I've looked everywhere and I can't find anything about what state's rights the south was fighting for? Was there more to it than slavery? Any book or article would be appreciated.

Especially things like the Unification of Italy, Fascist Italy, WWII, and Napoleon invading Italy.

Any spicy church politics?

In a few days I will be going away for vacation. I have gotten an unhealthy interest in the hundred years war. I tried searching on the internet for good books on the subject but I fear that I will find inaccurate books or dull ones.

So this fear led me to you. The infamous historians. I was hoping if you had any suggestions for books that cover for example:

• Everyday life of a commoner during this time period.

• A focus on the royal families and the feudal system during this time period.

• A list and/or description of decisive battles during this time period.

Those points are pretty much where my interest lies. So anything that comes anywhere close to describing that would be amazing. Ofcourse an accurate book on the subject of the hundred years war would do just fine. Thank you for taking your time and reading this. I appreciate any help. G'day!

The source of this quote is a letter dated January 10, 1715, from one Giles Rainford, in Bennett's Creek, NC (near present day Gatesville, NC).

I'd imagine it only gave the enemy opportunity to flank the individual maniples. Or was this only used in the deployment phase, so that before the fighting commenced the Principes could just walk forward and align with the Hastati? Though this doesn't add up with the Roman fighting style as I know it, which kept the Principes in reserve.

Hi AskHistorians,

After recently graduating with a degree in chemistry, I have started to feel that I have left some rather large gaps in my knowledge in other topics. I know very little about the world wars, something which I would like to change...which books would you recommend I read?

Did the Romans literally think the planet was an embodiment of the god? Or did they think the planet 'belonged' to the god, or otherwise symbolized it? (Obviously the same question applies to any planet/star, not just Jupiter)

First, I'm sorry if that's not the best place for me to post this. But I've learned about this war at school, and I want to know more about it, it wasn't an important war, so my teacher just talked a little bit about it, as a trivia. But anyway, it's a war between The Netherlands and Colonial Brazil. That's all I remember:

Spain had inherited Portugal and consequently, their colonies. So Spain was getting really rich because of all the gold and sugar from the colonies. Then The Netherlands decided to invest some money in Colonial Brazil, I don't know exactly why, maybe they wanted to do this so Brazil would sell sugar to them and not to Spain? But anyway, when the Dutch arrived in Brazil, Dutch people and Brazilians couldn't understand each other because of the language differences, so Brazilians thought it was an invasion and attacked then, so this war started.

So, my questions are, how Spain inherited Portugal? Why The Netherlands wanted to give Brazil money? And was this really a war or just a battle?

Thanks for the help and sorry for all the history mistakes I made, I really don't remember very much about this

The title probably isn't very clear, but i couldn't really think another way to put it, but i was just reading the Thales of Miletus article on the Wikipedia when i read he predicted a eclipse on 585 BC.

I started to wonder, how would he tell which years would it happen? did they have another starting point for years instead of our BC and AC?

Not sure i'm being clear here, don't know how to put in words my question. Also, sorry for my english, not my first language.

This has never made sense to me, it seems like when Lincoln was campaigning he kept saying that he was not interested in ending the institution of slavery he just wanted to keep the union together so what was the big hoopla?