So, yeah. Just the title I guess :)

Hi, I'm curious to see where historians/informed individuals here go to find academic reviews on books. I'm trying to find an academic review of Fredric Chapin Lane's "Venice, a Maritime Republic" book, but have yet to be able to find one.

Do people here have a favorable view of the book, compared to more recent scholarship? My largest reservation about the book is its date of publication, 1973, whereas I would like to get the latest academic information on it. Thoughts?

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I'm doing a project for college on the impact of Bloody Sunday on the numbers of IRA volunteers.

However, I've found that neither the IRA nor the British Intelligence released officially the number of volunteers IRA had. Could you help me find reliable (and by that I mean info that can be cited) information on the estimated number of volunteers in the 70s?

Thank you in advance!

Specifically the kind to protect fragile objects being transported in crates, in or around 1914.

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When I research the policy of neutrality, the texts talk about people who opposed the policy of neutrality but never their reasons or interests. Who did oppose neutrality in the U.S during World War I?

I came across posts about sieges and they could last for huge amounts of time. Eventually you'll be starving people out if you're not getting their walls down fast enough.

So those defenders are eating something for a long time. I assume the main food being preserved is grains, because that's historically a pretty safe bet for what people grew, and harvested, and ate.

To keep the scope reasonable, lets limit this to Europe. Who was keeping the food built up? Did food get a treatment before being stored? Did people guard the food from other people inside the walls?

If you're going to be behind your walls for upwards of a year or two, how long was extra grain being built up? Was old grain rotated out, or was there some super ancient grain sitting in the bottom of the barrel forever? Was a surplus always desired in case of sieges, or was it just when you knew there was a war that you started to store extra?

Where can I find more about town-side logistics of medieval sieges?

With Factories going day and night, damaged ships hemorrhaging oil, radioactivity from A Bombs and a million other things, I can't imagine WWII was very good for the environment. Has anyone looked into it?

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I've found it among afro-centrist circles and was wondering how popular the idea is among historians and archaeologists

Scholars routinely assert that America’s founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state. This generalization may be accurate with respect to a handful of founders, but it is palpably false as applied to the founding generation. Our recent book, Faith and the Founders of the American Republic (Oxford, 2014), helps set the record straight and provides a more nuanced account of the founders’ religious commitments and their views on the religious liberty and church-state relations. Moreover, there seems to have been a consensus among the founders, including those most informed by Enlightenment rationalism, that religion and morality were indispensable to their great political experiment in republican self-government. We are pleased to answer questions about these topics throughout the day.

     Daniel L. Dreisbach is a professor at American University in Washington, D.C.  He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia.  His research interests include the intersection of religion, politics, and law in American public life.  He has authored or edited nine books, including Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State (New York University Press, 2002).  Professor Dreisbach is a past recipient of American University’s highest faculty award, “Scholar / Teacher of the Year.”  

Mark David Hall is Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University. He has written, edited, or co-edited ten books, including Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic (Oxford, 2013).

They have collaborated or are collaborating on six books: The Founders on God and Government (2004), The Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life (2009), The Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding (2009), Faith and the Founders of the American Republic (2014), Great Christian Jurists in American History (under contract), and The Godless Constitution, Deist Founders, and other Myths About Religion and the American Founding.

Like the title suggests, was there a separate criminal justice process for children in the 19th century in England, or were children accused of crimes put through the same process as adults?

I have not seen a question like this. Looking at my dog, and the serious personal relationship between man and canine, what is the first example of humans using animals (canines in particular) to defend themselves against other animals? In particular, against other humans. Thanks!

My Anglo-Dutch professor often said during lectures that innovation wasn't looked upon kindly in this era, though he never really went into detail as to why that was. The accusation of innovation was often directed toward the Dutch, especially for their shipbuilding, trade, and manufacturing, but why was this a bad thing?

Like how we do today with the little plastic wands, did they have it a long time ago or is it fairly recent?

Although art history has developed as its own discrete discipline, I feel as a history major I should still have some basic knowledge in this subject. To that end, can anyone reccomend any good survey books on the subject?

How did the arabian slave trade and the atlantic slave trade differ, and why are the affects of the atlantic slave trade still felt today?

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I want to know. Is it because, in that time, the culture is so different and how children were treated? Why is it like that?

Would it be a breed that still exists today?