Anyone know of osteological evidence of dwarfs or hunchbacks being found in Mesoamerica? I read an article on the first case of polydactyly in Mesoamerica from a grave in Belize. It got me wondering about all the dwarf and hunchback imagery and if there is skeletal evidence.

Hi /r/AskHistorians, I've been doing some very specific research today on a WW2 German Army helmet that has probably been at the family cabin since the war. I have written down what I've found with sources and pictures of the helmet in this evernote note.

I have a couple of questions that maybe someone here can help me with:

1 - In the last pictures you can see some stains, can you help me identify what they might be?

2 - Can anyone help me pinpoint further when it was produced, or if there is anything special about this helmet?

3 - Is there an easily accessible record of German soldiers that can help me learn anything about the owner? What I've found are sites in German, which I do not speak.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for any spelling mistakes, English isn't my first language.

Hi guys,

In my quixotic quest to uncover my family history, I've come across a picture of a great grandfather wearing an Austro-Hungarian uniform circa 1918. Is there anyone here familiar with A-H WW1 uniforms and willing to take a look?

Hello, I've been doing some fairly quick highschool-level research on the late roman empire. What I know is that I need at least 3 primary sources, and at minimum 3 secondary sources. If nobody replies, its fine, I have a bit of information I can work off that would work for an outline.

My question is, is there any sort of database where I could find as much information written by historians from the time period of 300-500 on that period? This can include historians born a little later, because from what I've tried so far and from what I've heard this seems to be a somewhat understudied bit of roman history.

Thanks in advance.

Hey /r/AskHistorians, I'm looking for resources on the Vietnam War as I am writing an essay for my PreU qualification (4000 words) on 'How far was US failure in Vietnam the result of their military tactics?'

So far all I have found in my school library are a few textbooks that don't go into enough depth. Are there any recommendations for the essay which would include the failure to win hearts and minds (bombing campaigns, civilian deaths), failures of the ARVN, success of the Communists, US disunity and trying to fight a comfortable war, as well as the title topic, failures in US military strategy.

Do you have any book recommendations for the topics listed?

I am looking for A academia.edu paper about free females having sex with male slaves. For some reason it just will not appear in the search results .

Currently, I'm reading Reforming Men & Women: Gender in the Antebellum City by Bruce Dorsey. It looks at the development of gender identities and activism in the public sphere in the early American republic.

Greeting, /r/AskHistorians! Since LAPL recently expanded its [database holdings] (http://access.newspaperarchive.com.ezproxy.lapl.org/) of regional American newspapers, I've been catching up on stray missed wire service reportage on a range of historic Los Angeles crime stories featured on my Esotouric bus tours. In most cases, there isn't anything so earthshaking that it changes the narratives developed over the years... but there's one always troubling death from "Pasadena Confidential" that suddenly looks more like a murder than suicide, thanks to a few otherwise unreported facts sent over the wire.

I've officially entered the final 6 months of my Thesis so I'm not so much researching as writing as fast as humanly possible. That said, I've started reading David Green's The Hundred Year's War: A People's History and it's been pretty good so far. The introduction is a great summary of the political events of the Hundred Year's War broken down into an impressively short number of pages.

I'm trying to brush up on my late medieval military history since while my Thesis is largely a work in that area it's primarily concerned with technology so I've somewhat neglected the human element. Will it revolutionize my thesis? no, but hopefully it might stop me embarrassing myself at my Viva.