Did most germans vote for the nazi party? Did most germans feel on board with nazi polcies and values before the war. In fact how many germans were actually on board with german mobilizarion into neighboring countaries? And how favouring or pro-nazi were most countaries before the war?

The biggest even in my nation's history (the Metis nation) was a battle that involved 500 of us fighting the Canadian government at Batoche. The most significant even in the history of the people where I now live, the Nuxalk, was the smallpox epidemic, which resulted in the death of some ninety to 95 percent of the population, between three and ten thousand deaths.

Looking at either one of these events against a backdrop of the first world war or the numbers involved in western migration and settlement makes them seem insignificant drops in a the history bucket, yet at the same time, they are everything to those of us who call these stories ours - how to make sense of this?

Is there any sort of convention within history departments regarding what stories are worthy of being pursued? Or is it a free-for-all limited only by how convincingly you can ask your questions and how interestingly you can tell your stories?

I suspect there is no answer to this, but someone else must of asked themselves these questions before and come up with at least partial answers.

My family is from the coast of Nayarit,MX and my fathers side of the family are african decent. Theres a few towns and the people (myself included) resemble puerto ricans and dominicans. To add i had a blood test and i have hemoglobin s which is a deformity in my blood cells that fight malaria. Doc said its normal if i have african decent. My grandfather said that an old ship crashed in the coast and all the slaves ran out and thats how we came to be. Anyone with knowlege about this matter please help. :)

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I'm very sorry if this question shouldn't be here, though it doesn't seem to contradict the rules.

I recently found among my books an old copy of "The Ancient City", which I read years ago as part of a course on History of the Law. Though very unlike the more contemporary history books I've read, he does present a theory (or version of history?) about the origin of ancient religions, as well as ancient cities, civilizations and institutions (centering around Rome and Greece). Considering how long ago it was written (mid 19th century), and knowing really nothing about the author, I wanted to ask if any historian might know: What are the academic views on this book? Are there any academic views? Is he considered to be right about any (or all) of his work? How much of what he states as facts (origin of certain cities/civilizations, existance/meaning of institutions, etc) is considered to be proven (or generally held) as correct?

Thanks in advance.

I may have a distorted picture of Athens, but to me it seems like they produced a large number of great thinkers, whether philosophers, dramatists, architects, or whatever, when compared to present-day America. And this seems striking, considering that in America we have nearly universal access to the Internet, so just about everyone has the entirety of human knowledge in the palm of their hand. Yet most of us squander this resource by looking at memes and cat videos, whereas the Athenians, with their lack of technology, spent their time using their intellect to tackle issues of actual importance. What percentage of the (free) Athenian population was actually engaged in such activity? Was it just a few aristocrats or was it more substantial than that?

I cant seem to find very little information on this region, does anyone know of anything that could gleam light onto the area?

My grandfather has Alzheimer's and loved watching the History/Military channels. He now doesn't have the attention span (or is even awake long enough) to watch a full program.

I found a fun little article (300 words) on mental floss about giving Sears products to spies instead of cash. He was able to pay attention long enough to understand the article and LOVED it. He read it 4 times in a row, laughing each time.

I was hoping for any recommendations on books, articles, whatever that have short stories preferably 200-500 words regarding history and military history. I printed out one that was 700ish, but that seemed a little much. Anything more than 300 is a little iffy, but worth a shot.

Any help is welcome. I finally found something he can pick up and read (I copy these articles and make the font a bit bigger for him) on his own and enjoy it.

Thank you all in advance. You guys rock!

Previous generations talk fairly commonly about the days when it was uncommon to go out in public wearing the kind of clothing that we are now generally accustomed to seeing people wear in public, so I am curious to know at what point (if there was one singular point in our country's history) we started dressing more casually.

So in my first post here, I asked for sources about the fall of Rome, but my professor denied my request to do a historiography on the fall of Rome since it is just a mere 50 years or so before what our class covers in world history. So I asked him if I could write about how the UK of Great Britain and Ireland got its name. I'm having a difficult time refunding my original sources that I found while drunkenly researching one night and now I'm stuck.

So I'm asking anybody out there, could you please assist me in finding sources on the formation of the UK and what led to that, such as the English empire conquering lands or what not (I can't remember exactly what I read in my drunken stupor). I appreciate any help or sources you provide.

Today i was told that the Mayans, after the Spanish conquest, had transformed into an oral culture with no writing. I took it at face value but wanted to verify this. Im not sure. but anyways, how they figured it out?

I read in a book a while ago that slaveholders in Confederate America weren't necessarily avidly pro-slavery, but viewed slavery as a "necessary evil." At least this was until the North started criticizing them and questioning the moral grounds for slavery, which is when Southerners claimed moral justification for their beliefs. Was the South's wild support of slavery a result of the "backfire effect," (someone's beliefs grow stronger when shown contradictory evidence) or did they really have strong feelings about slavery all along?

Were their mounts sent back from the front lines to avoid enemy fire? What if the troops needed to remount? How did they keep their horses safe from enemy fire?

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I've had many arguments with different people in my family concerning this subject. They would have me believe that the natives were brutally killing each other long before any colonists arrived. It's not that i believe there wasn't any infighting, i just dont believe it was as prominent as some say. Any help is much appreciated!

There's French, Italian, Spanish, English, German, Danish, Dutch, etc.

In 8th grade when I remember learning about the holocaust, my teacher said that the Nazis did such cruel stuff to Jews that even the crazy Japanese (and something about how the Japanese had similar brutality or camps) said that was disgusting.

I remember his name from a History two-hundred-something course in college and I remember saying to myself "damn that guy is a BAMF"