Hope you all are doing well! After a few encouragements from the shoutouts given in the Sunday Digest. I'd like to apply for the Flair of "Kingdom of Italy: 1861-1946". I'm also a recent graduate of the University of Alabama with a Bachelor of Arts in History, with a focus on European New-Imperialism, obtained in 2014.

These are two answers I have given relating to Italy's industrial state in the leadup to the world wars, namely why they lagged behind the other Great Powers of Europe.

Here I went in-depth on just how involved Italy was with the Holocaust. I did address a rather controversial claim that the Italian Racial Laws passed had at least a subtle intention to smooth relations with Nazi Germany to pave the way for the Pact of Steel, it's certianly up for debate but Mussolini's quotes at least seem to back this claim up, whether he can be believed or not is still up for debate.

Here I answered why the Italian Army struggled on the frontline against Austria-Hungary in WWI, with further explanation here in a separate answer.

Here and here were some Sunday Digest shoutouts I received, including an answer I'm proud of regarding whether Constantine XI's reputation as the last Byzantine Emperor was earned or just legend.

I suppose I should probably apply for a flair at this point, especially now that I've got messages from people like /u/sunagainstgold asking me to :p

I'd like to apply for the flair "Medieval Europe | Chivalry and the Crusades". The reason for this is that I am currently wrapping up my Medieval Studies MA, and will be starting a PhD project in September on... you guessed it, chivalry and the Crusades.

Here are some of my more recent answers:

In the middle ages, it was apparently customary in England for the fountains of London to flow with wine upon the coronation of a new king. How was this achieved exactly?

Was King Richard I of England gay, bisexual or straight?

I am a crusader who just completed the First Crusade and took the Holy Land! Now what?

Thomas F. Madden.....well regarded?

Were the Assassins really prolific enough as assassins to deserve being the eponym of the same, or were they victims of character assassination?

Not medieval but a couple of other answers I like:

Are conclusions reached by historical reenactors or people who are "living history" taken seriously by modern scholars? Have legitimate advancements in our understanding of historical life been the result of things like this before?

Last night, on Question Time, the BBC's flagship political show, Jacob Rees-Mogg defended the use of concentration camps in the Boer War. He asserted that the mortality rate in the camps was similar to that of Glasgow, and that the occupants of camps were interned for their own safety. Is he right?

Flair me for finding FAQs, if you please. Not all of these answers were strictly drawn from the official FAQ lists,

• What archers do when they run out of arrows
• in re: Year Zero and Anno Domini
• Criminal Justice in the Third Reich (before I figured out the three-user limit on pings)
• Porajmos Aftermath
• Right-Wing US Republicans in the 20th century
• The role of the Haganah in Israeli independence
• British Morale in WWI
• David Irving
• David Irving's reputation
• Spanish anarchism
• Holocaust survivors and historiography.
• Access from West Berlin to West Germany and beyond
• General George B. McClellan and his foibles
• The development of American dialects (SASQ)

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Plus more answers in SASQ threads.

Hello, I would like to apply for a flair. I recently finished my Bachelors in History and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, and will be moving on to King's College London for a MA in History of War. For my undergraduate dissertation, I compared the censorship systems of Chiang Kai-shek's Guomindang and Wang Jing-wei's Reformed Government during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

I would like to apply for a flair in 'Second Sino-Japanese War', which has been the main focus of my research.

Answers related to the war would be:

A recent answer on Operation Ichigo, which was featured on the AskHistorians Twitter.

A multi-part answer on Chiang Kai-shek's studies and Chinese involvement in the Japanese Army Academy, which was featured on the Sunday Digest and nominated for Best of January.

Talked about the breaching of the Yellow River dikes in 1938 and its ecological impact here, which was featured on the Sunday Digest.

Besides the War of Resistance, I also answer questions on wartime Japan and modern Chinese history.

Here I explained why the Japanese were so resolved to fight and die in WWII, which was featured on the Sunday Digest.

Here I question the use of Ohnuki-Tierney's Kamikaze Diaries in interpreting the backgrounds of Kamikaze pilots.

My latest answer, on the hypothesised Chinese origins of the 1918 flu epidemic.

Thank you for your consideration!

Hello!

While I studied History up to a (unfinished for medical reasons) Master degree, I'm essentially an amateur in the field of Celtic, Roman and Frankish Gaul in particular, and Late Antiquity in general. I also dabbled in map making for historical atlases.
I'll go with Georgy_K_Zhukov and ask for a flair in Celtic, Roman and Frankish Gaul; with the following caveat : I'm not a native English-speaker, which sometimes make my answers a bit convoluted or confusing, and I don't have as much access to English-language sources than I like, mostly using French-language sources on the topic that I'm not sure OP or anyone interest can have access to for fact-checking or further study.

