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A Vice editorial article had this sentence:
I haven't been able to find this quote--is this something he actually said/wrote? Or more of a summary of Roosevelt's view of bad corporations/trusts? Thanks!
Did Congress continue to have elected representatives and Senators for seceded states during the Civil War? Or were these seats just empty if the delegates left?
"If a child hits their parents, that child shall have their arms cut off," was there ever a law like this? I think it was part of one of the first legal systems on Earth.
What happened to the 42 Aluet Alaskan Natives sent to a Japanese camp from the Japanese invasion of Attu island? What happened to Etta Jones? I can't imagine anything good, as they killed her husband and took her to the "Bund Hotel" prison camp.
But, the 42 Aleut inhabitants who survived the Japanese invasion were taken to a prison camp near Otaru, Hokkaido. Sixteen of them died while they were imprisoned.
Why imprison the Aleut when they didn't seem to send away any other Alaskan Natives from the Aleutian islands?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Attu
Edit
I was curious and googled a bunch of different ways, and finally found a very good article by the Anchorage Daily News:
(If anyone was curious, as well)
Edit 2
And, it seems Etta Jones had a book written about her. From the authors website:
The POW years are not a story of concentration camps, rape, murder and violence. They’re more about the slow torture of hunger, loneliness and isolation, but a very distinctly different kind of isolation from the kind Etta experienced in her beloved Alaska Native villages.
https://www.lastlettersfromattu.com/thestory.asp
Book is called:
"Last Letters from Attu:. The True Story of Etta Jones"
Attu was never resettled.
What US sources could tell me about the origin and life of a Captain William Ripner, who fought in the American revolution, and became a privateer captain in revolutionary France?
I've been following him through the European records, but I'm somewhat clueless about the US side of things. His ship, Le Petit Diable, and her crew spent about six months in Norway, and left one of their cannon in the small coastal community of Loshavn as payment or gratitude for their help. It's still there, and is supposedly the reason the British didn't land and wipe out our village during the privateer war.
where can I find reputable sources online that are peer reviewed? I want to expand my historical literature.
Hey, i have recently found a Anti-Tank training video of the US Army, in it they use a tank as demonstration. Does anyone know what tank that is, as i have never seen a tank that looks like this before.
Why did ancient civilization first sprang around the fertile crescent and why did other areas (china/india) take centuries longer to appear?
I am reading a book called “Rise and Kill First” by Ronen Bergman. In the book the author explains a lot of secret hits by the Isrelian secret service. What the author does not explain is how a lot of these sercet hits are now public knowledge, can someone explain why and how we know about them now?
Saw a post while back talking about a forgotten General from the US civil war I believe. Long story short, the General didn’t fight in major battles, was a quiet professional but was an absolute badass.
What was his name?
Why is Before Present used being used instead of Before Common Era? I mean if I wrote a paper that said islam started 1,400 BP and my great-great-great grandkids were to read it without knowing when it was written the date could be off by a century? is it exclusively used with carbon dating?
I am looking for book recommendations: Spanish history of the XIX Century.
Because, honestly, I know very little of it; and I keep finding references to revolutions, claimants, dynastic wars - which all sound far more interesting than the broad and generic picture of a dull and dour decline of the once great Empire...
During German reunification, was it really common for people from the West to come to the East and occupy empty flats/apartments?
Who was Alessandro Benevento? He was apparently involved in the fall of the Roman Empire between 1204-1260. I’m doing a model UN where I have to be him. However, there’s very little information if any. Could someone help me out?
In the last days of WW2 before his suicide, would Hitler have physically heard the sounds of Soviet weapons being fired in Berlin? Maybe artillery and tank rounds?
How about small arms?
How effective were secondaries on Dreadnoughts? The wiki says "Naval historians covering this period disagree on the value of the secondary battery."
I love history, specially medieval times, is there any book in English that was written during medieval ages that you can buy online? Like a replica or a copy of a book from those days, i would love to know latin but since i do not know that i think English would be the best to start with
Can anyone tell me roughly how big (square miles) London was around the late 18th century?
How were American troops transported to Asia during the wars of the mid 20th century ( WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War)?
Where and when did Europeans start naming their dogs Sultan?
Who said "one man can make a difference, and everyone should try"? JFK or Thomas Cronin?
Anybody knows a good website where I can quickly see news related to history? Going to research paper sites is too tedious to do in the morning while drinking coffee.
I want to write a paper for uni on how ancient rome and greece influenced modern western law, political structure, freedom of speech etc.
Some months ago i asked a similar question on the book recommendation thread because i wanted to go as far back as hammurabi, but i decided to focus on greece and rome since theres a lot more material to work with. Could someone reccomend me some books?
What books would be recommended for a beginning overview of the Napoleonic Wars? Something like McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom would be an ideal level of detail/depth.
How effective were railway guns in the American Civil War?
If USA and Cuba was in hostile terms even then, how did USA get permission to build Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba in the early 2000s?
When bills become law, the headline usually reads, President ____ signs law that _____. My question is, does the president deserve the credit for passing these laws? Isn't most of the work done in the legislature?
Thank you 😁
Is there a name for the conical hats the ancient Phoenicians are often depicted in.
I recently finished reading 'Kaigun', and 'Sunburst,' detailing the history and organization of the Imperial Japanese Navy as well as the Naval air arm.
I was curious of there are any books of similar quality which discuss the Imperial Japanese Army and it's Air Force. If at all possible, I'm looking at something that takes a more technical approach in a similar manner to the aforementioned books.
Thanks!
So Genghis Khan had this huge horde of mounted archers, right? But the great Steppe is pretty much devoid of trees, so where did he get the wood for the arrows?
"... in Angola, where until very recently malcontents' lips were pierced in order to shut them with padlocks." Does anyone know of this/have a source? It's from Jean-Paul Sartre's preface to a 1967 edition of 'Wretched of the Earth' by Frantz Fanon.
When did America's slave population surpassed Brazil's?
How did Roman mythology/religion differ from Greek? (Please let me know, r/AskHistorian mods if this question is too broad for this thread... I'm a bit on the fence about it's scope myself.)
In school, I was taught simply that Roman mythology was the same as Greek--change the names around, and there you go. EG Jupiter from Zeus. But I guess what I'm asking is, aside from myths of Roman invention (EG Romulus and Remus) how much, if at all, did the Roman mythology and pantheon differ from the Greek, outside of the nouns they knew it by? For example, did the Romans tell stories of Jupiter on Mount Olympus, or some other mountain? Did their creation story involve the Titans? Was there a Roman version of Heracles, Jason, or Odysseus? I guess what I'm asking, in simpler terms, is did the Romans have their own unique mythology/religion or were they simply Greeks by another name?
Okay another similar question for any Roman scholars out here... well, two, I guess.
Where did the Romans come from? IE, the people who founded the city of Rome surely originated somewhere... but where?
A more general question about ancient Mediterranean history... just how "empty" was the world when all these colonies were being founded? When Rome was founded, Italy was clearly already inhabited (the Sabine, for one)... but were there large swaths of unclaimed, uninhabited territory throughout the Mediterranean?
What is the 1920s slang word or euphemism for someone who is wild in the bedroom?