Hello! I'm a classroom aide and history/English subject tutor for students aged 12-15. They need to practice the following skills:

• Identifying cause and effect
• Identifying bias in sources
• Comparing and contrasting how different sources represent the same subject
• Understanding and interpreting maps, charts, and graphs

Do you have any recommendations for blogs, YouTube channels, or other accessible, online resources I could use to practice these historical skills with my students? I looked through the resources pages pinned in the sidebar, but they're clearly tailored to an older, more academic audience than 8th-10th graders. I work specifically with English Language Learners and students who've struggled in mainstream schools, so accessible language is a huge priority for me! This will probably mean a lot of pop history, but I'd like to serve up good, well-researched material instead of the sensationalized or indifferently researched stuff that's so easy to find.

We use a mix of primary and secondary sources in class. Our next in-class unit is going to be about revolutions and independence movements in the Caribbean, but I don't have to focus on those same topics in my tutoring sessions -- my focus is skills, not on subject material.

Sorry if this question is broad or difficult to answer!

How did legionnaires from each opposing side distinguish friend from foe? Did they wear different or armor or did their armor have different colour or something in those bouts?

“Let’s spend billions tracking down specific groups of people and then spend even more billions making giant camps to kill them and use them for work” what was the point, besides pure evil?

My dad just told me about his grandad who was drafted as a private in 1916 and became a lieutenant by 1919, and was thus able to attend the University of Bristol. He's wondering how common an occurrence this was, and also whether it was part of a deliberate policy, or simply the result of the aristocratic junior officers' high casualty rate. So I thought I'd ask here if anyone can tell me, or at least recommend some reading material that'll help. Thanks!

help me.

I'm having an oddly hard time finding a straight answer to his on Google, I'm pretty sure it would be Huron/Wyandot but I'm not 100% sure. I would like to ask someone who knows for sure.

I'm French myself and kind of see what it might be about but it's a bit vague and I can't find nowhere a clear definition of it.

You folks are genuinely amazing; I just want you to know this. In the last three or so years I have learnt a lot in big part due to this subreddit and sometimes it feels like the members here don't know that they enrich the lives of hundreds of thousands

Back in the 60s counterculture figures like Ken Kesey and Jerry Garcia wore American flag outfits, and conservatives decried it as disrespectful and in violation of the flag code. Nowadays conservatives love wearing flags, the more the better. What happened to create such a reversal of public opinion?

I've seen a lot of pictures of ships from the Great War and interwar period with various types of camouflage paint patterns. Throughout the Second World War, especially later years, it appears that most warships were just painted the classic grey colour. Was there a reason for moving away from the use of camouflage on warships; and why is camouflage no longer used on warships, especially when we still see it used on land vehicles and aircraft? Thanks in advance for your insight into this!

No writings of Saint Nicholas remain, but what are the earliest primary sources that mention Saint Nicholas? I am trying to research Saint Nicholas' life for an essay I am writing. Thanks!

The Maya were many independent kingdoms, while the Aztecs were an expansionist empire. How was the relationship between these two cultures in trade, politics and military, religion, etc? Did the Aztecs attempted to conquest the Maya region?

We have seen a good number of A bombs being tested all over the world by different countries. However, why are there so few videos of tests being carried out in Africa?

I can't with the bullshit. Just because the name of the party had "socialism" in it, doesn't mean Hitler was one. Can you help me build stronger and more developed arguments ?

In the acclaimed movie Tokyo story (1953) we can see Shukichi, an elderly provincial man who goes to visit his grown children in Tokyo, wear a suit and tie in a large number of scenes, many of which are domestic and informal.

Given his age and the small amount of years after the second world war it seems unlikely to me that such a trend starting after WWII would have reached even the geriatric older generations so quickly. Also my mental image of Pre WWII Japan is of a quite insular and secluded country that didn't want anything to do with foreigners so it would also be surprising to me if these clothes would have been widely adopted before then.

However I am not even a historian, let alone someone specialising in Japan so I would be glad if someone who is more knowledgeable could contribute. Thanks!

Most European countries are unitary states or ones like Spain where levels of autonomy depend on the area. As an American, I understand this makes me biased, federations seem to me to be a good solution to culturally and linguistically different areas operating under a single unit. So how come areas with such linguistic diversity like France, Spain, and Italy never had pushes to become federations? Why did Germany federate when Italy didn’t? Why is Austria of all places a federation?

I recently came across a comment discussing that people in the past would get married at around 12 years old They never specified where or when

But is there some truth to that??

I love nerdy media. Comic books, broadway musicals, cheesy B-movies via "Mystery Science Theater 3000", you name it. In consuming these over the years, I've noticed a pattern. Over and over again in the 1950s, American pop culture seemed to reflect a fear of "juvenile delinquency." Media reflected teenagers getting out of control and violent. There appears to be a secondary theme that poor parenting is the cause of the juvenile delinquency. The juvenile delinquency theme peters out in later decades. Some examples of the media that reflects this are:

• The 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent by Fredric Wertham, which is directly responsible for the creation of the Comics Code Authority, which self-censored comic books into the 21st century.

• The 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story replaces the rival families of Genoa from Romeo and Juliet with rival gangs of juvenile delinquents in 1950s New York City. This is best reflected in the lyrics to the number Gee, Officer Krupke. Snippets of the lyrics below:

    Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke
    You gotta understand
    It's just our bringin' up-ke
    That gets us out of hand
    Our mothers all are junkies
    Our fathers all are drunks
    Golly Moses, naturally we're punks!
  
    Gee, Officer Krupke, we're very upset;
    We never had the love that every child oughta get
    We ain't no delinquents
    We're misunderstood
    Deep down inside us there is good!
  
    . . .
  
    Dear kindly Judge, your Honor
    My parents treat me rough
    With all their marijuana
    They won't give me a puff
    They didn't wanna have me
    But somehow I was had
    Leapin' lizards! That's why I'm so bad!
  
    . . .
  
    In my opinion, this child don't need to have his head shrunk at all. Juvenile delinquency is purely a social disease!
  

• The 1956 movie The Violent Years, written by infamous B-Movie schlock Ed Wood features a violent gang of teenage girls robbing and murdering. The last 10 minutes of the movie are a judge lecturing the main character's parents about why they were terrible parents and how they were ultimately responsible for their daughter's fate. This movie was featured in a 1994 episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000", which is how I came to see it.

• Finally, the term "Juvenile Delinquent" still lingers around a bit in American English, despite it not being used by professionals in decades. The term seems to have some potent cultural power. Ignore this, /u/veryshanetoday informs me that the term is still used!

What was going on in America in the 1950s that made Americans so afraid of teenagers? Why was it so heavily suggested that parents were the problem?

As a relatively small country with lots of natural resources between Japan and China, it would seem that Korea would be an ideal target for conquest. However, aside from being dominated by both Japan and China in their own times, there does not seem to have been any attempt by a Western power to colonize and govern Korea as was done in many other East Asian lands (Vietnam, Straits of Malacca, Phillippines). I'm curious about the reasons for this and if there were any attempts that I simply am not aware of.

I don't know much about Mongol history, but I do know that:

• They wrote down relatively little

• Despite their brutality, the Mongol Empire was also known for religious tolerance

Do we have any reliable sources telling of how religious Genghis Khan was and if he was considered a pious man by the standards of his religion, Tengrism?

Also, considering that there was relatively little written records about Tengrism, was all the mass murder and rape he committed considered acceptable in Tengrism?