Some contributions and answers I feel being best are :

Do the stories of the Celtic natives of Gaul/Britain burning huge wickerman structures full of people have any truth to them?
Why do we always envision the Gauls of antiquity with big Bismarckian-like moustaches? (Which was followed by a short exchange on the meaning of "Gallia Comata")
After the conquest of Gaul by Rome why did none of the surviving tribe's try to rebel during the numerous civil wars following the conquest.Is it true the Battle of Tours the main reasons the Western World is Christian ?

(While not specifically dealing with Gaul proper, (admittely it doesn't come that often), these covers a fair bit about it.
How did the medieval Western European states utilise Roman institutions and their legacy?
What were the causes of viking raids on europe and britain?
What's the culture impact of various Germanic people in Western Europe/Southern Europe/Northern Africa who no longer exist?

I didn't really have the opportunity to post about Roman Gaul yet, tough. (Ironically, most of my posts dealt with Late Ancient and Early Medieval Britain). So I'd understand if you think this part should be scrapped or requires more content to allow a flair.

Hi, I'm u/ANordWalksIntoABar. I am a graduate student studying modern European history with a particular focus on Italian history. Most of the projects I have worked on cover European nationalism, colonialism, and emigration. I am applying for a flair in "19th Century Italy" or "19th Century Europe".

Here are some of the more specific questions I have answered:

Why did absolutism centralize the French State and not Italy and Germany?

In the 19th century, what influenced North Italians to migrate to South America and Southern Italians to migrate to North America?

Why didn't Italy unify sooner?

How socially mobile were nineteenth century immigrants in America compared to social mobility in the lands they came from?

How do historians define colonialism when comparing late imperialism with the empires of antiquity? I am not the top comment on that thread so I linked directly to my comment.

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Loving the sub. It's a great outlet for public history!

Gankom always says I should apply for flair…I thought I might be too new for that, but I’ll try anyway!

I have a PhD in medieval history. I worked in the academic world briefly, and I’ve published a few articles and I’m still working on some other projects. But I don’t teach at a university, so my shelves are full of books and my brain is stuffed with trivia, and this is a great outlet for all of that.

I work on social/legal history in the crusader states, medieval law, and generally medieval history in the 11th-13th centuries. I can also answer stuff about Byzantium and medieval Islam, and Roman law although I try to leave Roman questions to the classicists.

I know there are some other medieval posters…I see Hergrim and J-Force a lot, and I see J-Force just got some crusades flair too, so I don’t know if you want to give out more crusades flair right away. But I’m not a military historian, if that helps, so I tend not to answer the questions about warfare, knights, armour, castles, etc…

Here are some answers I’m pretty fond of:

Was Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf as benevolent as he is often portrayed?

I'm living in Ancient Rome and I just murdered someone. What chances do I have of getting caught?

Was there much contact between the Crusader states and the Mongol empire?

I'm a Crusader heading towards the Holy Land in 1096. How much do I understand about Islam?

How did medieval European monarchs handle twins?

It is the High Middle Ages and I have been elected as a Bishop in England, what would be my travel arrangements and my journey be like when I go to collect my pallium in Rome?

So I guess I would suggest “Crusader states | Medieval law” ? (Nobody ever asks about medieval law...but someday, just in case...)

Hello! Following u/Georgy_K_Zhukov's suggestion, I would like to apply for flair. The information requested is below, but I would like to add that some of my answers that I list below do not come within the 6-month cutoff period. I hope this isn't a disqualifier for flair, as I think questions about my area of speciality don't come too often. Nonetheless, I look forward to your response!

Flair: "Theatre History"

Links to answers I have provided:

- Answer 1: How and when did acting become a reputable profession?

- Answer 2: Why do actors talk so oddly in American 1950s sitcoms?

- Answer 3: How did the Elizabethan theatre world become professional?

- Answer 4: Why do historians care about the dates of Shakespeare's plays? What difference does their exact date make?

Qualifications:

I have a PhD in Theatre in which I defended my dissertation arguing that monastic communities in the Middle Ages not only practiced the performance of drama, but were incredibly literate in theatricality. In fact, they used liturgical tropes in highly theatrical ways to comment on the social, political, and religious issues of their day, therefore constituting a wider European cultural marker for a medieval monastic theatre. I have published articles in peer-reviewed academic journals in my field and contributed chapters to academic books dedicated to theatre and theatre history.

