Hey guys, I'm looking for the last known addresses of Richard Nixon's grandkids. Any suggestions?

I'm trying to trace a really obscure source and several drawings/watercolors.

In the late 1890s Adela Breton, an English lady interested in archaeology, paid a visit to the highlands lake region of Jalisco where my research has been focused on. While she was there she visited a hacienda near the town of Etzatlan that contained a huge mound and several smaller mounds encircling it. To me this sounds like a guachimonton, but I can't really say for certain since all these mounds no longer exist. The hacienda owner was in the process of looting the mound for hollow ceramic figures. When Breton visited many of them had been sold off, but the owner kept several and Breton got her hands on two of them. She made a sketch of the mound and of the figures as well as some shell and obsidian artifacts. You can read her short paper here.

She then continued east to the town of Teuchitlan and she was "shown an extraordinary set of mounds arranged in three circles, each with a large tumulus or pyramid rising in the center." These are definitely the largest guachimontones at Los Guachimontones. What I am trying to track down are the sketches/watercolors she made of the site. In the book Adela Breton: A Victorian Artist Amid Mexico's Ruins they say that "as soon as she returned from the tour she sent William Henry Holmes the plan she had made of the ancient remains at Teuchitlan". Searching around Google and in the library services I have available to me has turned up nothing. I do not know if Holmes kept the drawings, or returned them to Breton, or if they were used in a paper Breton gave in 1908 to which no copy of it seems to exist, or if the drawings are lost to time and buried away in some museum or estate or are destroyed. These drawings would have been the earliest depictions of Los Guachimontones and may shed light into how the site looked before farming, looting, and the elements took its toll on the site before Phil Weigand excavated and restored the site in late 90s/early 00s.

If anyone can find the 1908 paper or can churn up more information on whether or not Holmes has the drawings of Teuchitlan I would be in your debt for life.

Adela Breton. 1908. The Ancient Mexican Sites near Juchipila, Teuchitlan, Zapotlan, Perote, and Joalliche. Proceedings of The American Association for the Advancement of Science, fifty-eighth meeting held at Chicago, Illinois, December 1907 – January 1908.

Also, does anyone know how big Otzi the Iceman's penis is? I tried looking online and there were stories that said it was missing or he was castrated. Anyone know for certain the state of Otzi's genitals?

It's this week's Better Know An Historian! And we're sitting down with /u/kaisermatias to talk about hockey, the Vancouver Canucks, hockey, the Stanley Cup, and also a little bit about hockey. :)

I have kind of a minor question.

While speaking with my mom, she mentioned when she was a child, radio stations would yearly make an announcement that it was the day for everyone that had entered the United States from Mexico to register.

When and why did it change from something casual like that, to border crossings with documentation, or did I misunderstand what she meant as she was moderately drunk?

I just submitted the essay portion of my qualifying exam for my PhD program. I'll find out in a week or so if I passed, then it's on to the second (oral) part of the exam. This is about as stressed as I've ever been handing in a piece of academic writing, partly because I don't quite know what a good response to the exam question looks like.

My latest article finally came out last night, so it's a nice palliative to the ambivalent feeling I'm having about postponing my fall research trip by six days. It's a long flight to South Africa, but this might get me into Zimbabwe (the ultimate goal), so I had to trade some scrawny old horses (and a couple hundred bucks, the paper kind) to do it. Fortunately, the South Africans are being as welcoming as always, setting aside dedicated space and arranging unfettered access to documentary collections for me. I'm taking some serious research equipment this time, designed to capture maps and sketches; it's costly and fairly heavy gear (good Manfrotto stuff) but fortunately I won't be staying too far away from the places I'm working.

I also officially got my contract today for my new tenured rank--associate professor--so it feels a little more real now. Now back to writing that chapter I don't know enough about to writem and ordering all the last-minute things that friends down there have asked for. Wife and family are happy I'm staying the extra days, at least.

Can anyone recommend any primary sources on the occupation of Boston (1768-1770) written by British soldiers or sources observing their daily life? Beyond the Journal of Occurrences, which seems to be the most popular (yet seemingly uncritical about it) primary source for the doings of British regulars in Boston at this time, I have had a hard time finding anything.

