I want to know the details of how they lived in the medieval times. I know that Louis XIV had made the nobles live in a castle with him so he could be the absolute power and watch over them, but I really don't know much besides that. I'm interested in this and would like to see some specifications.

My completely unsubstantiated guess, as an American, is that it's just an uncomfortable political issue, because some demographic is going to see it as an anti-American red flag. There's nothing for a politician/civil servant to gain.

I have been arguing with a couple friends regarding a story we been reading. And my question is, in medieval Europe, was there ever a pseudo-social contract between Lords and serfs?

For example, if a rival lord launch an attack on Lord A's lands, would Lord A be obligated (morally or legally) to protect his peasants?

I guess what I am trying to ask is quite a few people claimed that a Lord is more like a Land Lord who collect rent from peasants who live on the land, and peasants pay taxes in the process.

I seem to remember the peasants work to pay for protection from bandits and other lords, So who is right?

I've heard this several times: that the rate of death in many wars is much lower than it should have been considering the level of skill of the combatants, the accuracy of the weapons and the rate at which they fired.

Is it true, and if so, what was done about it? Were the remedies effective? Was it more common in one war than another, or among certain nation's troops?

I am aware that there's some statistic about Vietnam, where the number of bullets per kill was in the thousands, but in that case I am under the impression that factors like extensive suppressive fire and the difficulty of actually hitting a target in dense jungle environments would skew that. I'm talking about soldiers choosing not to aim at enemy combatants when given an option to aim at them.

I was just wondering because after seeing the failures of military aid by the United States in the Afghan War 1989 coming to bite the US in the ass currently, when in somewhat recent times (I understand /r/AskHistorians time limitations) has military aid from one country to another worked since the 1950's?

Also how did people find out different lifts? Some seem kind of natural like squats but coming up with things like deadlifting are hard for me to wrap my brain around.

this popped in my head in the bus this morning, was there any other time system? how was it?

A friend of mine claims that the holocaust is not entirely true, and it was not just the Jewish that were killed. I googled for a bit and the only things I find are conspiracy theories. Would someone care to clarify. Thank you for your time.

It's been between -10 and -30 here in Wisconsin for the past week. How would Native Americans survive?

Hollywood seems obsessed with this idea from James Bond to Captain America and more. Do they have a historial precident that they're drawing from, or is this just a popular fictional device?

EDIT: Thanks for all the replies and good info!

I've asked this before and gotten some good responses, but as the anniversary gets closer I'm hoping some new ideas and resources have come up.

Are there any radio news sources available to listen to? Preferably short 5-15 minute highlights. Or easily accessible newspaper headlines and articles?

In one of my classes today my professor briefly mentioned that Henry Ford had used people in concentration camps to build Ford cars. My understanding was that he had done so because he was a Fascist or Nazi sympathizer and he was incredibly anti-Semitic and wanted to take advantage of a cheap labor prospect.

So my question is basically is this all true? On top of that question,

• Did Americans know about this?

• Did he (and along with other America First members) publicly go against the war for their own personal benefits?

• Was his support of the regime in Germany the reason he was awarded the Iron Cross?

• Since he wrote The International Jew, how was he regarded by the Nazis and Hitler?

• Even though it is an American company, did Nazi Germany continue to support Ford Motors throughout their war with the USA?

Sorry for all the questions I am just very curious and some clarifications would be really great !

Hello, currently considering two options for my undergrad thesis in one of either of these two topics. It does require us to use primary sources, and I was just looking for the direction to go to finding those sources. The rules didn't say anything about asking questions for sources, and I'm not asking for any interpretations, just the primary source material itself. I only know English and enough French to get by, and have no knowledge of how to read German or Russian, so was hoping maybe somebody in the sub may know of some English translated sources that I could go about either one of these topics.

What I have found for primary sources so far:

For the rape of women by the Red Army, I do know of A Woman in Berlin by Marta Hillers and I found an English account of 800 Days on the Eastern Front by Red Army soldier Nikolai Litvin in the library today.

For German counterinsurgency tactics I found some primary sources in the back of Matthew Cooper's The Phantom War.

Anyways, I'm just looking for more primary sources as finding secondary ones for both of these has been easy, but English translations of the primary sources not so much. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Also, how did this start? Arabic numerals write that as 26, is it a holdover from a previous language?