Hello, I’ve been researching a bit about the United States Civil War recently and the subject of the Confederate States is fascinating to me (of course not in a positive way). What I’m curious about is this; I know there were Democrats and Republicans (which were a new party at the time) that were in the Union, but did the Confederacy have different political parties, or were they entirely comprised of disaffected Democrats? I’m assuming those Union Democrats were somehow anti-succession? What was it like for Democrats who still stuck with the Union while their southern counterparts succeeded?

I can’t find a good answer through Google. Thanks in advance!!

I was reading about the Battle of Blair mountain earlier, and a thought hit me. How did rural areas such as these go from hard left to hard right over time?

John V. A. Fine's The Late Medieval Balkans - A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest refers to a so-called "Tati Agreement" between Sigismund of Hungary and Stefan Lazarević regarding the status of Beograd. Sigismund presented himself at the city with an army in 1429 after Đurađ Branković was installed as Despot of Serbia because he did not believe Đurađ would hand over the city. However, I am finding it difficult to find any more resources regarding the Tati Agreement's content. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I was imagining a bunch of medieval peasants standing in line to see an execution, but then I started wondering how old the phenomenon of waiting in a queue for something was.

Wikipedia tells me, "The first written description of people standing in line is found in an 1837 book, The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle.[5] Carlyle described what he thought was a strange sight: people standing in an orderly line to buy bread from bakers around Paris.[5]"

Is that remotely true? Do we have accounts from Ancient Rome of people waiting in line to get into the Coliseum, or people in Jerusalem standing in line to enter one cathedral or another, or are queues/lines a modern concept? If so, why are they such a new innovation? Did people before then just sort of congregate in large crowds and slowly shove their way someplace?

Thanks!

The original Napoleon faced 7 coalitions counting the 100 days. Time and time again the powers of Europe declared war on him to restore France to what it was prior to the French revolution and topple Napoleon from power. Fast forward half a century just about, Napoleon III also launches a coup and becomes an Emperor in his own right. What were the reactions around Europe and why didn't a European coalition form to topple Napoleon III? Were there fears that Napoleon III would launch campaigns against Europe like his uncle? I've never understood why he was allowed to rule as Emperor of the French and would like some answers. Thank you

My great grandfather, Georg Arndt, supposedly owned a women’s clothing store in Berlin named Arndt und Kluss (or Kluss und Arndt). He was last seen by his family on Kristallnacht and I have traced him to the concentration camp where he was killed but I can’t find any information about the store. Any ideas?

Maybe I have watched too much American television and movies, but after releasing their payload, how did the two planes and crew safely make it out of the blast radius? I know that the two bombs used then were smaller than what is around now-a-days, but I have to believe the blast radius was still significant and the speed of WW2 American bombers, not that impressive. Any information would be appreciated, the only article I could find on the Smithsonian website touched on the importance/controversy of said event.

Something that occurred to me is this; I often hear about how the Romans had a policy of incorporating other gods into their pantheons by saying they were just other forms of their own gods. People frame it as being totally peaceful and a great thing...

My problem with that is, wouldn’t that be cultural appropriation? Wouldn’t it have caused changes the religions of the natives, trying to force them to conform? I want to point out we didn’t see any of this with the Mongols, or Alexander the Great. Both just let the people worship as they pleased, to my knowledge. Yet Rome’s policy of integrating other deities into their religion would entail forcing the worshippers to worship their gods.

So has Rome’s treatment of the Celtic religions been mischaracterized and wasn’t benevolent? Could they have been a reason for why there’s little first hand sources for it?

Did people just buy thing with the gold itself or did they have people that would actually buy it? Both seem difficult to manage either it would be hard to buy stuff with just the gold and if they sold it where did the buyers get the finance for that much gold?

Graham Hancock believes there was an advanced civilization that was destroyed by the ice age in the younger dryas hypothesis.

I find some of his evidence to be pretty compelling and fascinating.

Just finished his new Netflix show “Ancient Apocalypse” and have been a fan of his through the Joe Rogan Experience.

Curious to hear your thoughts!

What was the Norse reaction to the St. Brice's Day Massacre?

Both Italy and Japan were split into separate domains for a long time, which assisted in the growth of their respective organised crime organisations. Germany was also fragmented into many separate tiny domains for a long time, but it does not have an equivalent to the Mafia and Yakuza. Why is that?

(Of course organised crime does exist in Germany as in all countries, but the question is about the culture of organised crime which is prevalent in Italy and Japan but not at all in Germany).

Thanks for any responses.

My grandfather was a pilot in World war 2. We knew he flew mostly in India, but I think in Europe a little bit too. Near his death, he lost a lot of lucidity, but apparently a few days before his death he told my mom that he was held in a Japanese POW camp at some time.

We have no idea if this is true or not, and I’m just curious if anyone knows any way that you could find this out?

Do a Google search and all top, reputable sites will say they were made to help kings get to the afterlife post-burial. However, search what was found in the pyramids and it's little to no human remains. The pharaohs we have found we're in the Valley of the Kings, not in pyramids. What's going on, historians?

I am looking for a serious academic examination of the Carnation Revolution and its aftermath, and nothing appears to exist in English other than explicitly biased texts. Wikipedia’s own citations (and articles) are similarly scarce, as is this subreddit from what I can tell.

Given the seemingly remarkable reality of what occurred, I’m curious as to why it has received so little attention from anglophone historians. Am I missing something? Is there a paucity of Portuguese-English fluency? Or am I just incorrect in thinking that this would be an area ripe for academic work?

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I have managed to find one book by a seemingly neutral PhD-holder: Out of the Shadows: Portugal from Revolution to the Present Day by Neill Lochery, but even this seems to be heavily reliant on British diplomatic archives, which are of course not entirely reliable for a neutral account.

I know there were a amount of purposeful infection but was it primarily purposeful?

Was there still consistent non-government controlled trade between coastal peoples in Japan and the mainland during this time? I would assume that an official policy of isolationism wouldn't be able to prevent all trade between these countries.

If some trade did exist, was it mostly done at a black market level, or did the government willingly just turn a blind eye as long as it was done below a certain scale?

What about trade with the Ainu? Were they considered an outside power to be isolated from in this regard as well?

So I am watching „Im Westen nichts neues“. After the treaty was signed, the german troops attacked again. Did that actually happen?

Driving through SC and GA, I’m curious to see the number of young pine forests out the window and the reservoirs on the map. Could anyone recommend more to read about the politics and rationale behind the transformation of the piedmont and lowcountry areas of these states, especially in the 20th century?

Hello everyone, I'm working on a story and I need as much info as possible on antique/vintage coin operated gas meters. I would love a photo if anyone has one, and please feel free to volunteer any other info/stories. Nothing is irrelevant - I need to get a clear picture in my mind of how these things worked/looked/environment, etc. For now, here are my two my main questions:

1. How long (approximately) would a coin, say, a shilling, last? An hour? Five minutes?
2. Where were they typically located?

I spoke to an anarcho primitivist and she told me that humans are hardwired to be egalitarian and it's natural for us to be altruistic and equal because she said all tribes and societies were equal and egalitarian. And said something about progress and stuff and that high level complex communities and societies are unnatural and against our nature.

So were all human societies back then before let's say agricultural societies arose egalitarian? And how egalitarian were they?

We’re early humans really “cave men”? Many landscapes don’t have caves and there doesn’t seem to be enough caves to support large populations.