I have to give a speech to persuade my class about how/why Julius Caesar was a good & just ruler.

I've looked around, but only found a few good solid journals/articles detailing his rule, most of them focus on a bunch of random things.

I'm mainly looking for details of his rule, politics in Rome during his life, stuff like that.. not things comparing Caesar to Alexander The Great and all..

So, anyone have any ideas on good scholarly journals? Thanks for any help!

My grandfather served in this company in WW2, doesn't talk about it much. He had an incredible photo album I remember looking through growing up that was stolen, photos of a concentration camp. Just lots of photos of bodies stacked to the ceiling, ovens, everything you've heard of. He wouldn't talk about it but he left it out for people to see. One day I sat with him and from the little he told me I only know that he was in Britain for a little while at desk jobs and he and a friend were getting bored and volunteered to go fight, moving across Europe and ending in Germany. I'll spare the minute details for the sake of wasting my own time but he did mention being briefly involved in the Battle of the Bulge, I found a booklet on his desk that looked like it was handed out by the Army with "Co. B 1302 Engineers, ADDRESS BOOK" with a bunch of contact information of men in the company, the only reason I even knew to search for this particular group.

I've been studying Irish history for a few semesters now, and my prof keeps hammering the point home that Easter 1916 and Pearse specifically made violence the political norm from the time of the Rising all the way through the Good Friday agreement. My reading, however, seems to show Pearse as an cultural nationalist first, a republican second, and bloody revolutionary a distant and reluctant third- especially considering his origins as an educationalist.. Is there any way to reconcile these schools of thought? Am I completely off base? Thanks in advance; you guys are great.

As a side note, I get a BA in history this May, and look forward to continuing this marvelous journey down the paths of old. Maybe someday I'll be answering someone's question here. :)

Hi, I'm doing some revision on British Political History and cannot find the source of a quote I wrote down about the Peterloo Massacre of 1819.

The quote is: “You did not hear of the struggles. No, the media suppressed you.”

It's from a reformer/politician at the time but I'm having trouble finding out who and wondered if someone here might know?

For example Alexander's campaigns, or perhaps later like Hannibal's or Caesar's. The logistics of feeding those armies sort of confound me. These armies would march tens of thousands of soldiers for hundreds of miles over several years. With no refrigeration and salt pretty much the only known preservative, I can imagine such group of hungry men sucking the agricultural resources out of a 100 mile radius of wherever they are at a given time by procuring any and all food resources by force and perhaps some diplomacy.

1. How did they transport their food, tents, etc. Did each soldier wear a backpack when on the move? Or did they have dedicated transport wagons etc.? Did they carry around blankets, plates, and cups wherever they went? Or did they use something instead of plates like a cloth.
2. What kind of support staff did they have. For example were there dedicated cooks and servants that followed the army?
3. How often would they eat when on the move? What were the meals like?
4. Were campaign routes planned primarily around the acquisition of drinking water? Or was this never really an issue?

Thanks in advance.

I was watching a documentary on WWI. They make a very brief mention of there being two wars in the Balkans in 1912 killing over 200K. Do these wars have a name? I don't think I have heard of them.

Compared to countries such as Canada or Mexico, the percentage of the United States population identifying as Native American is much lower. To what extent can this be explained by Native Americans leaving the United States and settling in other countries? In countries such as Mexico, Canada, and Cuba, how large are the Native American populations of United States origin?

My fiancee asked this question and I am trying to figure it out but I am hitting a wall. I think that you would convert how much of a precious metal (gold or silver) that you could get with that much and then convert it to USD then but I am confused by the fact that the UK was on an unofficial gold standard at the time. Help would be appreciated.

I've read his two volumes on the Mediterranean in the 16th century, as well as his three volume "Civilization & Capitalism" series. I find his writing to be enthralling, and he analyzes economic and material life in a way that I haven't found anywhere else. I realize that his work is somewhat outdated at this point (and extremely eurocentric at that). I realize that many of his works are predicated upon the possession of a Eurocentric or Western perspective, but I would be very interested in seeing if there are any current historians who do similar things from a non-Western one.

Time travel has become really popular in modern science fiction and I was wondering if any cultures had time travel stories as part of their mythology. I'd imagine that the medium for time travel in such stories would be spiritual or fantastical rather than scientific, but I'm still curious to know how long humans have toyed with the idea of changing the past or traveling to the future.

I get the impression from all kinds of media that social taboos against sex outside of wedlock were quite strong throughout the 1800s. I'm thinking of examples from TV or movies where a couple might just go walking on their first several dates or where a touch on the hand or kiss on the cheek might be scandalous. I have two questions about this.

1. Is this romanticized? For example, were sexual mores actually a little looser than often portrayed in popular fiction and media? What would the social consequences be for someone who did engage in sexual activity pre-marriage?

2. If it's not romanticized, how did people deal with pent-up sexual frustration? Was visiting prostitutes common? Was there just a lot of masturbation?

Apologies if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find a relevant thread when I searched.

The Kinsey Reports are often credited as being the first large-scale scientific examination of human sexuality in the United States, and their release profoundly affected the ways that people talked about sex (as well as encouraging future sex research). But how bad was the state of sexual knowledge in, say, 1900 or 1925 among the average 16-25 year old? I assume that knowledge was gendered (men perhaps having more experience) and affected by class (working-class women perhaps had more experience than upper-class women?) but those are just hypotheses. In particular, is there any credence to the idea that people might get married as virgins but not really understand how sex worked?