I'm explicitly curious of any programs or approaches that had good effect to depopularise those racist attitudes. Eg Superman mocking KKK.

I've been getting into the Vietnam war recently and I've been recommended "Kill Anything That Moves" by Nick Turse, I do want to pick up a copy; I just want a heads up about potential misinfo.

Were these guys just keeping all of their letters laying around their whole lives? Were they intended to be kept and published by the writers?

I was listening to a podcast very recently and a topic that came up was how Dante’s Divine Comedy left a lasting impact on the church as a whole in terms of their narratives, how they operate, and even the use of words like “Hell.” Unfortunately, my memory is pretty unreliable and I can’t remember a lot of the specifics of that discussion and I don’t what podcast that was (it was one of the bazillion podcasts my dad likes to listen to while making breakfast.) But yeah, I was really interested in this topic and when I went to look it up, all I got were articles from Christian websites (and as someone who grew up in a Christian home, I know for a fact that that they’re not objective about things like history, especially when it opens the possibility of “plot-holes,”) and then I also got some ads from like, three cults, so... I figured I’d ask people who might be a little less biased about the facts and how Dante’s politically-charged, self-insert power-fantasy led to the reformation of one of the world’s largest religions. Thanks in advance.

How demanding is the field, if, at all? I'm thinking about going back to school and getting my Masters in Holocaust and Genocidal Studies. I have been told by multiple people that I would make an excellent Professor! But what other professions are there that I can use my degree in? Thanks!

King Henry 8 broke away from the Catholic Church so he could divorce and remarry. Why then were there issues when the queen's uncle, sister, son, and grandson wanted to marry divorcees? I have read that the marriage of the queens uncle might have been an easy excuse to secretly remove a nazi-favoring ruler. And maybe people were more angry at the cheating scandal with her son. But that still leaves her sister and grandson

When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, what were his intentions? To overthrow the government and use the citizens as slaves to work in manufacturing facilities for war time economy? Or did he intend to exterminate the Russian people and use the land for Germany? I am sorry for my English!

I'm wondering if there is a comparison of where the Mesoamerican (Maya/Aztec) civilizations were if we compare them to European development? Maybe in different aspects? Were they 300 years behind in technology? 500? Thanks.

Modern people often see history as a story of society progressively getting better and moving towards some glorious technological utopia, or some Fukuyaman "End of History." On the other hand, I've seen medieval worldviews characterised here as having a inferiority complex to the civilisations of antiquity, with strains of millenarianism and the "dark ages" described in the beginning of the Renaissance. Is that accurate once you leave Europe? I understand Muslim writers tended to look at Medina under the Prophet Muhammad as the ideal, but did they consider themselves degenerate by extension? Were there equivalent time periods that Chinese and Indian writers would see as the pinnacle of civilisation, and was there optimism that it could ever be achievable again?

I was recently looking into Japan’s involvement in WW2 and some of the things they did were pretty disgusting, some even worse than the Nazis. I looked up about the rape/massacre of Nanjing and also Unit 731. The Japanese were so cruel to the Chinese. Why was this? Was it because they viewed the Chinese the way how the Nazis viewed the Jews and Slavs?

Hi. My last name is Chughtai. I know that I am related to Mongols, but what about Turkish people? Also, is the Chughtai family related to the Mughal emperors? thanks!

Currently, English is by far the favored language for international diplomacy (multinational organizations, when two representatives from different countries don’t speak each other’s language, etc...). This makes sense, considering the US’s (and to a lesser extent the Five Eyes countries) outsized role on the world stage. However, I know for a long time Latin was the language of diplomacy in Europe, and then I believe French? When did the shift from these languages to English occur, and did it have connections to any major world events at the time?

Are historian skills valuable beyond academy and studies? How much? What do Historians do on commercial environments?

I know that the vulcanization process as we currently understand it (basically sulfer + heat to strengthen rubber) hasn't come about until three 1800s with Mr Goodyear, but Aztecs did have ways to take rubber and utilize other components in order to strengthen or "vulcanize" it.

My question is, if I were a Pre-Columbian Aztec engineer that knew what was necessary to create rubber bands, would I have the resources necessary to do so? How would I do this?

I have the impression that is a "History Channel " level of bad, but would like to read the opinion of some historians about it.

The theory says the Mexican Cartels are so big and powerfull because they supply the largest drug consumer in the world: the US, and conviently (for them) Mexico and the US share a huge land border.

Starting in the 80s/90s, the mexican cartels replaced the colombian cartes because MExico is closer to the US and Pablo Escobar was dead.

Why wasnt there a Canadian Escobar to supply the demand as well?

How come no Canadian criminal group/cartel popped up and tried to compite against mexican cartels in order to supply places like NY, Boston or Seattle their drug needs?

Was he simply not prepared for someone to betray him, had he become lax in securing his personal safety, or was his rule always just one betrayal away from collapse and he hadn’t managed to tick anyone off enough yet?

I’m ordering lots of heirlooms seeds with stories like “Polish immigrants brought this to Pennsylvania” or “Volga Germans carried these to Kansas” and realizing that our seed heritage is so dependent on small communities saving and growing seed that worked for them.

With Eastern Europe, Asia, Middle East ravaged during the two wars, did this impact agriculture diversity? I know production fell off a cliff but do we know of seed varieties lost in the war among the countless millions of people?

Did china got involved in WW1 ?