Thank you for your consideration.

EDIT: Added more information.

Hello! I am not a historian by trade or degree, though I did minor in history during my undergrad, with a focus on European & Mediterranean religions during the medieval and early modern periods. My interests have grown to include military history, especially the doctrinal & institutional history of the Soviet military, and more recently the interaction between societies, war, and military institutions. The flair "Soviet Military History | Society And Conflict" seems to encapsulate it. I hope these recent answers satisfy the panel:

Why did large numbers of Russian soldiers during WW2 surrender in the opening stages of 'Operation Barborossa'? (featured on the Sunday Digest)

Why didn’t the Soviet Union use paratroopers during World War II? (featured on the Sunday Digest and the AH twitter!)

Conscription of women into the Red Army during World War II

What was the conscription process of the USSR recruiting Central Asian men to fight in WWII? (featured on the Sunday Digest)

Schism, Gemeinschaft and the Chosen People: The Continuity of Jewish Experience Through the German Reformation [European History Floating Feature/Summer Flair Drive]

Thanks! If these aren't sufficient, I look forward to working with the panel to improve my application for the future.

I'd like to modify my flair a bit to be more specific than my way-too-generic East and Southeast Asian Studies label. I'd like to change it to "Philippine Studies | Modern China and Taiwan | Modern Viet Nam". For the purposes of my application, I consider modern Viet Nam to be about late-Le Dynasty to now, and there is a rationale for that: that is, VN reached its modern shape and encompassed its current peoples during this time, resulting in what are now different regional cultures. So for VN I submit these:

The Tay Son Rebellion (multiple part answer)

Cultural differences between north and south at the time of the Viet Nam War

Relationship between Cambodia and Viet Nam during the Indochina Wars

Also, for fun, a set of book recommendations I made to a reader for the Philippines and Viet Nam

For China and Taiwan:

Han settlement of Taiwan under the Qing

Taiwanese response to the US severence of relations

The relatively recent development of the Han ethnicity

The position of the Guomindang regarding the PRC

Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping during the Cultural Revolution

And then of course there are the additions I made to the book list for Asia. I'm not sure if that counts, but they are all concentrated in these three areas.

I didn't put anything for the Philippines because I think it's already pretty well-known among the mods and the other flairs of my history of responses there.

Thanks!

So I have been a bit reluctant to apply for a flair, but thought nothing ventured nothing gained. If approved, something along the lines of "British Empire in the World Wars" would be nice.

Some contributions

1. On hygiene in the Great War

2. On cavalry in the Great War

3. Critique of Grossman and SLA Marshall

4. On some of the realities facing the Germans at Dunkirk

5. Not a long answer but derived from original source regarding officer casualties in the Great War

6. On British tank development in the second war

7. On troglodyte warfare in the Great War

Thanks.

Hello mods of r/AskHistorians! I've linked some answers below which I think qualify me for the honorific flair "History of Russia | Soviet Union and Late Imperial Period" (57 characters).

• Why didn't the Soviet Union annex the Warsaw Pact countries?
• How was Trotsky and Trotskyist theory viewed in the Soviet Union post Stalin and Destalinification? (three-part response)
• Why did Mikhail Gorbachev give the title of President to himself when he had already secured his power as General Secretary?
• Was the Bolshevik revolution the only major point at which Russia became the opponent of the West, or were there other reasons for this change in their geopolitical role?
• Why was Alexander I of Russia succeeded not by his brother Constantine, but his other brother Nicholas I?

The first four answers refer to the "Soviet Union" component of my flair application, and the final two answers refer to the "Late Imperial Period." I answered this question about the Norman/Anti-Norman debate and another which gave an overview of the late imperial period and why a revolution similar to the French Revolution didn't occur contemporaneously as well, and alongside the entire collection of answers above, I believe that justifies the "History of Russia" header.

Thanks for your consideration and time spent modding this most excellent of subs.

Hello! I have been told I may qualify for a flair! Huzzah!

I am a PhD History candidate (hoping to be Dr next year), a public historian and political scientist (MSc African Studies). I specialise in the military, political, and environmental history of southern Africa (South Africa in particular). This includes the Anglo-Zulu Wars, the Anglo-Boer Wars, South Africa's involvement in WWII and WWI, the South African Border War, (almost any other war South Africa has found itself in), Apartheid and African/South African politics, nature and animal conservation and agriculture, endangered species ecology and hunting/tourism etc. Though the SABW is by far my most studied subject.

