From what I've read it was fought on as many continents as WW1, yet doesn't have the distinction of being called WW#, what gives?

This thought was prompted by seeing descriptions of the new "America First Caucus" as a nativist movement. While true to the meaning of the word as it's used, it struck me as a strange word to end up with this meaning considering just how non-native to the US anything "Anglo-Saxon" is.

I work with the Connecticut Witch Memorial to exonerate witches posthumously. We currently are presently working to try to research if the courts in Connecticut Colony were illegal and if they actually had the authority to try capital cases such as witchcraft. I ask this because CT was a British colony when the trials occurred (1640's) and years before the CT witch trials, spectral evidence was dismissed in English courts. How was a colony able to convict and hang witches when England no longer accepted spectral evidence? Were these trials even legal?

In modern times we often think of Irish/Scottish/English folklore and mythology as being a prominent part of everyday life in the past. Banshees, leprechauns, fairies, etc. Movies are made depicting folklore/mythology playing prominent roles in everyday life, books written showing the depth and richness of folklore/mythology for these respective cultures. Even making Irish soda breads we cut a cross to bless it, but also to let the fairies out.

Would the people of these cultures, let’s say between 1700-1800’s (a lot of my post are deleted for not giving a specific time period, but it can be any time period post-paganism/druids once Christianity spread) have thought much of this folklore/mythology in their everyday life or do we make more of it in modern times?

Do we exaggerate the significance of the folklore in the past where it was much less of a way of life back then?

Seems to me like the KGB had a prime opportunity after WW2 to start race wars or rebellions. They even had lots of black russians, who came to Russia from Africa on scholarships. Furthermore, Russians never colonized or participated in the slave trade, so they had that card as well.

How did the Japanese perceive their new found admirations?

Did they try to exploit it?

How did other Americans feel about it? Pre and Post war?

It wouldn't be too crazy I guess, but sandals don't seem that hard to make...

Are there any examples of famous orchestral composers lifting elements (with or without permission) of their compositions from other composers? Was there any similarities to the modern transactional nature of borrowing from an artist?

I'm not sure if questions like this fit this sub, but can anyone suggest any good books for leaning about what life was like in the Americas before Europeans arrived?

I've been reading up on military culture in ancient Rome and it feels like there's a lot of questionable punishments being employed. Of course I understand my modern sensibilities are probably influencing a lot of that assertion. Still it seems hard for me to see people just willingly killing their best friend(decimation) or just being beat severely cause they messed up in drill wouldn't cause some lingering resentment. So I guess the question is simple were there any examples of Roman soldiers (and by that I mean those that met the requirements to enlist in the legions free born, roman citizen, and all that jazz not auxiliary since those would necessarily have additional reasons to mutiny given they weren't romans.) mutinying in direct result of said punishments.

I've heard a lot about the impact of Operation Fortitude, and read books on double agents and fake armies, but I dont recall reading about when the Germans realized they had been fooled. Did they ever truly realize this? What was the German situation by the time they released the troops in Calais? Did this come as a sudden realization or was it a conclusion they came to gradually? Did they realize they were duped or did they think the Allies just re-worked their plans since Normandy landings proved successful? Was it a fait accompli by the time they realized it?

I hear about dukha tribes domesticating reindeer and riding them in Mongolia then why didn’t reindeer cavalry exist?

So how did Roman emperors get months named after them and what where they before, similar question with Nordic mythological figures on our days of the week and lastly how did this all amalgamate into the system we have today?

Is it so the fault of the western power at first that Germany remain divided until the Soviet were collapsing?

If they encircle it, that could have got them the city back, through attrition

Hello,

I'm a history student, i've almost finished my second year (i'm french so I don't really know how does it work in other countries) but next year I will have to look for a master. I am thinking of taking a research one to then maybe continue into that field. But I have multiple apprehensions, one of them being: Which speciality would I pick ? There are a bunch of subjects or periods that interest me more than others, but i can't really imagine myself studying these for so long. For example I really like to learn about the period right after the first world war, but after a few months I feel like I'm already kinda "full" if i can put it like that. I know the work that historians do is completely different than how i personally learn, I'm mainly reading and taking notes, when historians do that but also investigate. But i don't feel like there are any subject as large or as specific as it can be that would suit me for a very long period of time, even one that would interest me long enough to write a thesis.

So i wanted to know how did you find the subject that you're currently working on ? Is it a subject you always knew you wanted to work on? Or is it something you found out about later? How long do you think you can study and work on one subject ?

Of course I know that I still have a lot of time before having to choose anything, and thanks to the french system I can easily try things, so I'm asking by curiosity more than by necessity.

I hope this post fits this sub, I'm sure I already saw someone posting a similar question but unfortunately i didn't find it back. And of course I'm not a native english speaker I hope I didn't butcher this language too much.

Thanks in advance