Please cite sources.

Im aware that may be a bit of an odd title, but I cant think of how else to put it.

The trojan wars are greek mythology according to wikipedia, but the city of troy exists, much like many of the places in greek mythology. What is to say there wasnt a war between the greek and trojans? Also is any of the spartan-athenian war true?

I love learning about the history of greece-asia minor but everything is so intertwined and some appears to be fable, which makes it hard to understand what actual went down.

Not really sure of the difference between greek and hellenistic, sorry if they mean the same thing.

I'm not really too familiar with the history behind the empire, since we never really studied it in school apart from the assassination of the Archduke before WWI. I'm not sure what the right word here is, but I think it's interesting that Austria has become a "successful" first world country while Hungary has not.

Did Marines fight in the Civil War? For which side? Any information on the subject would be appreciated.

Rowhouses are the dominant type of housing in the older sections of the Mid-Atlantic, from Alexandria, VA to New York City. In cities like Baltimore and Philadelphia, there are miles and miles of them. There are also large quantities of rowhouses in small towns like New Castle, Lancaster, Frederick, etc.

It's understandable why there aren't more rowhouses in the southern and western U.S. But why aren't there more rowhomes in New England? New England has some of the oldest cities in America. Like the mid-Atlantic, it developed an industrialized economy in the early- to mid-19th century. Boston is really the only exception. And even in Boston, they are confined to central neighborhoods like Beacon Hill.

I can only imagine naval combat with cannons or giant guns mounted on frigates and battleships. How would combat have worked before guns could be built? How would they damage other ships?

I'm specifically talking about historians in the Greek and Roman world, say 2,000 years ago.

Would most historians mention where they are getting their information?

Were historians who cited sources considered more reliable (or are they considered more reliable today, for that matter)?

How did they cite sources if they did?

-I'm asking because I've been arguing with people about the Book of Acts. I have been told that it is common and accepted to anonymously write fantastic, miraculous stories without mentioning sources. I am looking for more information regarding that time period and the practices of historians within it.

I have been reading James Mellon's Bullwhip Days and one of the interviews states that upon the end of the Civil War a man from the US army came to the plantation to inform the slaves of their freedom. It made me wonder that in cases where nobody came to inform the slaves of their freedom if the slaveholders would simply not inform the slaves and carry on, or perhaps even just force them to continue working anyway.

Were all white males allowed to vote in the US in 1800? What about those living in territories that weren't states quite yet?

Seems like it would've made more sense to go North into more fertile lands. Why did they wait so long to expand towards Gaul and Britain? Why didn't they try taking over Europe first?

I've often wondered if languages like French and German, that have a governing body, would evolve as much, or potential even more, than the English language has.

It seems like Australia has a lot more in common with Great Britain than Canada does.

Accent although different is still much closer to British than the English spoken in Canada and phrasing of words is similar.

I have read that during the 1920s the LGBT community flourished in Europe with the opening of clubs such as Eldorado in Berlin and Le Monocle in Paris. Was this really the beginning of the acceptance of LGBT people, or were they still heavily persecuted? What was life like for them then? How did it change from the 1920s to the 1940s (did their persecution in the war must have seriously undermined any real beginnings of change)? How did LGBT life in Europe compare to that in the USA during the same time period?

I realise it's a pretty loaded question, so any books you could reference me would be extremely useful. Thank you so much!