I am looking for revisionism of history from the point of view of women.

I know that the north western part (what became West Virginia) of Virginia and many border states were indifferent to the Confederacy. But what about regions in the deep south? Did any counties or towns refuse to help the Southern cause?

If they did, when was the last "slave" discovered or freed? It seems like it would have been easy to either suppress the information about the war, it's outcome, and the law... and just keep your slaves for a good while.

I just watched The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (great movie, never got to read the book though) and when Bruno was meeting with Shmuel (8 year old boy in the camp) got me thinking what would small children do in the camps and what would happen to them. In the movie there were a couple of times Shmuel would exit the scene with a wheelbarrow, but the idea of a small child doing physical labor seems impractical.

Title says it all.

I recently watched an A&E biography that said over and over that he wanted to be famous. I've since done some searches online because I had never heard of that before. Many say that he was driven by the need for appreciation, honor, fame and the like. Where are people basing these claims and are they true?

There are pictures going about claiming that in the past, women gave birth while squatting, or sitting in a birthing seat. However, Louis' interest in the act had them lie down so he could get a better view.

The sources are questionable at best.

Is there any truth to this myth?

Some warm tropical civilizations I'm thinking of are Khmer, Aztec, Amazonian, Polynesian etc. Did any of them have any concept of what snow was since they most likely never saw any?

What/who decided it to be like this and not more practical with the inbetween year.

I was watching the games recently and thinking how many of the teams in the tournament have fought wars with each other at some point. But have two countries with open hostilities ever met in the tournament?

I finished HBO's Rome and there were three currencies used: Denarii, Drachma, and I think Egypt had a unique one. What would the exchange rates between these be? I know correlating currencies even 200 years ago is notoriously hard, but can you give me an idea of how valuable these would have been? (How much for an average day's food, how much to have someone killed, etc.)

It was supposedly close to almost perfect in its success rate. Was it real? How could it have gone FULLY extinct?

I only have a vague idea about this, but the timeline I have in my head regarding slavery in Europe was that it was a bustling institution during the Roman Empire, faded away going into the Middle Ages, and then came back again in a different, racially-based form going into the early modern era. Did it always exist in some form during all that time, but at lower levels? Why did it go away? Am I just thinking about it all wrong to begin with?

It seems the revelations it presents are too monumental and obvious to not be common knowledge. But I am wondering how much is true.