Some of you will remember my friend /u/deMohac from his participation here on AskHistorians. Sadly, he lost a several-year battle with cancer a couple of weeks ago, and died peacefully with his wife and daughter by his bedside.

He was a history student in Dublin's Trinity College, and a good one. Earlier this week, his wife received notification from Trinity that they will be establishing a prize in his name for AMHC students that will be funded by The School of Histories and Humanities.

/u/deMohac, hail and farewell!

Bit of an older story but when I was studying for my degree I had a class on the Fall of Republican Rome. One of the assessments was essentially a report on an assigned Roman figure from the period. I was given a man called Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus. He had a reasonably notable career with a consulship in 129 bc and recieved a triumph for campaigns in Illyria. The problem is that one of our main source for Tuditanus is Cicero's letters to Atticus in which Cicero confuses him with his father (who had the same name) several times. This led to me essentially writing a whole essay on the wrong person and causing me to have to hastily slap together a rather poor essay. As a result, I have developed a loathing of Cicero

What propaganda from the period you study is still being shared to this day?

Yesterday I was able to attend part of a graduate seminar hosted by Dr. John B. Hattendorf (I just recently graduated from Undergraduate). For those that don't know, Dr. Hattendorf is a leading Naval historian so I was very lucky to have been invited by the co-chair of the institute this seminar was at (he was a professor of mine at the undergraduate level), and two of the students in the institute (one of whom was my Capstone professor and the other is my project supervisor for my internship).

It was very awesome being able to hear about some of his experiences as a Naval Historian, and to hear him speak some about Naval history. Naval History is one of my favorite things so it made my day!

I asked a version of this as a posted question (properly removed as too broad), but this came up in conversation I had with folks IRL last week - what sorts of questions do you wish you were asked about your area of expertise? Especially if you focus on a region outside of Europe or North America (I was originally thinking about Africa for this question).

What does the general public not even know that they don't know, so to speak?

Question: I know the death toll of the Japanese army during WW2; but how many Japanese soldiers actually survived the war and was able to go back to their home?

I'm currently doing a research paper on Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign, and online, I have repeatedly seen two cartoons, but I can't find the names of who created them and when.

The link for the first cartoon: https://www.sutori.com/item/untitled-c896-8ec1

The link for the second cartoon: https://history.libraries.wsu.edu/history105-unangst-fall2017/2017/09/14/socialist-leaders-and-policy-impacts/

If anyone knows the origins of these primary sources, I would greatly appreciate your help!