Ever come across an author who happens to write in your niche area of study, and you excitedly google their name so you can find other works they have done, only to find out they've died and get all bummed out?

I did this week. Only the man didn't die, but recently got arrested for distributing CP.

Is it just me who finds it a little disturbing that there is an Oxford college where the prelims reading list for the ‘Economics and History’ module includes The Book Which Shall Not Be Named by The Ornithologist Who Shall Not Be Named?

You may or may not know that I help BazBattle make his Sengoku video (except Ōnin War, which is what brought him to my attention).

So earlier this week the BazBattle of Kawanakajima is out! It's the first one where besides editing inputs I also wrote a lot of the script (I wrote the first draft) because it's fairly complicated and no correct version of the story exists in English that I am aware of.

Anyway the video is finally out and the response is positive and I'm happy :)

This thread is as good a place as any for me to express my continual wonderment at what a resource this subreddit is by historical education standards. To those who contribute, I salute you.

If you devoted your time to reading through all the posts and delved a little into the citations of the responses that interested you most, you'd come out of it with more or less an undergraduate major's knowledge of history. Probably somewhat more.

Source: was an undergraduate history student ;)

On Oct. 20th we explored a section of north central Mass. which I had never before visited, & in which I saw some of the finest autumnal leafage & landscape vistas that I have ever beheld. The focus of the trip was West Townsend, where we lunched at a rambling tavern built in 1774, & patronised the quaintest old general store that I’ve seen in 30 years. Nearby is the Wallis Brook State Forest, where we revelled in wooded hills, rock waterfalls, & leafy gorges of indescribable picturesqueness. From nearly every point the distant bulk of Mt. Wachusett loomed up, & once we had a splendid view of a steepled village in a valley. On the 21st Cole & his wife brought us back to Providence—picking up my aunt at #66 & setting out for the ancient Narragansett Country which Price & I explored last year. We visited venerable Wickford with its drowsing wharves & elm-shaded Main Street, & later struck inland to the gorgeously lovely spot where Gilbert Stuart’s birthplace—a snuff-mill built in 1750—broods beside the Pettaquamscutt or Narrow River. As I told you in ’33, this ancient structure has been fully restored—wheel & all—so that it can grind tobacco into snuff as well as it did when Stuart’s father ran it 180 years ago. The surrounding landscape is doubly beautiful in autumn, & Cole insisted on some adventurous explorations which resulted in our getting partly lost. A heated Chevrolet is a very useful aid to explorations in late October!

• H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, 28 Oct 1934, DS 585

The tavern is still there, although appears to now be a private residence. Mt. Wachusett does not now, nor has it for the past several million years "loomed." But it is nice sometimes to run across bits like this.

Is reading Killing the Rising Sun worth it? I heard it had a lot of inaccuracies (the series on the whole) so I thought I'd check here before reading.

Hi guys!

I'm working on a text and I need to mention the quintessential example of an inquisitor who sent people to burn alive.

The inquisitor par excellence is probably Torquemada, but he's mostly associated with torture. Am I right? So who would be the "inquisitor who sent people to burn alive" par excellence?

Thank you very much for your help!