords communicate with each other? Would they just send some men in horses and hope the message got sent? And in times of war, when the danger was bigger?

Was looking at Google maps and saw that the Dutch border cuts Antwerp off from the sea. Was wondering why the Belgian's would agree to this deal, or were they simply not given a choice?

For a project in APUSH we are doing a shark tank style presentation in which we attempt to acquire investments for mid 19th century innovations. I was assigned the steamboat, and one piece of information I am having trouble coming up with is the price to build one at the time. Even a rough estimate would be very helpful, as my teacher will not be too strict on this portions. Thank you!