I am aware of the basic history of the strategic bombing campaign over Western Europe, but I am interested in some of the specifics. As always I'm especially interested in sources. So:

Did they adopt different strategies?

Were they ever at odds with each other about what targets to attack, how and what with?

How true is it that the 8^th Air Force operated during the day whilst Bomber Command operated at night?

If approaches were different, was one notably more accurate than the other and what methods were adopted to improve accuracy?

How effectively were joint operations, such as OVERLORD, co-ordinated?

Was targetting civilians a deliberate aim, or simply an unfortunate by product?

It is one of the most famous Olympic moments in the USA and the American team was treated like heroes, but I am wondering what the response was to the Soviet national team losing to the huge underdogs.

Because I literally had not known what the Paris commune was, despite its repeated reference in communist literature and thought later on, until this past year.

Why haven't historians or scientist or any type of architects try to build a Ziggurat, Pyramid, Colosseum, Pantheon Etc.? Why can't we recreate it? Without those structures remade we just have 3D models and we can't actually see and feel how these great structures were made. There's a difference hearing how the pantheons dome was held up and actually seeing it.

I've recently been playing a lot of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, where sea shanties sung by your crew make up a vital (if likely sometimes anachronistic) part of the audio landscape.

It made me wonder about the history of sea shanties. Do they have a distinct lineage? Were they a global practice or a culturally specific one? Until how recently were they still common aboard a ship?

I'm currently reading the book "World without end" by Ken Follet and he mentions that the local bishop gave the nuns authority to perform the sacrament of confession and last rights do to the massive number of priests who died do to the plague. Is there any truth to this or was it all made up?

I've been looking a lot into this recently, and have read quite a lot about the compulsory examination and treatment regimes for syphilis, as well as the use of missionary-trained midwives as a way to spread Christian moral attitudes throughout the country. I've also read about the use of Ssengas - paternal aunts - as a form of sexual guide for young Ugandan women, and their custom of 'visiting the bush', which is a way to elongate the labia minora in order to improve sexual pleasure for women. I was wondering if you guys could give me any more directions to look on this topic, any particular sources or articles that you think are interesting or relevant, or have any opinions or information on this topic generally. I realise it's not a particularly specific question but I'm interested in the topic fairly broadly, so was just wondering what you guys might be able to throw out there.

Thanks! :)

I'm conducting research on Jean Lafitte. Particularly on his life up to and including the Battle of New Orleans. To any historical experts out there... What is the best historical book out there on this legendary pirate? Thanks!

On the Sumerian King List Ubara-Tutu is listed as the 8th (and final) king before the great flood. However, on another source I read that Ziusudra was the 8th antediluvian king of Shuruppak. So are they both the same person with different historical names (Similar to Ea [Akkadian] and Enki [Sumerian]) or are they actually different people? And if they are the same person, what is the more common name?

What do we know about lesbianism in society in Ancient Greece?

In reading several histories of Rome and especially of The Second Punic War, one of the big things at Zama was that Scipio had developed a sound method for defense against Hannibal's elephants. However, none of what I've read has mentioned what tactics those were. Can someone give me a rundown of how he did it?

I've been reading A Connecticut Yankee.

I'm very curious about Japan's unification period, but I'm having a hard time find just general information books. Please give me your recommendations. Thank you.

We all hear what happened 1940-1945, but what about the years following? This may be a broad question, but thinking about it, I've never heard of anything that takes place in the late '40s. It could be anything - international relations after the war, technological advancements, cultural changes... just something.

Cross post from /r/askhistory where it received a lot of upvotes but no answers.

Before the Korean War, there was no concept of a North or South Korea. Although they were under Japanese imperial rule for several decades, they still had an identity as a united people. So how, from 1945 to 1950, did the North Korean government convince their people that they needed to go to war with their brothers and sisters (quite literally) to the South?