After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, how long did it take for the general public to understand the severity of the crisis? The reason I ask is because this Connecticut Thanksgiving proclamation from 1929 seems to either ignore, or completely misrepresent the economic conditions to come. See State of Connecticut. By His Excellency John H. Trumbull. Governor. A proclamation
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They must have been exceptional scientists to have been able to stay ahead of the U.S for most of the time, so how were they rewarded for their hard work in a communist country?
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Not disputing that he was a soulless POS
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I was wondering how historians make a decision on the reliability of sources.
Is it that historians check and cross-check many texts and physical items related to their research then decide they have the most accurate representation using the sources they have access to at the time?
Is it impossible, or not recommended, to make a final decision that one source is completely reliable?
Side question: are there any examples (either confirmed or unconfirmed) of fictional sources being mistaken for historical fact?
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Why is the Texas Revolution called a revolution when it was more of a civil war? Texas at the time was a state of Mexico and the people in Texas had different opinions on issues such as slavery and government, much like the American Civil War. It was not the overthrow of government it was a war between citizens of the same country so shouldn't it be considered a civil war and not a revolution?
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spent the last two weeks looking and reading different sources and to be honest i am stumped on an answer. i thought i would try here and see if i could get a bit of advice
Regards PAC
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Why didn't the Canadian government, for example, immediately close their embassy and bring their diplomats home?
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Hello /r/AskHistorians, as the title states I am in my first semester of college, and though I have already registered for my next semester of classes, I am in need of some advice. The college I am currently attending is a local community college, and I am planning to get my associate's degree before I transfer to East Carolina University (which is the most viable university for me financially). After much thought, I decided that I would like to pursue a PhD after I have finished my Bachelor's. This stems from a long love for history, among other things (I even started college with 12 hours of history out of the way thanks to the two A.P. courses that were offered at my high school). My issue, however, lies with the best course to get to graduate school. East Carolina University offers two choices for undergraduate degrees in history, these being the B.A. in History and the B.S. in History, Secondary Education. While I understand that the B.A. is the best choice, as it does have a foreign language requirement, which is needed for graduate school, and it allows me to take more history courses. My issue however lies with my (perhaps irrational) fear that I may not be accepted to a PhD program (and more specifically the program at UNC-CH) and that I will need to find a job immediately after I graduate. This is where the B.S. in History Education comes into play. If I were to get the B.S. in History Education, I would (arguably) be able to get a job quicker to pay off any loans I may have from ECU. The issue of course is that I would need to take education courses, which prevents me from taking a foreign language, or majoring in a specific historical field. I would appreciate any advice in this matter, and I can provide any more information from my research as well as my current course plan if that will be helpful. I would like to thank everyone that replies to this thread in advance, as I have been lurking for sometime and I have seen how kind everyone is.
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I know there are some examples that could be called democracy during those 1800+ years, but it seems that almost all of Europe had a penchant for monarchy for a very long time, even after it had been a culturally stigmatized form of government since the 700s BC in Rome.
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The two teams both moved from the same market (New York) to the same state (California) in the same year (1957, I think). Why then are these two teams - similar in terms of the circumstances of their relocations - remembered so differently?
What are the underlying reasons that explain why the loss of the Dodgers is remembered so bitterly? Why is the loss of the Giants is more or less treated indifferently? Did it have anything to do with the virtues of Ebbets Field when compared to the Polo Grounds? Did the ethnic makeup of each team's fanbase differ? Did the effects of white flight and urban renewal in northern Manhattan as compared to Brooklyn play any part?
Alternatively, is Dodgers-nostalgia overplayed in contemporary culture? Did anyone actually care when they moved?
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https://szabadriport.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/palestine_partition_plans.gif
One of these is not like the other.
As I understand it, during the late 1800s, the ottoman government instituted a land registry covering Palestine. People who registered land would have to perform some kind of military service, and pay taxes on the land. Something that most people who had lived in the area for centuries saw as unfair, if they even knew about it at all. So then... it seems there was massive land fraud.
People would register land in the Ottoman land registry that they had no connection to, and that land would be flipped, and flipped, and flipped again, all without the knowledge of the people living on the land.
Then it seems that jewish groups would start buying up huge amounts of the most worthless land that nobody grew on or lived on. And, in some cases, developed that land. Kudos to them.
Now I assume, the repercussions of this late 1800s ottoman land registry was part of the cause of a lot of the turn of the century violence in Palestine. Suddenly all these people were claiming that they owned land because they had purchased it from people who had no connection to any part of palestine who were flipping these lots on the land registry.
But the jewish groups seem to have focused on the north. Even their very questionable claims on the land in the south amounted to less than 1% of the area, 2%, for instance, in Jerusalem I think. In the 30% range in some parts of the north, but less than 1% in all of the south.
So is this map accurate? Why do 3 of the plans not mark off land in the south for the Jewish state? Why does the UN partition plan mark a huge amount of the south for the Jewish state?
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Before the establishment of the BC/AD era separations, how did the rest the world tell what year it was. (Also how long did it take for the world to uniformly be this year across the world)
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Were they deliberately introduced? When did they arrive in the Miami area?
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By this I mean what happened to everything(Clothes, shoes, jewelry, toys, etc) after the camps were liberated?
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I have a fairly straightforward couple of questions here:
Is there any reliable, accurate literature about the fall of the Wendish temple fortress at Arkona to Archbishop Absalon's forces? I don't have any preferences on length, dryness, or entertainment value, I just want to know if anything reliably accurate has ever been published.
My second question is I want to know if there's any good reading about Absalon himself? All I can really find is information stating he lived, his name was Absolon, and he killed some Wends. This second question is also second in importance, it's just that my searching has made me super curious about him due to the lack of info I can find on him.
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Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzfmZC3kg3M
And one more question: Were the films in sepia, with colored filters, or were they in monocrome, with colored filters?
Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks!
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