I'm taking off for a two week trip to my beloved NW California tomorrow. I'm stoked. I have a few interviews lined up and a foray deep into the historical records of the Gold Rush period in a nearby county. I also have a few hikes planned and the wildflowers ought to be spectacular. Cheers.

My friends and I are doing a Drunk History party. What is an entertaining historical event that I can talk about for 5 minutes while blackout drunk? Something lite on details would be nice.

Does anyone have good books relating to aerial combat in ww2?

Does anyone know of any good primary sources of non-european travellers travelling in Europe like pre-1800s and recording their observations? I'm mainly interested in opinions of the architecture, music and art of Europe. I might try creating a post for this if I get no good responses.

I've been reading /u/Snapshot52's informative Monday Methods posts about Amerindian genocide denial and there's one point I'm confused in regards to intention in the role of genocide and how it changes what is labelled genocide.

Being Canadian, I'm more familiar with the history of Indigenous peoples here. From my understanding, the British and French came to the lands now known as Canada to settle and make $$$ off the natural resources. But societies throughout history have sought to expand their lands for further settlement and displaced the original inhabitants to do so and not been labelled genocidal. Is the differentiation that European settlers tried to make Indigenous peoples assimilate through cultural practices very quickly (for example, send your children to residential schools to be re-educated immediately as opposed to a gradual process of intermarriage)?

I'm not arguing that there wasn't an Indigneous genocide, I'm looking for clarification on why it (and the Holocaust, and the Armenian genocide, etc.) are referred to as genocides but not older events like Khan's Mongol invasion.

(Thanks in advance for reading this obviously-not-from-an-academic comment!)

Does anyone know where I can read about the way in which businesses operated during Jim Crow era? Were they all segregated? and also the way in which this was seen culturally during Jim crow and also as private businesses had to desegregate. Maybe a couple books I have to read there...hehe

Could anyone recommend a solid intro to European history that has an audio version? Preferably on Audible? Roberts' book is on there, but it's narrated by Frederick Davidson, a man whose grating, nasal voice could tempt Gandhi to violence.

My US history is excellent, and my Asian history is pretty good, but, for some reason, I just kind of skipped Europe. I know that I could just read the physical version of Roberts, but with my awful vision, I prefer listening.

How different are Modern Historians today compared before?

One of my old highschool history teachers once told us about this guy sent by the French government to study the American people. One of his more interesting findings that he put in his report was that while in many European cultures, food is this big thing you do with your family, in America it was just something we did to not die. Does anyone know the name of who I’m talking about? I wanna look for that report

I'm interested to see if Germany has museums dedicated to Prussia? I was in Berlin and didn't see anything of their military history unlike Paris and London which has detailed museums. Does Germany have the same scale?

Hello. I'm trying to bring in arguments related to aspects of agriculture in rigvedic period. My primary source is rigveda family books (mandala 2-7) I'm referring to translation by stephanie Jamison and Joel P. Brereton which my professor has strictly told me adhere to and I can't do anything about this. Problems. 1.the translated version shows several discrepancies for example when I'm reading Jan Gonda a history of Indian literature R.V. VI. 49.15 translate refer to word cultivator but Stephanie Jamison translation doesn't. 2.land which has several features such as pasture land, cultivated land, barren land all have been translated into one whereas the vedic index mentions difference between urvara and kshetra. 3.im trying to look into Michal Witzel work but most of the things seem too codic. Also the German indology school has its own references and footnotes so secondary literature most of them have not been translated yet. I'm looking at R. S sharma work as well though he has a stern opinion that rigvedic society was primarily pastoral whereas some references of agriculture can be found and as person related to history we cannot discard the opinion of agriculture being prevalent though in a primitive form. Please provide valuable feedback ASAP. Thanks a lot.