From what I gather Minutemen were militiamen mostly employed in a disruptive role instead of traditional battles. Does this make them the first good examples of guerillas?

I'm a master's student in the beginning stages of my thesis. I study the 19th century American South, particularly West and Central Alabama. I plan to take a microhistorical approach. I've read The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg, and am about to start The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis. Are there any other seminal works you would recommend? I'd especially like to read an American microhistory, though I know the format wasn't used as widely by Americanists.

Were whipping boys real? How about whipping girls for princesses? How were royal children punished? Who punished them?

Here I am asking about conventional warfare, such as the Six Day War and Yom Kippur War. According to Wikipedia, the casualty counts are as follows:

Six Day War: Israelis: <1000 killed, 4500 wounded Arab States: ~25,000 killed or wounded

Yom Kippur War: Israelis: ~2500 killed, ~8000 wounded Arab States: 8000-18000 killed, 18000-35000 wounded

What accounts for this disparity? Doctrine? Training? Experience? Equipment?

Were all of the local governors and emirs evicted? Did the new rulers make an effort to convert the populace? Did they marry into the local powerful families?

Or did they simply move on to the next battle or town to keep fighting?

Hey there /r/askhistorians.

Some background on this rather specific question: My significant other (A communications Ph.D. student with an interest in history) is working on some historical research at the moment. She's working on a piece looking at how the daily newspapers in New York City covered the topic of death, especially on the front pages, in 1904.

So far, it's been some really interesting stuff. For example: one paper covers the death of a homeless German immigrant found frozen in an ally in January as a novelty due to the fact he had mysterious injuries to the back of his head and a curious note in his pocket, while another paper hardly mentions it as yet another homeless man dying in the cold.

She's running into an issue though: She cannot find hardly any information on who the publishers or editors were for the New-York Tribune or The Sun in 1904. She asked me to help, so I scoured through my pile of media history books, but I cannot find anything. Because I know of your power here on this sub, I figured I'd try my luck asking y'all.

There's loads of information about the New Journalism era from 1870-1900, and there's tons of info on the death of the media baron properties in the 1920s and 1930s (When Greeley, Day, Hearst, and Pulitzer were all either dead or no longer in the publishing business).

But as hard as I try, I cannot find anything about the ownership and daily operations of those papers: The Sun and The New-York Tribune, for 1904.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thanks ahead of time!

If it was only royalty and their servants I would assume the number of mummies would be quite small.

Also, when did the practice of mummification fall from popularity?

The Industrial Revolution, The French revolution,

Russian or American are early examples of the seriousness of the word. Now, looking through my library I find titles such as

Voices of the food revolution : you can heal your body and your world--with food! / John Robbins and Ocean Robbins

Revolution 2.0 : the power of the people is greater than the people in power : a memoir / Wael Ghonim

The autism revolution : whole-body strategies for making life all it can be / Martha Herbert, with Karen Weintraub

The leaderless revolution : how ordinary people will take power and change politics in the twenty-first century / Carne Ross

The scientific revolution / by Don Nardo Nardo, Don, 1947-

Revolution in a bottle : how TerraCycle is redefining green business / Tom Szaky

The retail revolution : how Wal-Mart remade American business, transformed the global economy, and put politics in every store / Nelson Lichtenstein

Jamie's food revolution : rediscover how to cook simple, delicious, affordable meals / Jamie Oliver ; photography by David Loftus and Chris Terry

Pictures at a revolution : five movies

and the birth of the new Hollywood / Mark Harris

Hey guys, I remember seeing this question somewhere and thought it was a pretty interesting question. I personally believe that the CCP were fully responsible for the outcome of the war because if it was not for the determination of Mao, the attitude and discipline of the soldiers and the exceedingly successful guerilla warfare tactics they would have been crushed by the might of the GMD soldiers.

I am looking for a comprehensive history of the Russian Civil War. In particular I am interested in the Siberian Intervention and other happenings in the Far East and Transbaikal. I have a very limited knowledge of Russian history so something that doesn't require a lot of pre-requisite knowledge would be most helpful. Can anyone point me some good starting resources? An easy to digest book would be great.

It seems to me that while the press gang could certainly grab you, and you might be forced to sea, what is stopping a sailor from jumping ship the first port they call into? And assuming they didn't want to desert in a foreign port, at the very least, could impressment be relied on to provide a sailor who would't be gone after his first voyage? Or was it, many impressed men already being accustomed to the naval life style, most were just fatalistic and accepting of their new lot in life?

The song I'm thinking of is called Good old Rebel and contains lines like "I hate the yankee nation and everything they do, I hate the Declaration of Independence, too!"

I realize many southerners despised the federal government, but did some actually come to hate the very idea of the United States and even the symbols of American democracy? I was under the impression that the Confederates considered themselves the equal heirs of the founding fathers' legacies, so this is a bit strange to me.