I am a history major and I read all the sources I am given but can never grasp what the big picture is. I remember all the details of what I read, but when I go to class I get lost because I can never seem to put the pieces together of what the social implications of whats going. For instance we read up on Birmingham the other day and I knew what happened but I didn't read between the lines. When I read I didn't see that there was a struggle for control of protests between organizations. I knew that was going on, but I didn't see it in what I read.

Sorry if I don't make sense, at work typing while looking behind my shoulder.

Please help, I want to be an excellent attorney someday, that's why I chose this major. But I seem to fail at the most important aspect of law and history, reading comprehension and analysis.

I don't think that it was an accident, but in my history class we recently watched "Dead In The Water". My teacher has assigned the class sides of the story and we're going to have a debate, and I was assigned pro-Israel. I cannot find any hard evidence showing that it was truly an accident, but I have to stay with my side.

I have heard some rumours about Lincoln's negative opinion about the Native Americans. Unfortunately, neither Wikipedia articles nor other Reddit posts couldn't enlighten me on this particular topic. Maybe I should have searched and read more carefully but I still would like to ask my question here in the hope you will help me.

As the title says, has Japan ever gone through a "Dark Ages" similar to Europe? In addition to Japan, has there been a time period like this in Southeast Asia? Thanks in advance!

April 30th was apparently the fall of Saigon. I always wondered what happened to South Vietnamese in the city after the fall. My impression is that there was great clamor for Vietnamese to get visas and escape to the U.S. Were those left behind subject to great prosecution, or just party officials, or were they all pardoned? Did the quality of life plummet?

I've read about how poorly Italian immigrants were treated in the US, but did it apply to all Italian immigrants?

AFAIK, there are no temples dedicated to Hades. But with death being such a key part of Ancient Greek culture, I cannot imagine one of the big three gods being so ignored.

Is this book a trustworthy source?

Recently occurred to me when i looked in the mirror this morning when i noticed that without my glasses i look like i plan to murder some-one's first born child. With them i look like a regular human being. I also recall that apparently 70% of Asians will need glasses or some other vision correcting method and was wondering if the stereotype could be attributed to an inherent genetic trait.

Unless it was a deliberate attempt at propaganda and highly focusing and emphasizing certain physical traits

I often hear that concentration camps were also intended for homosexuals by Hitler. How were they finding them out? I would think that whoever was homosexual back than wouldn't manifest themselves openly.

I have no clue why conventional wisdom holds that Jewish people built the Pyramids of Egypt, when in fact, the oldest portion of the OT was written almost 400 years after the most recent pyramid.

This isn't intellectually honest or sound to explain history like this. Perhaps a people from East of Egypt - modern day Israel and surrounding areas - were enslaved to build the Pyramids (or a pyramid) as were people to the South and West of Giza. And the narrative that Jews built it came many centuries later.

There's supposedly some heiroglyphs of Jewish babies being fed to aligators in Egypt, and we know that they're Jewish because they are circumcised. However, even the Egyptians were circumcising their males!

Please give me your opinion or insights to this matter.