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Tried asking this before but I guess no qualified would-be-answerer saw it, so here goes again:
Do we know more about the origin and evolution of the stereotype that Germans have no sense of humor? Does it come from the evil Nazis, or the prim-and-proper Prussian bureaucrats, or something earlier or later?
What ritual or ceremony was done when reconverting a church that was turned into a mosque during a Muslim occupation?
What about reconverting a mosque during a Christian occupation?
I'm reading the 2005 edition of 1491 by Charles C. Mann, and in it researchers Alan L. Kolata and Nicole Couture have disagreeing estimates in the population sizes of Tiwanaku and the surrounding region by the year 1000 AD. Their estimates were 115k within; 250k in the surrounding area, and 20-30k inside Tiwanaku; the same number outside, respectively.
Couture remarked that the matter wouldn't be settled for another decade. Well guess what? It's been over 10 years and I'm curious: who was right and what do we currently know caused the collapse of Tiwanaku?
Was Biz Markie's "Just a Friend" based on a true story?
This is probably more a question about historiography rather than about history, and that's why I'm posting there. So I have a feeling that in debates about Stalin, deportations of ethnic groups (Koreans, Chechens, Germans, Tatars etc) and famine in other regions of Soviet Union except Ukraine (like for instance I didn't find many scholarly articles on famine in Kazakh SSR) is rarely mentioned in comparison with repressions or famine in the Ukraine. Is it actually underresearched or just doesn't pop up in debates because of other reasons?
According to OSS documents from 1943, in 1937-38 an American, who had just signed up for a sixth year in the French Foreign Legion, “fought in the Spanish Civil War”. Did the French send units to fight? Could he have been an observer?
During the 1848 Hungarian Revolution, why did ethnic groups like Croats and Romanians side with the Austrian monarchy?
Anyone got any books on the development of forensics in criminal investigations, especially pre-fingerprinting? I've been reading the occasional crime novel set pre-1920s (like Charles Todd), and I'm really wondering how and what kind of physical evidence was procured and analyzed.
The Teutonic Knights are often depicted with horned or winged Great Helms, Did they actually have these? (I’ve seen a picture of a museum example)
But more importantly, Did they wear them into battle or only on parade?
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Also the Teutonic Brothers have been referred to as the the bearded ones, Were Great Big Bushy Beards! an official rule against vanity? An unofficial custom picked up from their time in Outremer? Or just a popular fashion choice in all the big monastic military orders?
Before Christ and contemporary method of counting years (starting from 1 and now is 2018, anything before that are "negative" years, marked as BC/BCE), how did Romans, or any civilization, count years? When does their calendar begin? Or did they count years at all?
Who was the last representative to vote to ratify the U.S. Constitution? I'm currently a law school student and my Constitutional Law professor introduced the idea of discovering who was the very last representative from New Hampshire to vote to ratify the Constitution. Is there any way to find this out? I've been searching for a roll call of some sort from the NH ratification debates, but I cannot find anything. Thanks!
In the Doolittle raid, how did the B-25 get onto the Hornet deck?
Have they landed there or was it boring crane loading?
Can anyone recommend me a good book on the Second Sino-Japanese War?
I'll try here since probably it's better suited: why did owning a horse was synonymous with aristocracy/nobility while in the steppes pisspoor nomads had a ton of them?
What newspapers in France openly denounced Emile Zola during the Dreyfus Affair?
Can anyone recommend primary or secondary source reading material on the operations/history of the OSS?
What are some good books or resources to learn about alchemy historically? Like what were the important texts, what equipment was used over time, who were the major players. I'd prefer to start with an overview of the arc of the topic rather than reading individual primary sources or doing a deep dive on particular alchemists.
edit: seems like a lot of the books on amazon are like trashy occult books. I'd like to get something someone vouches for rather than shooting in the dark.
As far as I know, history essay's are typically written in Chicago style citation. I have received a primary source from my professor for a copy of Vegetius' De Re Militari. I just need help to understand how to create a proper citation from a web based book that isn't listing in pages, but one long text.
This is the online primary source my professor has given me to cite from.
Am I okay to cite it as one webpage?
Could someone direct me to where I might find information as to how far the different railway lines in the USA had progressed, and which were able to be used by civilians for travel during and after the Civil War?
Thank you
Why did Charles Manson get convicted of murder even though he wasn’t present at any of the murders?
What are some of the first examples of a state having more than one large city?
And what is a historical classification for a city?
I’m interested in learning more about the British partition of the subcontinent and also about the Liberation War that led to the creation of Bangladesh.
Can anyone recommend any good books on either of these two topics? I realize those are both large topics, but I’m hoping for good introductory reads that can provide fair, high-level overviews of events and repercussions.
I've been to Croatia for two weeks and fell in love with the country. However, I've been so interested in Yugoslavia war and how brutal it was. Is there any documentary or book about the war from the Serbian point of view? At first glance everyone points them as monsters but I would like to see their "version"
Does anyone know where I can find the full video this clip is from? I have a feeling it's a Coronett film but there are many of those. Description says it's from a film about how parents should treat their children.
How many videos of the Kennedy assassination are available to view online (I know about the Zapruder Film and the Orville Nix Film). Are there any others?
How much power would a US Marshal have over a normal law enforcement officer back in the "wild west" and in what cases would they be called to action?
How did the Native Americans, specifically Plains tribes I think they're called, hunt before the introduction of horses? Did they hunt Buffalo then?
Are there are good English-language sources about the Peabiru path in South America? I have good access privileges.
I'm about 100 pages into 1491 by Charles C. Mann, but it's the first edition. What am I missing out on in the latest edition, and should I stop reading this one and buy the latest edition?
does anyone have any good books/resources to learn about the kabbalah/jewish mysticism?
How influential was Erasmus within the Iberian peninsula? Who supported him and revered his ideas and who was against his teachings?
Can anyone recommend good sources (preferably firsthand) about the first Thanksgiving?
By tradition, the Speaker of the House invites the President of the United States to deliver the State of the Union address. What's the origin of this tradition? How old is it? Did the Speaker extend this invitation when the SotU was a written letter rather than an oration?
I remember hearing somewhere that some historians believe that humans did not engage in war until the invention of agriculture. Is there much merit to this views? And how popular/unpopular is it with historians?