The rape account came from a professor... an education professor, which means I take it with a huge grain of salt. I want to know what real academics who specialize in the field have to say.

It's been said that the reason Bud, Millers and Coors rose to US power because of the number of breweries that couldn't survive prohibition. Canada never had a prohibition of that scale, so smaller breweries wouldn't have been driven out.

I've heard the lack of competition after prohibition also allowed the standard BMC-style of beer to take off, is there an argument saying why the Canadian lagers seem the same?

It seems like in most cases(at least, that I know of) where a population is conquered by foreigners for a long period of time, the local language survives either intact or mixed with the conqueror's language. For instance, English is heavily influenced by French, but still Germanic. Russian is Slavic even though the Kievan Rus was established by Vikings. French, Spanish, and Italian are all romance languages, even though the Franks, Visigoths, and Lombards were Germanic. Why didn't the same thing happen to Greek?

I recall after 9-11 there was a spike in hatecrime against anyone who looked even vaguely middle eastern or Muslim, such as Sikhs, Hindu, etc.

I assume it could only have been much worse in an era with more limited exposure via media and education, but I've never actually seen anything on the subject.

Edit: say not day. Damn...

In the West. Currently, the received practice (it seems to me) is to speak of the 1950s with a sneer, as if this were a byword for a dark age that represented everything bad (rightly or wrongly). This is the only attitude I have ever really known. I was wondering if there were any social historians on reddit who could explain when or how that came to be. Did liberals in the 70s sarcastically mention the recent fifties in order to denigrate something? 80s? Was there ever an age of 50s nostalgia, like when Back to the Future was made? Was it ever a widespread idea to the think of the 50s as a safer and more wholesome time?

BTW, I know that there are good and bad things to be said about the 50s; the only thing that concerns me here is how people afterwards looked back on that time.

Sorry if this is too recent social history or otherwise an incorrect use of /r/askhistorians.

More specifically their reverence for the ancient Jews of the Old Testament? I've heard of various way to weasel out of this, such as claims that the Jews of the Old Testament were really actually white and not the same race that are called Jews today. I've also heard of people just flat out rejecting the Old Testament or Christianity in general because of it being "tainted" by judaism, but what was the common way of thinking about this in medieval Europe when rejecting Christianity was not an option, 19th century style scientific racism was not in vogue, and anti-semetism was (from what I understand) almost universal (with exceptions)?

Also, lol at my auto correct for trying to change anti-semetism to anti-semisweet. Everyone knows medieval Europeans hated semisweet chocolate!

To get to the point, why wasn't John Adam (the nations first Vice and later second President) given the recognition as a vital founding father to the USA in the past two centuries? He seems to be given a higher regard by the modern historians and the public today, but seems to be a forgotten figure compared to his contemporaries (some of whom never held the Presidential Office at all e.g. Franklin and Hamilton).

His family name seem to still hold water as his son became 6th President. Did he not want attention or was he just not that popular?

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I’m mostly interested in when this became common among most people, rather than just the intellectual elite. Info from anywhere in the world would be interesting.

I understand that "throughout history" questions are generally frowned upon, but I'm wondering if the concept was known throughout the Western world at different times, and if it was seen as sincere fortune telling that might get you in trouble with the priest or just a goof.

And is there any good general source for a timeline of major inventions throughoutt history?

I have been getting extremely as instead by history as if late and was wondering how I can expand my knowledge of History.

There are several Byzantine threads already present on this sub, but none of them (that I read at least) could specifically answer this question. So, just what I asked in the title! In my own research, I have overwhelmingly only been able to find the names of imperial and noble families. Was the Byzantine Empire in that time period of civilization where people of lower station still didn't really have surnames, or used patronymics?

The Wikipedia article on it is pretty sparse and is full of [citation needed]. When was the ban instated and for what reason? (I understand it was an on-again, off-again thing). What was the effect of the law on the Chinese population in general and the population of coastal Fujian province in particular? How was trade conducted when the ban was in place? (I understand there were official government trade delegations as well as smugglers).

Looking at the competition between the USA and the USSR over the years, they seem primarily to focus their sports efforts in the Olympics in attempt to project each other's superiority during the Cold War.

However given the world prominence in soccer (football), why didn't they bother to develop strong teams to win the World Cup given the popularity of it around the world? Both the USA and USSR never won the World Cup or have really gotten close (excluding puppet or satellite states such as West Germany or Hungarian People's Republic).

Personally I feel like they put more investment into their respective Chess programs than in soccer...

I know many people choose the "rebel" flag, and I have done some research, but this flag does not represent southern heritage, or the confederacy as a whole.

I ask this, because I'm intend to get a tattoo that represents my fascination with the civil war (and American history), and particularly the confederacy because I had multiple family members that served on the Confederate side.

I don't want to be deemed a racist just because I want to memorialize my past. I realize that the civil war was mostly due to slavery issues, and I don't want anything that openly represents slavery.

Also, I watched the rebel yell video on the Smithsonian website and many Confederate veterans were waving the "rebel" flag in the 1930s video.

Tl;Dr - how can I accurately represent my family's history of fighting for the confederacy without looking like an ignorant person or a racist person?

Anyone have an accurate biography for JP Jones?

I'm wondering if there are any statistics about where the most people lived from 1000bc on wards. Even more specifically, is there a data file I could download somewhere?

Do they just update their maps and inform me of the 'good news'? Am i informed at all? Do they try make a treaty or just plain buy it from me, or do they just send in men with guns and claim it? If i agree, much autonomy do i get, and whats expected of me? What does becoming part of a major powers empire mean for my lands/people?