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I am a digitisation volunteer at a Local Studies archive (in the UK, hence the ‘s’ instead of ‘z’) and also an anthropology student researching the material culture and sensory experience of books/documents/texts and digital surrogates. Regarding the user experience of ‘original’ vs. digitised historical documents: Can a digital copy stand in for an original? If your answer is no, a digital surrogate can’t always do as an original, what is missing from the experience of working with a document that has been digitised? Anything else you may like to offer on the topic? Cheers

Or am I wrong believing that? Were there any restrictions at the beginning of Christianity? Even if that would be the case, why they weren't applied as rigorously as its counterparts?

In general, Canadian prime ministers are viewed as boring politicians compared with the characters and mythology created of American Presidents. Jefferson, Franklin and Washington all hold a revered place in the heart of political philosophy and intellectual thought, but what about Canada's Fathers of Confederation?

So I am currently doing my student teaching in a world history class and I was hoping AskHistorians might help me get a better sense of what life was like for traders and merchants traveling along the Silk Road (from all regions of the road). Are there any first hand accounts from people like this detailing their travels?

It made me wonder because i've read an article about Israel sending Mossad agents into Argentina to assassinate Nazi refugees and how tense the situation between Israel and Argentina must have been.

....or is this just because I'm an American? Like, for instance, does German academia condemn Nazi's, or do Italians condemn Mussolini?

As far as I know slaves took the last name's of their masters as their own last names, but were there really that Irish slave masters? Weren't most of the Irish in America poor and also discriminated against at the time? Or is there another reason for black people with names like Donovan McNabb and Shaquille O'Neal?

Hello /r/AskHistorians!

The title pretty much says it all.

I am turning to you, because you are far more versed in the ressources available on this topic.

I am located in Southern France, and while I'm willing to travel as much as my wallet will permit, I am more likely to be financially able to go to places around (Western) Europe.

As soon as the project will have more substance, I will make a budget and look for funding. I have a university scholarship that sponsors projects and might quite possibly fund this.

I assume all of the footage is going to be public domain already, am I correct?

If anybody is interested in helping beyond the footage, i.e., being a historic advisor, you're very welcome! The idea is fresh, and at the moment we only want to film the places and intercut for comparison, but some expert narration would definitely be helpful! If anybody is really interested, we could turn this into a mini-documentary.

Thanks in advance!

Let me explain what I mean: Yesterday I wrote 2013 on a bank slip. Future historians may mistakenly determine that the butterfly wing-flap that started the downfall of American civilization happened in 2013, not 2014, and all because of this simple screw-up.

Historians, have you ever come across a document that you doubt has the correct year listed because of this brain fart that many of us occasionally commit toward the beginning of a new year?

Even if its not about the Luftwaffe, but a particular pilot, I would like it too

Not sure if this is the right place for this question, but I've been doing some research about Japanese history and I was wondering about something I saw in Epcot. It was a statue of something called "The Slayer of Vanity", yet I can't find anything about it on the internet. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

I saw someone say Niall Ferguson isn't popular around here, but I listened to one of his books during a long car ride in 2012 & the most memorable part to me was the following:

The Spanish gave an elite few large estates with rights to whatever was produced on that land, even if it was produced by natives who already lived on that land, so most people had landlords who lawfully owned the fruits of their labor. Even most Spaniards who moved to the New World had serious hindrances to becoming land owners that their British counterparts did not face. The British primarily came over as indentured servants & after that period of servitude was over, they got land free & clear in amounts that individual families could develop. The British colonists had a much more equal start in the new world.

Niall Ferguson went on to say that these differences resulted in the British colonies having much lower inequality & much higher social mobility, which helped promote modern democracy & economic development in British colonies. The Spanish way of setting up New World colonies helped created more frequent conflicts, especially over land issues. In addition, this made it much more difficult for people in different colonies to work together, contributing to why there has never been a United States of South America.

I will focus on mainly WWII, while /u/an_ironic_username will focus mainly on WWI.