For instance Sacramento for CA, Springfield in Illinois, Albany in NY etc

Have women always kept their hair long? When did men start cutting their hair short?

I'm thinking the destruction due to trench warfare would be pretty total, at least in the short term, and someone must've owned the land.

Was there a widespread policy for this? Did the Germans have to pay it as part of their reparations?

As the title says, what sorts of things would the sailors aboard an ironclad-era warship (specifically mid-1880s if it's too broad otherwise) be expected to do on a day-to-day basis? How would they be organized, in terms of gun crews versus engine crews versus whatever other sorts of specialized crews they might have? I'm interested in pretty much any nation of the time, if there would be differences between them in that respect. Thanks!

To what degree do we have evidence that politicians actually feared the the spread of communism/wanted to spread democracy for ideological purposes compare indications of to economic motivations?

It has been claimed that Armenia was the first nation to officially identify as a Christian nation in 301 AD, but unfortunately I know very little of Armenian religions/mythology that came before this transition.

As an Armenian-American, we were always told that the people of Armenia were pagans/fire-worshippers prior to Christianity (which I suspect is just a catch-all term). Could anyone shed some light on religion in pre-Christian Armenia/Cilicia?

It seems like a joke that came with a bunch of stereotypes, not an actual occurrence. Did smoke signals ever exist in any form? If not, where did the myth come from?

I've recently really gotten into reading about colonial/napoleonic/etc history (book suggestions welcome please, Im reading Merchant Kings now) and Europeans have had a lot of cavalry traditions from the medieval knights to hussars and cuirassiers and spahis and so on. In Western films there's the trope of being saved by the cavalry (and horsemanship in general is a big part of the cowboy mythos, so it's kind of an old American value), but I've also seen mention here that one of the reasons the Civil War was so bloody is because Americans were using Napoleonic tactics without the cavalry arm that Napoleon used.

Did America ever have a cavalry with a fancy special name or traditions? It would also be cool to hear some battles American cavalry were important or notable in, so I could look them up.

I just read on the german wikipedia article of Bavaria that their King at the time (Ludwig III) wanted to make Bavaria bigger by annexing. Is there any clue what exactly he wanted to annex incase germany won?

I'm just curious what the career options are (apart from professors, curators) for somebody who has university degrees and doctorates in history.

Conversely, are there any similar career options for people who weren't educated formally in history but have a deep personal interest in a subject?

I am not studying an organised history course and it is not part of my job. I don't have deadlines for my studies so I'm not really asking about how to read about a subject quickly.

I find while I'm reading books that I end up with a desire to make notes about what I'm reading. I might want to make a note of a name or dates to help me to better understand the order of events. I often want to look into something that is mentioned as a throwaway comment or footnote in more detail.

Do you have a system for making those notes? Do you use software to help organise them or just a paper notebook?

I don't necessarily mean high ranking Nazis, but anyone who would have certainly been tried and imprisoned/executed for their part in the war/Holocaust.

I've been vaguely aware of the idea of enclosure, primarily in reference to the creation of modern property systems and loss of land rights among the peasantry, leading to the large labour pool that contributed to the Industrial Revolution. But I don't know much about why it happened at all. Who were the driving force behind it? Cui bono? And why did it happen when it did?

In a debate someone made the claim that when the ACA required a purchase to opt out of purchasing healthcare that it was the first time in American history that has happened. I'm wondering, is that true?

I cant afford grad school, got married meant losing FAFSA.

I have volunteer XP working in an asian art museum and an international high school. Also, taking a class this quarter where my capstone is creating a local history exhibit at the historical society.

I speak intermediate Japanese and basic Spanish.

That is it really...

I've been watching some older movies lately and have always been curious as to why actors and actresses of that time sounded so different than we do today. And was that accent just a movie thing or did everyone sound like that?