Hello everyone! I am looking to do a project for which I am writing about the minor axis powers of WW2, namely Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia, as well as any other smaller powers too. I would like to know if you have any recommendations for in-depth reading on these nations and their history during the Second World War. Many thanks!

Slavery was abolished pretty much 100 years after the U.S. was founded. Did this 100 year anniversary play any role in causing the civil war?

I love Irish and Scottish music, but I never hear anything from Wales that's not heavily English.

I know that he wrote some when he retired from politics but I can't find them anywhere. Did those memoirs even survive?

Im studying a lot of naval and grand strategy/policy style history of the 20th century, especially the interwar period.

The British Empire is integral to the history of the Royal Navy, in some ways providing both its requirements and role.

Yet what strikes me is how absent modern history of empire is from the analysis. Moral failures and unpleasantness of Empire rarely effects the naval interpretation of the need to defend it. In my opinion naval history often falls into implicitly accepting the validity of the British Empire. Geostrategic grounds drown out other issues.

So 3 linked questions

What are some good ways of using histories of Empire, which i assume suggest Empire was not a nice thing, to critique organisations such as the navy implicitly linked to its existence?

Are there some good works that already do this? What are some good modern history of the British Empire that are a good place to start in understanding the 20th century British Empire?

This is maybe a little silly, but keeping with the theme, I'm curious if ancient Scandinavians would have snowball fights and build snow forts and that kind of thing like kids do during the winter today.

What are some of the best British History textbooks?

Which books would you recommend on the Migration Period/Völkerwanderung (English or German)?

I remember in high school a history teacher showing my class a documentary on YouTube that said some founding father or early American historical figure thought that the European Americans and Native Americans should mix together and form a single continental nation together, possibly with a mixed culture. I don’t remember the name of the historical figure or even the documentary. Is there any truth to this idea? Where there people in power who at the time thought this was a good idea? I’m only posting this here cause you guys know about history, this very well could be bad history and this sub allows shorter replies

He further goes to state that this strategy is predicated on American effeteness, so my question is what historical events caused the Japanese military command to view Americans as effete and not willing to stick it through? What specific historical occurrences gave the Japanese the impression that the Americans and by extension western powers were effete to the extent that they were willing to base their entire military strategy of the effeteness of western power. Was the Japanese Russian dealings in the Russo-Japanese wars that lead to this image of an effete western power or were there other accounts that lead to this perception?

Edit: clarified the question

Do we have any images of tatoos ancient britons adorned themselves with?

I am a layman when it comes to history however I do enjoy reading about history as much as I can. I realized that most of my knowledge is very Euro and American centric and I have a basic understanding of Central and Eastern Asian history. But I want to learn more about cultures that I haven't been exposed to before. As the title says I am particularly interested in the ancient history of Southern Asia and Pre-Columbian North America. I went through the book list in the wiki and found a couple books. I was just wondering if anyone had any books they would recommend.

I know the really basic history of that period, Julian the Apostate, the Ecumenical Councils, that type of stuff. But, I read one thing that interested me the other day, that the Altar of Victory, an alter to a Pagan goddess, was still present in the senate until 357 (returned by Julian and removed again 382). Of course, it would be unreasonable to expect that the moment Constantine converted to Christianity they would tear down or convert every single vestige of Paganism in the entire empire but it seemed odd that it would take them 50 years to remove such a protonate aspect of the old religious order. Is there a reason why this remained in the senate for so long? Where many (most?) of the senators still Pagan during this period? Did the Christians decide that it was now only symbolic (like say lady justice)?

I am aware of the mistakes they made; and Hitler deciding to sleep in. I am curious about how much of a surprise it really was.

Thanks ahead of time.

Did you just have to die in a fight? Did you have to have a weapon in hand the moment you died? Did you have to kill a certain amount of people in order to qualify for entry to Valhalla?

Hey guys. So I've been doing a lot of research on the many military leaders of WW2. From the Germans and Soviets to the British and Americans. And whilst they all have their excellent and not so excellent generals, America is no exception. It had me thinking though, Germany had some exceptional leaders, but this is no surprise with their pedigree of the Prussian empire and German empire in the previous decades. Similarly the British, who had a vast empire and been fighting wars for centuries. But then when I thought about the Americans, who also had some very good leaders in the army, navy and Air force, where did they come from? Where was americas military history up until then to enable them to have some clearly excellent generals who really knew their way around a war and battlefield?

Edit: By “first”, I meant “oldest”, my bad guys. Reddit really should give us the option to edit the titles

Referring to the Olive Oil reserved for direct Human consumption

I was wondering if it would’ve tasted different at all or have been far cloudier ? Maybe even a different color