I am doing research for my senior research paper on the impacts of the banking system on the Panic of 1837 and comparing it to the impacts the banking system had on the Panic of 1873. I chose these two because they both resulted in large numbers of bank failures and I also wanted to look at the difference in the economy before and after the Civil War. Any scholarly resources or primary sources would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

I'm pretty sure Virginia Wolf talked about plucking information down from some sort of Web (her words). Did any futurists, science writers, sociologists get close? Or was the event truly unforeseeable prior to its advent?

Edit: I'm seeing 1 in the reply count but nothing is there. Means poster is shadowbanned FYI.

(first asked on askanthropology, sorry if still wrong location).

Recently on one of the ask reddits I saw an accepted statement that ocean levels have risen 120 meters overs the last 20,000 years(6 meters per 1000 years average).

In the myth of Atlantis it is claimed that the predecessors of Athens fought Atlantis, which means Atlantis would predate Athens' founding.

So, my full question is: when was the founding of Athens; and based on the ocean rise rate of 6 meters per 1000 years: what were ocean levels at the time of Athens founding, and how does that affect hypothetical locations for Atlantis and geography from its myth?

Can someone explain to me how the dark ages exactly began? I know it's because of the fall of the Roman Empire, but that sounds so blunt to me.

Even more interesting: is it possible to have another one in the future with the same causes as the previous one?

Was it taught in schools? How did your average person learn about it? Did families sit around discussing who was more powerful? Did people believe that they were living concurrently with the gods and that they could occasionally get news about what they've been doing? I asked about greek mythology, but would be interested in hearing about any of them.

I've never seen any other "miniature" crown like hers. Was it an original, bold fashion move, or an already existing traditional type of crown? I think it was a clever idea but it could have had a bad reception and her image could have looked cartoonesque for most people.

Was there any other way it could've feasibly gone?

Was there a trade and a market for it so I would buy it sort of like how someone would buy heating fuel now? Or would I take some time off to go to the woods and make my own?

Also where would the nearest woods be to large cities and would they be protected from chopping?

Also how was it transported? Wood seems like a bulky heavy commodity.

Also, how would the "typical peasant" be affected by suddenly having a different rule in terms of safety, freedom, economy etc?

I visited the US recently, and while I saw some people as dark skinned as Africans, I saw far more dark but not as dark skinned people. This got me thinking about how there has to have been a lot of mixing between those descended from Europeans, Africans, Asians and natives. So... how did the various groups view those of mixed descent? And how were they treated? I realize these relationships are still evolving, but I'm interested in a historical perspective.

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Now in present time, the military has aircraft forms, where maintenance actions are documented on, technical manuals that need to be used for every maintenance action, strict safety rules, personnel that make sure everything is being done correctly, and so much more. I'm curious if the same guidelines were somewhat the same back in the day. Thanks!

Hi all, I was wondering what are some reputable books (with plenty of citations and such) that focus on the Mexican Revolution, specifically the actions of Zapata and Villa?

Also, what are some good books that focus on the Soviet Union's contributions to World War II, in particilar, their conflict with Germany?

Many thanks!

In 1978 and 1983 two Korean civilian planes were shot down after entering Soviet airspace. After 1983 disaster, Reagan record his "Address to the Nation on the Soviet Attack on a Korean Airliner".

In this video, he said: "Commercial aircrafts from Soviet Union and Cuba, on a number of occasions, have overfllown sensetive United States military facilities. They were not shot down".

Is this really happened? And how US military respond to this situatuions?

In my professor's words, "Apollo walked into Mt. Olympus like a man wielding a nuclear warhead, and Zeus, always with the coup of his father on his mind, was worried that his powerful son would upset the balance of Olympus and claim leadership as head of the gods."

Certainly Apollo was considered a powerful god, but much of the contemporary sources I've read have been in reference to his divinatory and musical qualities. I'll admit that the theme of a god whose genealogy is rife with fathers killing sons being afraid of his son is poetic. But are there sources that support this claim that Apollo was somehow a threat to Zeus genuine?

When did the common man start celebrating it?

I know that the Roman empire didn't dissolved overnight, but were there a certain period in which a Roman citizen could just say: well, everything changed around here, from now one, nothing will be the same again? And if the answer is yes, was this change something that a citizen would worry about? Or the transition was to slow for a generation to regard it as a collapse?

On a broader level, can the collapse of a civilization be experienced by individuals, or it's a lengthy process that overcome one's lifespan?

Im talking a fictious book written by an ancient person. Fascinating to see the literary perspective of the authors born centuries ago. Eg: "The Iliad" by Homer