I'm presenting my first paper at a legit conference this Sunday! Wish me luck!

our very own /u/restricteddata has a blog which is nominated for "the duckies" best blog award. You can go vote to narrow down nominees to a final ballot here

voting ends February 1st.

the definition of the awards is pretty much

OAIS awards are intended for English-language international-studies media whose output has significant scholarly content.

https://isaomc.wordpress.com/duckies-2016/

I've found some interesting stuff to follow from looking at this year's nominees and past nominees and if you're interested in this sort of thing you should take a look/vote.

I need some help. This isn't so much a history question but a question about conversion of units of measurements.

In 1687, Denonville's account of his campaign against the Seneca says he destroyed 400,000 minots of corn. My understanding of the situation is that 1 minot = 3 French bushels = 1 English / Imperial bushel. Yet I kept seeing this number converted to 1.2 million bushels in Imperial measurements.

If anyone knows late 17th Century French dry measurements, can you let me know if I'm doing my math wrong?

BRING ON THE SNOW!!!!!!

TIL Wizengamot was not just a made-up Harry Potter word. (Or at least not the wizardy keyboard-smash type word I assumed it was until today.)

Is there a specific historical method that can be used to describe changes over various edition of the same text in a meaningful way?

Let's assume I want to analyze the detailed description of a rose over 5 editions of the same book. Every edition has a slightly different description of the rose. So, is there a method to find out if the writer changed f.e. her worldview over time?

[Yes, I've asked this question in the Thursday thread, but i think here is the better place]

Nother update on my dissertation :D

https://gunlord500.wordpress.com/2016/01/22/gunlords-dissertation-saga-episode-8-all-over-the-place/

I've made steady progress over the past week (reasonably steady) but I've also been jumping around a bit...as I mention, keeping myself focused and motivated seems to be my biggest challenge, so whenever I find myself getting bored with one chapter, I found I was able to keep myself working by skipping ahead or backwards to a different chapter to give myself something new and engaging to work on. This seems to keep me from getting too frustrated and gives me something new to do, so it's worth something, at least.

I have a small question or maybe more of a source request. I want to make a video game about an ancient village. It's going to be set in a fantasy world but I would like to do some research to get some inspiration. Since the main action in the game is deciding how the villagers spent their time every month, I'm trying to find some examples of the yearly routine of ancient civilisations.

So I'm trying to get some basic sense of when people would plant crops and when they would harvest them and other tasks they might perform.

I'm still narrowing down what time and place I want to emulate but early bronze age Mesopotamia seems like a good place to start. But I would also appreciate examples of other cultures. If someone could recommend a book or article that covers this that would be great.

The topic on trade along the Pacific got me to finally look into the shaft tombs that are suppose to be in South America. Well, it isn't supposed. In fact, there is a wider distribution of shaft tombs in South America than in West Mexico. The inside of Tierradentro doesn't look like the tombs in West Mexico, but for all I know there are tombs like this that looters have gotten to and archaeologists have not. Weigand did mention that some of the looted tombs he investigated did have murals or paintings on the inside of them, but they were very fragile. He never took pictures or made drawings of them, though. So that's disappointing. The inside of Tierradentro does remind me of designs painted on figures from areas like Ixtlan del Rio. Such a mystery.

Now I need to dig up information on the shaft tombs in El Salvador and Panama.

And the one reported to be at Teotihuacan in the Michoacan barrio.

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but how are jobs after studying history? I'm from Norway, but I guess it won't hurt to ask, as I'm really interested in history and not sure about my future career after I'm done with masters in history

Does anyone know of the existence of a legal document that establishes Dublin as the capital of Ireland?

The United States of America's Residence Act of 1790 located its capital in what is currently known as Washington D.C.

However, I am unable to find any similar records for the establishment of Dublin as capital of the Republic of Ireland. When did Dublin officially become recognized as its capital, and was it deemed necessary to settle the question by making a legislative mention of it by its Founding Fathers?

If records are nonexistent, is it possible to cast doubt or even officially deny that Dublin is the capital?

Did the europeans use religion to justify what they did in the Americas? How about Africa?

I have a question which isn't so much about history but about the career, because I love history but I'm already studying.modern languages, I've never thought about what career paths lay for history majors? Like, without masters or doctorates? What of with them?