Has the US electoral college ever voted against their mandate? Have individual collegiates done so or publicly contemplated it? If so what happened to them.

Within your field of study, who are authors or figures to wary of who have an 'agenda'? What coded language or controversial assumptions should an interested amateur look out for?

I had this question previously, but it was a bit broad for it's own thread! National histories, economic history and genocide studies are areas which I imagine attract some 'questionable' author tracts.

My cat has questionable reading choices.

I always wanted to ask the mods: What is the funniest joke comment you have had to remove?

Does anyone know of any Primary sources regarding the Maginot line? I'm writing a paper that covers why it was built, what it consisted of, and why it failed. I have been trying without luck to find some type of first person account or a political leader who talked about it. If you know of anything like this I would love to read it. Thanks

I'm writing a 1500 word paper on the Slánský trial of 1952 and man is it hard to pin down something to write about. Anyone else researched show trials in the USSR or Soviet Bloc countries that I might find interesting? Any sources you'd recommend?
I'm currently reading Under a Cruel Star by Heda Margolius Kovaly, and Kevin McDermott's A “Polyphony of Voices”? Czech Popular Opinion and the Slanksy Affair. I always love source help!

Not much work done this week, but recent events have finally got me to get off my ass and get in gear on my dissertation! I'm currently going through every page of the marked up copy and making the minor formatting/grammar edits my profs asked me to. I'm currently on page 138 of 192, and when I'm done with that, I'll go back again and think of the reorganizational stuff they asked me to do--which is a little harder, but certainly not impossible! Since, as I've mentioned before, I'm good with primary sources so far, I'll spend the next week thinking more about organization. Also, one thing I can definitely easily do is add another 10 pages or so to a discussion on women's role in society that was a little short, so that's also somethin for me to start with :D

How has age effect past US elections? Is it more common for younger candidates to win, especially with extreme age difference? (Like Obama over McCain) or does age have little correlation with who wins?

I got approved to do a research paper! (For the Singaporeans out there, I'm referring to H3 - given to the top history students) Thinking of doing something related to my region, perhaps how the King of Thailand has shaped the historical narratives in the country (especially because of his recent passing). If anyone has any primary sources, or would like to comment on my choice of topic, please say so :)

I'm a history major, in my second year of college, and looking for a good beginning/intro to WWI that gives me a good grounding in the subject. I never really covered it in school, and I really feel the lack now trying to understand the overreaching timelines of Europe. Preferably something relatively inexpensive, as 100$ books are sadly a reach for me right now.

Thanks

Have you ever written an annotated bibiography without completely reading the entire work? Just enough to get the gist of it and write the annotation?

found two history podcasts from real history professors

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/162721

https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/march-2016/history-on-the-download-podcasting-the-past

Who Makes Cents? and The Urban Historians

will soon update /r/historypodcasting to add these to that glorified rss feed

are there any historical examples of the leaders/government of a country deliberately harming their own people in some way in order to blame it on some national enemy as propoganda?

I'm not sure if this is considered an acceptable question for this sub, but:

Some people like to compare the populist rise of President-elect Donald Trump to the rise of fascist regimes in the past, like post-WWI Germany. I was wondering if actual historians could weigh in on that comparison? What was it actually like as Hitler rose to power?

Did the Mayan ever adopt the weapons of the Conquistadors such as seen by North American Native Americans? Also did they have walled cities or build forts? Who were their greatest rivial before the arrival of the Conquistador?