What was the context they were using?

This question is probably better phrased as how citizenship becomes defined in early U.S. history, but I am really interested in how the voting process has evolved in America. Have european male immigrants always had to go through a naturalization process before voting, or is that a more recent occurrence?

A friend recently used the service and discovered a 19th century ancestor from Scotland (via Jamaica). I thought that was pretty interesting, but the next thing they told me was that they were descended from the King of Norway. That's when I became a little skeptical of ancestry.com.

President Roosevelt served an extra half term when he took over while serving as Vice President when Truman was assassinated and he had to take over as president. Would it be possible for a Vice President, to in theory, serve infinite terms as president by continuously taking over when his president died/was assassinated?

I imagine that those who served in the prison camps were likely tried for war crimes, but what about those who fought the battles? Or those who were captured? Or the few who never saw combat?

-Did most of them abandon their ties to the army and simply try to return to their previous lives?

-Were all the POWs kept until they were deemed fit for release? Or were they handed over to the new German government?

-Did anyone seem unfit for release and detained indefinitely?

my girlfriend is convinced that America is alone in history as the only civilization to treat a specific race as slaves

I tried to explain that there is a massive amount of modern day slavery and she refuses to consider any of that slavery

and she thinks that nobody else has taken slaves of a specific race that was different than theirs, i think this is insanely unlikely, even if we can't tell the two groups (slaves, owners) apart

i wasn't able to think of any other historical examples of one color people indenturing another color

so can you provide me with some? and feel free to break down modern slavery to help me explain

Why werent they used ? in a war where neither side had a moral problem with killing millions of civilians and even use atomic weapons why hold back on chemical weapons ? after all the nazis used chemical weapons to execute the jews and others prisoners. why not use them to poison water supplies in cities with spies ? producing poison isnt really that complicated even behind enemy lines and wiping out a part of cities like chicago or dallas would sound like a smart tactic if nothing else then to terrorize and demoralize the enemy ?

Or for that matter, Cuba,Vietnam,North Korea or Laos's point of view regarding those matters? I'm asking because, in fact, those are the only remaining "communist" states, and throughout history communist states had an international agenda. Although I don't particularly consider them communist in any way; I'd rather consider Scandinavia closer to communism because of the bigger equality in earnings/property and the government redistribution of wealth.

Did the nazis lie to prevent their own soldiers from defecting or did the whole army know and simply not care?

We always here about the plebeians verse the patricians but what happened between them?

Hi AskHistorians!

I apologize if this sounds rather trivial. I'm sitting here and it is 7:30pm, I have an education annotated bibliography to complete and stuck at a particular point which I'm beating my head in to remember. Thanks to a good helping of video games and the jolly good fellows at my university bar, I'm behind by a good 2k words.

But I'm not asking about that.

This is my question, how did historians (and any other academic disciplines) do research and acquire journal articles before the technological wonders of the digital age?

For me it is startlingly easy. Just go to my university library's database and just type in some key words and I'm ready to complete an undergraduate essay without getting off my seat. The entire accumulated knowledge of the world is (not literally) at my fingertips.

How did one constantly get in contact with people from across the world and update about new discoveries and publications?

Just as the title says...

I was thinking about how dramatically the soldiers kit, appearance, armament, and even outlook changed over the course of WWI, and I was curious if other great conflicts had a similar trajectory.

Specifically... those French and English soldiers at the start and end of the Hundred Years' War... how different were they from one another?

What had been learned, traded, lost, or co-opted by the end of the conflict?

Cheers

When did it come to European cultures and when did it become more prevalent in Eastern (Asian cultures)? What was primarily used before this?