My history project is to create an extended essay answering the question 'was the Weimar Republic doomed from the start?'. I'd like to have as much variety in sources as possible, so could somebody please send a reading list of books? I'd prefer PDFs but thank you in advance!

In all seriousness though. How did whalers in before the 1900 not set their ships on fire while processing the whale blubber while at sea?

Considering how much the Confederacy was focused on getting international recognition, were there similar attempts by the Taiping?

I read that Iraq's Scud missile attack on Israel in early 91 was in an effort to divide the coalition which included several Arab and pro-Palestinian nations. While it ultimately failed, how effective was this strategy? What shape did the effort to keep the coalition together take?

I'm reading a book about the rise of Europe to power and it mentions that armenian traders received a large sum of money as compensation after the British conquered the Bengal Delta. I never heard that armenians were so widespread in India and relatively important. What are the facts behind this mention?

As the title suggests, is there a backstory as to why she was called Nene? I ask so because all her former names(Nene, One, Nei) seem to be written without the use of Kanji characters.

I read they learned about stuff like the theory of teotl medicine where the fluctuation of teotl in the universe causes certain organs to act different, and other things like herbal medicines but nothing on where or how doctors are trained or why they were seen poorly.

If doctors truly needed schooling and Aztecs placed high value on education to the point public schools existed, why were doctors so disrespected? Is it tied to their training?

I'm curious what kind of efforts are put into this with so many sources that are also mutable. We have news agencies silently updating articles, tweets being removed, entire forums closed down, etc. How much active effort is put into preservation? How is the scope of what is recorded determined? Who funds these efforts? I guess these questions are more about contemporary history in general, but I presume the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic has put some emphasis on recording this historical period.

In the film “Barry Lyndon” the narrator states that the Prussian military had native Prussian officers but most of the grunts were made up of criminals, drifters, mercenaries and scoundrels from every nation in Europe. The main character of the film, Redmond Barry, was an Irishman serving in the British army who was forced into the Prussian army when they caught him deserting. This goes against my pre existing idea of what the Prussian military was like, I was under the impression that it was ethnically homogenous with everyone speaking German. Is this true or was it made up for the movie?

The Greek philosopher Epicurus apparently said this:

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

The Greeks at the time believed in the ancient pantheon, not the Christian God, so under what context could he have referred to a single, omnipotent god?

It's normal for philosophers to make responses to the works of other philosophers, but not by writing novels as far as I know

This is weird, right?. Today we agree that novels can help convey a philosophy but they are not philosophical treaties. If you want to write about philosophy you do it directly

For example Zizek is a successful philosopher who writes a ton of books but none of them are novels and no one responds to him by writing a novel

What happened in Russia at the time for people to use novels like philosophical treaties?

Also, does the chain I presented continued?, were other novels written in response to "Notes from the Underground"?, was something writen in response to those responses?

So in table top roleplaying games you have a party of adventurers who travel from place to place and complete quests. They explore dungeons, hunt down monsters, and sometimes just go around killing and looting everything they find. (Refered to as "Murder Hobos")

Was there instances in the past of people who teamed up with others and traveled as adventurers and completed quests?? Or would this simply be covered as people who are mercenaries?

Hi, thanks for taking a look at my post.

On another website, someone made the claim that "up until the 1800s gay people were burned at the stake".

I find this claim dubious and said as such. That said it did make me wonder, so I am asking the historians of Reddit. Is there any substance to such a claim?

And for the record, I have no problem with people of any orientation, just curious whether this person is as wrong as I think they are. Thanks in advance for any answers.

I recently saw a popular post titled "The Māori: the indigenous people of New Zealand", and it made me wonder about that word. At first, it seems like we use it for first human settlers of some region, but I don't think people would say "The Vikings: the indigenous people of Iceland".
So is this term just popular, or political, or historical?
Is this a term only applied to non-european cultures? Or only to cultures that are first settles, but are no longer dominant? Is it paternalistic? Does it have legal ramifications for recognition of property rights?

I was wondering why you don’t see civil war pictures that really show the horrors of thousands upon thousands deceased soldiers on a battle field. If you do see a picture it’s a handful of fallen soldiers. Was it considered morally unacceptable or unethical or was it access issues with photographers ? I don’t necessarily want to see these pictures, but I feel what we do have doesn’t remotely show the scale of the horror and carnage a post battle field looked like. Thank you.