A lot of people have been angry and I don't really understand why.

As the title says, I am interested to know if the Romans accepted Black people. I ask this because I started watching Spartacus and kept asking myself the question. My friend says they most likely would have accepted Black people but I was hoping that you individuals here could enlighten me.

Ive heard it comes from burning the gays with the kingling that is used to burn witches, is this true?

A lot of people say that gender is a social construct. Why was this social construct built, and why did people feel like they needed it?

Hello! I am trying to put something together for the middle ages gift exchange, so any help would be appreciated. I would like to provide my match with more info than "I vaguely remember from tv/internet that.."

I do remember hearing a story about how peppercorns were so valuable that in Alexandria they would be counted out individually with tweezers.

I watched a documentary last night which described how the Jews in liberated concentration camps stayed on in the camps in the weeks after. The narrator said they had no homes to go to.

Were camp inmates offered their old homes to return to? If not, why not?

How were their confiscated homes allocated? Were they given to the homeless or to SS officers who could pull strings or another way entirely?

Earlier societies tended to be okay with homosexuality, what happened?

I've always wondered if the possibility of restraining the massive operations in the Pacific theater in light of the approaching reality of nuclear warfare was ever considered. As I understand, the islands assaulted by the allies were taken to prepare for an invasion of mainland Japan. Why did the allies expend such excessive resources and troops if they were already working with the nuclear option which could be used to bring Japan to its knees?

Disregarding the Russian front, U.S. intervention, etc. would Germany have been able to invade and take over Britain like it did France?

I guess I'm asking which nation was stronger in a vacuum during WW2

I'm designing a syllabus for a cultural history course on U.S. empire in the decades surrounding 1898, and I'm hoping for some help with primary sources. I'm looking for examples of "domestic" American culture being formed or influenced by imperial enterprises in the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, and/or Haiti.

An example of what I'm looking for would be the popularization of hula and slack-key guitar in the mainland U.S. a few decades after the annexation of Hawai'i. I'd pair that with indigenous-centered readings on annexation and a mainstream Hollywood silent film about hula.

I'd love to hear from Latin Americanists in particular -- does anything like this come to mind for your area? A dance or dish or song that swept the U.S. mainland in the wake of military activity in that place? Thanks!

I would like to know about the UK specifically, but if there are examples in Canada or Australia, etc, those would be appreciated also.

Did Soviet high command trust the East German army to fight other Germans? Was their primary role a reserve force?