I saw something that said close to 90% of the Native Americans were killed by European disease, why didn't it work the other way around as well?

Black dresses that graduated into 2nd mourning lavender, the rules about bunting, hair jewelry, all of it. Why were the rituals of grief in this period so complicated?

In some video games, and art you will sometimes see a high ranking officer using only a pistol even when much more powerful weapons are available.

Was listening and studying Piano Sonata No.23, by Beethoven and was wondering if Beethoven himself was able to play such a crazy piece.

What was Kaiser Wilhelm II's reaction to the Nazis, their victories in Western Europe, and WWII in general?

I’m working on a Civil War diary and just finished transcribing the entries. The diary belonged to a goofy teen boy who went to military academy in the north-east and received demerits regularly.

He finished off one entry with “can not go out of the building after sunset for one month because I plagued one of the servant girls.” I don’t want to pervert the statement by jumping to the assumption that “plagued” is a euphemism for sex, so I’m trying to cover my bases by looking for alternative meanings first.

So, I’m wondering. What were some common contexts the verb “plague” may’ve been used in 19th-century America?

I understand that some Asian civilizations like the Chinese, built fortifications and walls, but I've never heard of an Asian Castle in the Western or Middle Eastern sense. Given the amount of war in the area I find this strange.

Physics state that anything that goes up must come down. I'm surprised that I never considered this, but what happened to all that flak that was shot up into the air over Germany in World War 2? Surely the vast majority didn't hit anything with enough traction to lodge and stick, so it must have been raining shrapnel during and just after air raids, no? Do we have any primary sources that touch on this? (And this is to say nothing about all the bullets that were shot during the intercept battles above.)

Hello fellow redditors & Historians!

Please know that English is not my first language and that I am a german history student attending university. The topic of this thread is one of my 2 possible final exam topics and I am looking for some help, advice or even better, literature.

My Professor did not accept my literature list, because it contains -as she said- too old information (published ~1970 etc.).

Here it is:

• Fogel, Robert W./Engerman, Stanley L., The relative efficiency of slavery. A comparison of northern and southern agriculture in 1860, in: Explorations in Economic History 8 (1971) H. 3, S. 353-367.

• Katz, Stanley Nider/Kutler, Stanley I., New perspectives on the American past, Boston 1969.

• Metzer, Jacob, Rational management, modern business practices, and economies of scale in the ante-bellum southern plantations, in: Explorations in Economic History 12 (1975) H. 2, S. 123-150.

• Wright, Gavin, Slavery and the cotton boom, in: Explorations in Economic History 12 (1975) H. 4, S. 439-451.

• Jones, Peter d'Alroy, The U.S.A. A history of its people and society to 1877, Vol.1, Illinois 1976.

Now, I would love to hear if you have any "newer" (1990+) literature to recommend and if possible, a URL that leads me to it. That would help me tremendously! English literature is fine!

Thank you very, very much in advance!

Of course we hear of great cities in Africa and Asia like Ctesiphon and Carthage, but aside from perhaps Alesia, we don't hear much about European or Eurasian cities of the enemy.

I know there is an ancient Gothic city on the black sea coast that is attested to in an early medieval chronicle, there must be some mention of Gothic capitals in Roman literature.

I am interested in hearing anything about these enemy cities that you have to say!

I'm mostly interested in the evolution of the idea of slavery among public opinion worldwide. I'm guessing the book should focus on the 19th and early 20th century.

Keeping with theme of "Crime and Punishment," I was re-reading Foucault's Discipline & Punishment: The Birth of the Prison, and I was wondering: has Foucault's theories, generally or specifically about crime and punishment, affected the fields?

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