I'm referring to when the divide became very prominent between Afro-american and Continental African cultures.

I'm currently reading Churchill's History of the English speaking peoples. I'm enjoying it for the most part since I'm a fiend for English history but one think that I don't remember coming across in my undergraduate course was the de Heretico Comburendo.

Churchill says that >[i]n 1401 a terrible statute, De Heretico Comburendo, condemned relapsed heretics to be burnt alive, and left the judgment solely to the Church, requiring sheriffs to execute it without allowing an appeal to the Crown."

It seems that Henry relinquinshed a very important right that the previous Kings had fought to keep. Furthermore, it seems that it is very foolish to do that since, in theory, couldn't He himself be accused of heresy (this being around the time of the Lollards) and that the archbishop would be the only one to rule on his fate?

Why would Henry have done this? What advantage does it give him?

Massive Edit: Henry IV, not V. Thanks to r/Rittermeister for pointing it out.

Was the term "Jim Crow Laws" used during the actual legal discourse of the time? Was is a blanket term used by the people who lived when the laws were still enforced? Or was it a term that was dubbed when looking back upon the set of laws to group them. If the term was not created by historians, which side used to term? Was it pejorative?

I read the Wikipedia article and I was surprised how often there were rebellions and how much it upset the state, I know Europe had its fair share of revolutions and unrest during this period and its obviously comparing apples to oranges to some extent, but did the Qing have more or less common and severe unrest?

It was non aligned, but as far as I know the Iron Curtain was made as a physical way to prevent people from crossing to the West. Did Yugoslavia let people cross to the West through its territory?

I am writing a paper on the Sons of Liberty and the biggest question I have is when do the Sons of Liberty stop existing? Are they just the colonists that caused the early riots against the stamp collectors and the Tea Party, or did they go all the way through Lexington and Concord and the Battle of Bunker hill until the Declaration of Independence. I know the Loyal Nine were a specific group of people with known members, yet there is no set group of names for the Sons of Liberty. Can it be inferred that first and second continental congresses were run by Sons of Liberty? Was the Declaration of Independence written by Sons of Liberty? Were the minutemen also considered Sons of Liberty? When do the Sons of Liberty stop being Sons of Liberty and start being just revolting colonists?

Whilst the Japanese civil war period seemed to produce many storied and prolific figures that have been recorded over the following centuries, Oda seems to be the one responsible for laying the foundations of the nation's eventual return to peace and order, even if his murder resulted in an arguably more conservative and autocratic society until the Restoration.

However in today's Japanese pop culture, he seems all too often to be portrayed as a cackling, facial hair twirling villain, rather than a Bismarck or Washington-like figure revered for leadership and statesmanship. Manga artists are particularly guilty of using him as a played-out stereotype villain over and over.

Does anybody have some insight into this particular figure from history being depicted in this way? Are there any biographies on the man that down-play the largely positive wikipedia entry on him and elaborate on some of his character flaws that might not be familiar to a non-Japanese member of society?

Where the Jews slaves in Egypt?

I've heard people arguing that Belarus is closer to how Lithuania used to be in times of the Grand Duchy and as a part of the Commonwealth. In one of his videos, Norman Davies also said that the official language of the Duchy was Ruthenian. What would then be the place of the predecessor to the Lithuanian language and culture as we know them today in the Duchy?