There remain pockets of people in several South American countries that have African influenced beliefs such as Santeri, Orisha, Umbanda, and Candoble. Although these religious beliefs have blended some christian elements they retain a Yoruba heritage to this day.

I assume that African slaves brought their religion with them but why didn't this beliefs survived in the U.S.?

i.e. Exodus, Noahs Ark, New Testament stories of Jesus, etc.

I didn't have much luck on google even with the site:.edu tag. can any historians shed some light with unbiased primary sources regarding these stories?

It's very hard for me to find reliable counts of what the composition Congress would've been had the South not seceded, but I'm unsure if abolitionists had the strength to pass anti-slavery legislation/amendments through Congress. Why did the Confederate leadership believe that secession was the best option? Were they worried that the Republicans and anti-slavery Democrats would join together, did they think they would be fighting a constant rearguard defense of slavery if they remained in the Union?

Did any secessionists specify why they choose secession rather than the other options that were available?

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Since the ruling on Obergefell v Hodges, some counties have refused to issue any marriage licenses, politicians are calling the Supreme Court an unnecessary institution, and many conservatives are worried about religious freedom. Was there a similar reaction when the Supreme Court legalized interracial marriage? What was the reaction of conservatives or Southern states w/ Jim Crow laws?

I understand that most consider the P-51 the superior dog-fighting aircraft. I think that might be a little tainted as by the time the P-51 came in the Luftwaffe had lost many of its best pilots and their manufacturing and repair was impaired by them losing the war.

In terms of how much they are mentioned, it seems to me that the order is: Mustang, Spitfire, Messerschmidt 109, P-47, Hurricane, ME-262, FW-190, P-40, and then maybe the P-38 gets a mention at some point.

I also think that the P-38 did nearly all of the heavy lifting in Europe for the first half of the war - a critical time indeed.

When I see things on TV about the US Bomber campaigns, they act like we had no long range fight escort whatsoever before the P-51's were introduced.

I suspect that one reason for the lack of importance given was due to the P-38 dominating mostly the Pacific Theater; whereas most of the interest is in the European portion of the war.

As a side question: What do you think would have changed had the P-38 been fitted with Merlin engines and produced in large quantities? I know that this was experimented with; but there is little information on the results or the reasons this didn't happen.

I saw it today in the Tokyo national museum. It was a gigantic sword that looks like a blue green claymore in the Egyptian exhibit. I can't speak Japanese, so I can't ask the curators.

Sorry no pics. It just looks very odd to me.

The confederate flag in the news recently has me wondering what the United States was like immediately after the Civil War. Was there resentment? Did the southern states just go back to business as usual? What about in government? Did senators and congressmen report back to DC? Did they even leave?

A friend and I have been talking about the samurai and their armour/weapons, and we hit on the point of both their armour and their katanas. Surely, with those large gaps, the armour would have been useless if one were to poke the holes with a katana or spear.

Another question- you see some people claiming that the katana was never really widespread, but if so, what did armies use as weapons? Why did they use those instead of katanas, which are so much more powerful?

The question I want answered is - how did these weapons and armour develop?

Are goddess/venus/female figurines evidence of an ancient matriarchy? If not, what is their purpose and what insight do they give us into ancient societies? Are there any ancient matriarchies?

Was it out of boredom? Smiled upon by officers for its morale implications? Really meant to send a messge? And was it limited to the US and Britain? Are there Soviet/German examples?

were chosen people sent out after a battle to gather the remains of the fallen soldiers on their side and also pick up remaining equipment or were battlefields just left as they were and eventually looters would come around.

Obviously the nation state of Uganda didn't exist and even today its population is ethnically diverse, so take my 'Uganda' as a vague geographical term, rather than a political one.

Ugandans who are vocally against homosexuality often talk about it being incompatible "Ugandan values." A common counter argument to this in, say, India, is that homosexuality was criminalised by the British, not the indigenous population. Do we know whether this was the case in Uganda?

You'd think that since you found it first, you'd have the first cake but they didn't why? .

I live in Britain and here Spitfires are a modern legend and any documentary on them is borderline hero worship. They are very much portrayed as the perfect plane with no faults and the reason WW2 was won. But how good were they really? What were their weak areas/shortcomings and what was their actual impact if any on the war. An obvious example of that last question could be the battle of Britain but again there is so much bias I wouldn't be surprised if in a few hundred years the battle and Spitfires are a new arthurian legend.