I have recently watched La Dolche Vita and have read some criticisms that Rome was very exagerrated in the film, that it was quite docile and quiet as compared to the NYC environment that is displayed in the film in the city...

Also I have begun reading the skin by Curzio Malaparte which is about Naples during and after WW2, it is displayed as a hell hole and I am wondering if it is really as bad it is displayed. Curzio paints Naples comparable to the Weimar Republic in which prostitution is everywhere with men, woman and children all participating in the act. Food is scare and poverty is everywhere, Crime is high and the GI troops from the Allies just kind of take advantage of it.

The first thought that comes to mind is European imperialism, but why was those said countries weak enough to get colonized in the first place?

Edit: My first gold on a submission! Thanks stranger! :D

What happened in POW camps as the allies started pushing towards Germany? Were there attempts to hold on to/execute prisoners. Or did the Germans simply leave them?

My Granddad was held in a camp that was liberated by a regiment(?) of African-American soldiers so I am particularly interested in accounts of that happening.

I love the vegetable but I know it's an unwieldy thing to prepare sometimes. I wonder how the Native Americans ate it before Christopher Columbus show up.

I've been reading a lot about Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education for a law class, but have yet to come across any mention of what accommodations were available for people who were neither white nor black (re: schools, places of work, and facilities serving the public.)

Where were the Hispanic children educated? Asian? Where did their parents work, socialize, attend church services, etc.? Were they permitted to intermingle with white's on the city bus and in ice cream parlors? Surely not.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I'm a tennis player and watch it more than I probably should. There are a TON of players from E. Europe/Russia it seems with the -ova ending for their last names.

Why is it so prevalent and where does it come from?

I tried googling this but the only thing that showed up was about the Ottomans specifically (who would be the last people I'd think would colonize). But there were lots of other Muslim Kingdoms/Sultanate who were further west then the Ottomans, and surely Morroco and the Berbers who are in consistent contact with the Europeans in Iberia would have come to the conclusion of "New world make Europe wealthy. We should new world so new world make us wealthy too!"

So, I have a school assignment about WW2 (I can freely choose the 'sub-subject') and thought it would be interesting to try and decontruct some commonly cited (and widely believed) myths about Nazi Germany. I was intending to debunk the whole 'Hitler fixed the economy' thing, and while I managed to do a decent write-up based on the Wikipedia article on Nazi economy and some r/askhistorian answers (I realise how that sounds). However I have been, so far, unsuccesful at finding good sources to cite, except second hand citations of Adam Tooze's Wages of Destruction.

I was wondering if you guys could point me to any online sources that I could use to both use to better what I've written and more credibly source it.

Thanks in advance for any answer!

I know that before the Civil War, there was concern about maintaining the balance of slave states and non-slave states. Did any of the states after the Civil War face significant political hurdles before they were admitted?

How would a slave owner have been informed of this? Would they just have immediately walked out to the slave huts and told them to go away? What exactly would have happened between the moment of official abolition of slavery and the moment that the slaves on some random plantation would have walked free?

This question is not of course about the Flavian Dynasty of Rome (Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian), but rather how a majority of late Roman Emperors took the name Flavius as Emperor.

Examples: Constantine, his sons, Julian, the Valentinian and Theodosian Dynasties, and Justinian.

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incidentally my grandfather laughed in his face and said he intended to forget everything about the base as soon as he got back to his home and fiancé.

so far as I can tell he was pretty true to his word. The only anecdote I've got about the lab from him, is that they once put a load of flies in a vacuum chamber just to see what would happen

What I'm really asking is: How could this be possible when The Allies were closing in on the western front, while the Soviets were closing in on the eastern front? One of the first things we are told in this movie, is that the Soviets were 12 kilometers from the center of Berlin. The only logical thing to do, would be to flee north through the port of either Mecklenburg or Lübeck, which I can assume were blockaded by The Royal Navy. Were they just planning on hiding under a rock till the smoke cleared?

I'm interested in learning more about what life was like back around the 1850s for people who lived and travelled on Mississippi riverboats, along with any other specific information or accounts of what life was like back then.

I've considered contacting history professors from different Southern states to see if they knew of any archives, historical societies or other sources of information, but I don't want to come off as rude or be a bother to anyone (I'm Canadian).

So far, I've been reading The Devil in the White City, and George Devol's Forty Years as a Gambler on the Mississippi which have both proven to be quite illuminating.