While I do understand the Cold War strategic implications of not invoking the Doctrine, I see that it was selectively enforced (Cuba being a good example of when we used it when we liked what it did, according to Kennedy who said that Russian presence violated the Doctrine, more or less). My other question along with that would be if there was any debate about the Falklands with the Monroe Doctrine, because it seems exactly like the type of action its writers wanted to prevent.

looking for a few sources for ugandan cultures other then wikipedia for a humanities class. you guys always have good and interesting sources.

From what I had known previously Nero was a more fair emperor to the working class than his predecessors and had several other positive aspects, why is he viewed in such an objectively bad light today?

Did they remove the desks or something like that? Also, did they change offices to get better views, closer to the door, etc?

I've recently been watching HBO's "Rome" and the way they show the life in the city of Rome itself (Lots of murder, humiliation and threatening with physical abuse and mutiliation; sometimes even openly in the streets) left me wondering if that is a historically accurate presentation of life in an ancient city. I guess I should at that I am not primarily speaking of the political intrigues and riots, which are also shown in the series and which are historically accurate (i.e. Caesar was actually killed in the senate).

I was listening to some old recordings and I heard a speech by Teddy about his treatment of Standard Oil. I am assuming it is some sort of anti-trust effort but I don't get the meaning or the etymology. Would love to know the details, context and the origin of the phrase.

I don't understand why African Americans wouldn't have fought harder for the movement before the 50s.

Hi, I'm writing my term-research paper on Carnegie and I couldn't find any specifics of why he wanted world peace. Obviously it is something that everyone would want but is there any reason, maybe something specific to his childhood that could have sparked the desire? Thanks!

So in the EU4 community, players frequently have flame wars over nations being ahistorically strong or weak. Specifically, many players complain that England (and the British Isles) start the game in a very weak position. The game covers a time period from 1444 to 1821.

However, others claim that England was that weak in reality. They point to sources that show England's 1350 population at 3 million (1), compared to France, which was at 20 million at that same time. Given that, it makes sense that England starts out significantly weaker than its contemporaries.

But given that England was much poorer and less populous than its European rivals throughout the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, how exactly did it become the greatest superpower of the 19th century?

1. Stuart, James Borsch, The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study, University of Texas Press, 2005.

A friend was telling me that they were slaves. But I've heard elsewhere that they weren't?

As a Canadian, I'm aware that the British reinforced our armed fortresses during the US Civil War, out of pre-cautions that the Union Army could invade, due to close economic ties which the British had with the Confederate states.

I'm also aware that the US based a few regimental uniforms of theirs off of the French style, meaning that relations between those two were probably quite strong at the time.

However, I'm curious as to how other European nations felt while the US was at war with itself.

After reading a few pieces on the invasion of Russia and the aims of Operation Barbarossa, why did they think this, or is this false information?

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I'm assuming they didn't just go out in the wilderness with a net hunting for negroes. My (current) understanding that at, at least in the earliest years of the slave trade, they actually purchased from or traded with the African tribes themselves for slaved. So what was the actual methods used to get slaves back then?