With that said, I'm also looking for secondary sources. I've read the excellent As If An Enemy's Country and I wonder if there has been any other books written on the topic that doesn't entirely focus on the Boston massacre? Thanks!

I'm just going to shamelessly use the lax rules on this post to plug my new project: History of Alchemy youtube series.

"Animated podcast" is what I'm going with so far (all my projects so far are podcasts) ...but I wouldn't quite go with "documentary" either.

...oh yeah, I do mention /r/AskHistorians, so it's all good.

I love this subreddit. Did you guys meet your fundraising goal? I must have missed that post and I was just wondering. :)

I might have missed this being discussed in another thread but what do you think about historians advocating for new terminology dealing with the Civil War (and Antebellum era in general). Thoughts? http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/160266

So I was hoping to grab a book on the history of Sweden - any suggestions? Specifically detailing Sweden's rise and fall from prominence

Today is the 182nd wedding anniversary of Silas Wright Jr. and Clarissa Moody! Fortunately I realized this before the end of the day so I was able to post it on our museum's FB page. (The museum is located in their house, in case this all sounds like nonsense.)

It's also my birthday so clearly it was fate that I should work here.

Why is Thirty years war considered as a one war, while a series of conflicts from the 1670s to 1720s are considered a lot of separate wars? I thought about asking it as a question but then deemed it to be too opinion based, so I will try here

It seems to me (mostly from what I read on wikipedia), that the Thirty years war could also be considered a series of wars, with the period 1618-1623, then interventions from Danish (1625-29), Swedish(1630-35/48), French(1635-48). With of course the whole Netherlands-Spain thing going on simultaneously.

But in a period starting with the 1670s and 80s there appears a whole new series of wars which lasted even longer then 30 years For HRE / Austria, I counted the ( almost ) consecutive wars of: Franco-Dutch War (1672-78), Great Turkish War (1683-99), simultaneous to War of the Reunions(1683-84) and Nine Years' War (1688–97) then followed with War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), and finished with Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18 and War of Quadruple Alliance (1718-20)

Polish and Russian forces participated in both the Great Turkish War(1683-1699), and then almost immediately the Great Northern War in 1700-21 (and short Russo-Ottoman War of 1710–11) add some other events of the time as the Glorious Revolution (1688) and Jacobite uprisings and you have a whole bunch of conflicts!

So.... if we join up the Franco-Dutch War and War of Reunions and Nine Years war and War of Spanish Succession and War of Quadruple Alliance (all had 4-5 year peace breaks between,if we don't count the Turkish war), it seems almost 5 decades of on-and-off war for some of the countries (France and HRE).

Was the nature and scope and consequences of the Thirty years war much different then this series of wars culminating with War of Spanish Succession to treat them different and seperate?

I know part of the answer as some differences are obvious: different theaters of operations and enemies and alliances, breaks in fighting with truces and peaces. Different goals and causes of each war.

But this series of wars also has some causes to be considered as one big conflict: the conflicts spanned decades almost continuously, with Leopold I Habsburg/HRE and Louis XVI / France being in the center of it all. And, importantly each new war seem to be all about the consequences of the previous war as one side (mostly French) not being satisfied with the last peace and wanting to enforce existing or acquire new gains by starting a new war

Anyway, it does seem the conflicts were plentiful, and re-igniting in regular intervals and sometimes lasting quite long. So how come they did not end (at least being perceived) at the same level of destruction and devastation associated with the Thirty years war?

Who is considered the worst president and why?

Currently in the process of reading an excellent book by Great War Military Historian Brian Bond, Britain's Two World Wars Against Germany: Myth, Memory and the Distortions of Hindsight. Does an excellent and insightful contrast of how the two wars were fought, why, and how they have been remembered (or rather, misremembered).

If anyone's interested, historian (and WWII veteran) John Grigg [wrote a similar article] (http://www.unz.org/Pub/Encounter-1990mar-00021), which is among Bond's sources.

I plan to attend an arts festival this weekend, and I need to sound like I know what art is about. I have no interest in paintings or whatnot, but I do want some of that sweet arts students action.

So far in my list I have:

• rubenesque
• post-modernism
• Raphalite
• philistine (surprisingly, not related to either the Palestinians or the Philippines)

What else can I say to make people not suspect that I don't have the foggiest clue about art?