What do you think, was there really historical person know as Jesus? What are the evidences?

Of course I know the Soviet Union had a lot of censorship, but how far did it go with fiction? No doubt a Soviet reader couldn't exactly walk into a library and pick up a copy of Animal Farm, but what about older classics? Would they be censored, or annotated to note themes that weren't kosher to the regime? Did modern works get published if they weren't found to be objectionable? Did it change significantly over the course of the Cold War (presumably post-Glasnost it would have, but before that)?

Simply was there a candidate that was not french, and that could have been choosen (He/She didn't die or reject), for the Swedish throne. This is something i have been searching around for but all the answers i have been able to find are various sorts of french people or August who died, and i am really interested to see if there was another option.

Hi I’ve recently been reading some literature on the Spanish Civil War and one thing I don’t seem to get is the difference between the 3 main nationalist groups. As far as I can tell they all seem to have the same basic beliefs (Anti-Communism, Anti-Liberalism, centralism, authoritarian, pro-Catholicism et cetera).

Follow up question, why isn’t Franco seen by most historians as a fascist? He seems to fit most of the criteria so why do most of the respected historians I read (e.g Antony Beevor) explicitly state wasn’t a fascist?

I've been looking at old scrapbooks from the 1920's to 1940's and it seems as if every little party or gathering was in the newspaper. Often in great detail such as bridal shower decorations and lists of attendees for people of modest means, vacations people took, and children's parties. Did the newspaper actually send reporters to these events, print what people called in, or did people pay to publish their "brags"? I've primarily seen this in small town papers.

While doing some light reading about Hardrada on Wikipedia, I noticed that the battle of Stamford bridge took place less than three weeks before the battle of Hastings. Is it reasonable to assume that the battle of Stamford bridge weakened the Godwinson forces enough to ensure their defeat at Hastings?

Hi guys, I joined community some minutes ago. I just wanna ask about the easy english books about Ww1 and ww2. As i am from Pakistan. It is difficult for me to read in english as I am developing reading habit.

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It is no overestimation to say that the intermodal container is enormously significant to the modern shipping industry. Before its widespread introduction, transporting break bulk cargo involved a lot of hard, time-consuming and expensive manual labor. What happened to the people employed to perform that labor? Did unions attempt to shut down or otherwise fight against the use of standardized containers for fear of these workers being out of a job?

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It doesn’t make sense to me that ironclads replaced ships of the line based purely on combat value so I’m looking for some clarification. An ironclad like the USS Monitor had 2 Dahlgren guns. A 1st rate ship of the line had hundreds of guns with larger shells. Armor is obviously a big plus, but it seems like ironclads were extremely under-gunned compared to older 1st rate sail ships. Was it just too expensive to build armored ships with similar numbers of guns to the older wooden ships?

Digging up old houses, landfills, and graves is an important source of historical knowledge, but how does one figure out where to look? Presumably it's not a question of digging at random, but what does an archeologist look for in a likely site good finds?

I can understand why neurosurgery didn't exist before the industrial revolution. But psychology? It's basically applied philosophy (technically all science is, but you know what I mean).

It's true that psychology relies on scientific elements like drugs and academical studies. But I can still see psychotherapy being practiced at a reduced level of efficacy in Rome or Athens. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for example is based on Stoicism which existed since the days of Greece.

Im talking about the same kind of youth panic we see in films such as the 1955 classic film, Blackboard Jungle, Rebel Without a Cause, Crime in the Streets, The Delinquents, High School Confidential, The Wild One and the 1957 Broadway musical, West Side Story. Where there actually youths getting in switchblade fights? Was the violence exaggerated? Or could we see violent upticks?

I was listening to an episode of a podcast called "The Rest Is History" about Elizabeth I and obviously th Armada has arisen as it was bound to. From a British perspective it's just sort of one of these landmark moments, and cements Drake's legacy as a naval figure and Elizabeth as Gloriana in people's minds. But how much if at all is it known in Spain, how is it approached in Spanish history and so on?

Before I get eyed with suspicion: I personally have zero doubt that German government under the Nazi's organised killing factories that inflicted unspeakable horror and many millions of deaths.

So of course it got my goat at a recent party when a friend of the host began talking about "exaggerated numbers" and how the allies supposedly played up German war crimes of WWII while underplaying their own.

The latter thing is most probably true, but he was using it to imply a fictionalisation of the killing factories.

One thing he said got me curious: he said that after liberating Auschwitz, the Russian occupiers rebuilt parts of it. He was implying that the reconstruction was ordered in an allied attempt to create either a myth of mass-murder, or exaggerate the number of the murdered.

I'm just wondering where he got this idea from.

Does anyone know about Russian construction/reconstruction of parts of Auschwitz after the liberation of the camp?

If this happened - what is the history of how this construction/reconstruction became part of denialism?

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Soviet Union was clearly a big opponent of US, so was countries like China. Why didn't US send out at least some non-protectionist ultimatums to for example Soviet Union? There were at least four years where only nuclear power in the world was USA from 1945 to 1949!

I think it is a common condition that people will suffer severe hardships or even die if they eat lots of food after extreme starvation, did this actually happen in case of death camp liberations?

My understanding of racial politics during the era when slavery existed was that the one drop rule applied, i.e. someone could be of predominantly white ancestry and still be enslaved. I just recently read that Sally Jennings (edit: Hemings) Thomas Jefferson’s mistress, was fully three quarters of European ancestry, and yet she was obviously a slave. What I’m curious about is how far this actually went in practice and how this rule was actually enforced. For example, did anyone ever sued for their freedom on the basis of their ancestry (to the extent that that was even provable)? Or, did social taboos begin to kick in if someone born into slavery was only 1/16th of African ancestry? Or 1/32nd or 1/64th? I also know that in post-slavery but still extremely racist America it was common slander among whites to insinuate that someone had African ancestry, even if that wasn’t immediately noticeable based on physical traits, and I’m curious how this was handled in the extremely race-conscious society of the antebellum South.

When 1899 turned over into 1900, did it feel akin to 1999 into 2000?

Obviously technology and culture were different back then, but was there an ominous and exciting vibe to coming into a new century?

Or were people going from 1899 into 1900 thinking it was just another week?

Japan invaded Korea with 200 thousand soldiers in the late 1500s. Did any European country field so many soldiers in a campaign? Were the Japanese tactics and technology at a similar level of development as, for example, a Spanish Tercio?

I’ve scoured the internet and I need to know how long it would take for one very skilled blacksmith in the 1300s (ignoring wars and the plague) to build a full set of metal armor for a typical knight, assuming they had the best tools and materials of the time for the job available? Any sort of timeframe would be much appreciated!

For the longest while Nobunaga has always been treated as an almost comically evil supervillain in pop culture. Rounding up women and children and burning them alive, drinking wine from the skulls of his enemies, etc. But Ive been noticing that for the past decade or so there seems to be more and more instances of him being interpreted as a neutral or even heroic figure. Has there been a discovery/revelations recently that could have contributed to this change of perception?

I dont know if this counts as political or not. If so, I apologise, and mods can remove this as they see fit.

I’ve been reading Chaucer recently and the thing that hit me was that I understand all of it, bar a few terms such as ‘eek’. On the other hand, if I look up Beowulf and read some of it, I can pick out a few words that seem to resemble Modern English, but that’s about it.

To my knowledge, Middle English was heavily influenced by Old French, specifically the Old Norman dialect.

Doesn’t this mean that Modern English, because of its resemblance to Middle English over Old English, is more a Romance language than a Germanic one?