I had an extremely productive day at the Nebraska National Guard Museum yesterday. My research enabled the state historian to place five more names on the commemorative shirts (last year's shirt) for the "Run to St. Lo" memorial 5K/1 mile run/walk which honors the 134th Infantry Regiment's battle for St. Lo (15-27 July 1944), bringing the total up to 51. Several small errors relating to the museum's new (dedicated last July 4) "Telegram Wall/The Price of Freedom" exhibit were also corrected, mostly relating to previously unknown birth dates or places of burial. I'm also currently preparing about sixteen gigabytes of military documents relating to the 134th for permanent digital preservation at the museum library.

I personally maintain that the Hong Kong Maritime Museum is still basically the best specialist history museum in Hong Kong, and the new special exhibition on the American mercantile community in China from 1785 to 1900 has done nothing to temper my enthusiasm.

There was a great variety of objects on display, with letters, contemporary paintings, ships' models, medicine chests, commodities etc., and I thought it did get across a good sense of what was going on, not just the mechanisms of exchange but also, albeit to a more limited extent, life in Macao, Canton and the legation quarters. Also, and rather out of nowhere, there were six paintings of the 1850s/60s depicting scenes from the Taiping War at the end (I can only assume they had too little space for too many objects, or were hinting at the preservation of Taiping source material in American collections), including this one, this one, probably this one, I think this one and maybe this one? I did take my own pictures so I can compare them against these once I transfer them to a screen I can actually look at.

I've just started work at Lohamei haGetaot (The Ghetto Fighter's Kibbutz Museum) as part of my internship for my masters program. Lohamei haGetaot is the world's first Holocaust museum, founded by survivors in 1949. It's located on a working kibbutz just north of Acco. Survivors of the camps and of ghetto uprisings decided to build the kibbutz while most were still recovering in DP camps. Among the founders was Zivia Lubetkin, the only woman among the upper echelons of the ZOB during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. While the survivors still lived in tents, they built a small hut to house the documents and objects they had smuggled out of Europe. I'm working in their library, cataloging their English and Yiddish book collections, and working with their education department.

This is a question is for those who work in art museums. How the heck does the glass stay so clean and clear over paintings? Unless you look at a specific angle really close, you can't see any reflection.

Hi, are there any historians of Rome, Egypt, and Persia for any subset of the time period from 30 BC - 1400 AD available for a paid consult?

I'm writing an alt-history fantasy novel that has a point of divergence at Actium (Cleopatra/Antony win +magical elements) and I have a timeline for those three regions till the time period my story is set - 1400AD.

I am willing to pay an hourly consulting fee for what I'm guessing would be ~3-5 hours of discussion plus ~3-5 hours of pre-reading and prep but of course that will be negotiable based on rate/scope/availability. Thanks!

Is there a history of major american banks out there? I know Zamagni recently completed a history of Banca IMI in Italy, so I was wondering if there was something similar for a bank like JP Morgan, chronicoling their evolution through various aquisitions and regulatory changes.

Just popping in to ask if anyone has any recommendations on literature about the Spanish Civil War. I know a little about it and would love to learn more

Are there any Marxist historians in this subreddit?

Has anyone heard of the Chronicles of America series from the early 20th century, edited by Allen Johnson? Is the history in it fairly accurate? I expect it's dated in many ways, but I'm wondering how well it's held up and whether it's worth reading. Thanks!

I've had an idea about doing something on t'internet whereby I present historical stuff by means of badly drawn stick figures. This kind of stemmed from making notes for myself while reading up on the Wars of the Roses recently.

Now I'm aware of things like Extra History and Dan Carlin, and also aware of how much flak they get around here.

Is anyone out there able and willing to proofread things for me and help me, if this works, to be historically pukka?

Hello to everybody, this is my first post on Reddit after years of fine lurking and I hope this is a suitable thread for my request. I would appreciate a recommendation for books on the French war in Algeria, I've seen a four year old comment in the sub that described the book «A Savage War of Peace» as obsolete.