As an extension of this, I have thoroughly researched Apartheid and the socio-political and economic structures of South Africa since the late 1800's. To add to this, I also focus on PTSD in war veterans as I have a BA degree in clinical psychology and this helps inform my studies. To that end, military psychology is also one of my study areas.

Environmental history is one of my passions as I have a background in African environmental conservation and plan to expand on this with more projects and research in 2020 along with more work on the SABW and African history (will be relaunching my podcast, blog and YouTube channel after I've completed my PhD). So, lots of exciting stuff ahead!

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So that's my background! The flair I would like to apply for please is: Southern African Military, Political, & Environmental History | Military Psychology

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Or whatever variation of that suits your moderation :)

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Here are the threads I have answered in thus far:

What would the soldiers of the various groups in the South African Border War have understood to be what they were fighting for?

On the ethnic makeup and political divide of soldiers in the SADF

On the relationships between black SADF soldiers and SWAPO

A brief history of the SABW

On Shinkolobwe and the connection between the Congo, Uranium and WWII

On my current doctoral research

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I hope that is sufficient, please let me know if you need any other details!

I'm not really sure how two different colors of flair would work, or even what to make the title since "England and Scandinavia c.600-1066' is already a mouthful, but I am interested in expanding my flair to incorporate religious history, specifically conversion to Christianity in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Here are three answers from the past six months to support it! (There isn't a separate 'sources' section in these answers, but all mention the sources I'm using, I'm happy to create such a section if you'd like)

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/cttai9/you_often_hear_about_how_and_when_christianity/expuz1w/

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/diudkr/ancient_egypt_was_dominated_by_people_who/f3z8rle/

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/cypp19/how_exactly_was_marriage_in_prechristian_europe/eytr0kq/

So I was asked if I had considered applying for a flair and I think one of "Equine History | Horsemanship as a Technology" would probably be appropriate given my previous answers and interests, though I am open to suggestions. It would probably best fit as a technology or other flair.

Here are some of my past answers on AskHistorians

• History of the British Army Remount Department - Pre WW1
• Before the US Army Remount Service
• SSgt Reckless, USMC
• Operation Cowboy: Saving the Lipizzaners of the Spanish Riding School
• The Equid Cost of the Boer War
• Training the US Cavalry: According to an 1862 Manual
• Training Ancient Warhorses
• On the origin of bits
• On the origin of riding
• Understanding Horses and Wealth SASQ
• Myth: Horses were too small to ride

I suspect my primary issue to be the "Recent" requirement as some of the answers are 6 months or older...life does get in the way at times. If so, I'll happily reapply later.

Thanks for putting up with my horse madness!

I know the last thing the world needs is more European historians, but I think I will go ahead and apply. I'm a graduate student with training in 20th century European cultural history, focusing especially on France, Germany, and Britain, and mostly on the period 1870-1945. In the sake of transparency, I also am a former flair-holder as u/CaptainPyjamaShark on the Russian Civil War, but I deleted my account. The Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War was the topic of my undergraduate thesis, but it's not the focus of my current work.

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I'd like to apply for a flair of "Modern Europe | Culture, Gender, & War."

Here is an answer I have explaining why the French Republic sent Napoleon to invade Egypt, focusing on both the political and cultural justifications for the expedition.

I wrote this answer to explain why Napoleon III was popular in France during his reign, why opposition to him was weak, and yet why regardless the Second Empire vanished so easily.

In this post I argued against the idea that Vichy France constituted a "shield' for its population against the Nazis. I also talked about France in the Second World War in this short answer on the complications of joining the French Resistance, and in which I tried to hint at the gendered aspects of that question, which interest me.

Finally, I got to indulge my interest in the history of gender and war in this post on the frequency and nature of drag-show performances in the British Army during the Great War.

I've just had my third mention in Interesting and Overlooked Posts by /u/Gankom, so this is my first attempt at a flair application. I am currently three term-papers away from receiving an MA in Medieval Studies, with more grad work to come, and my specialty is the history of institutionalized education; specifically, the development and social role of medieval universities. Naturally, however, this doesn't come up very often. I have also worked as a professional historian for private and government institutions in North America, which has led me to accumulate what I hope is a good general knowledge of North American social history. I am also reasonably well-versed in the history of film. My suggestion for a flair would be "Medieval Education | North American Social History," but I leave that to your discretion. My three mentioned responses are as follows:

Why was Canada never included in the American Revolution? Did they have self rule during the period of salutary neglect? Were the settlers there Anglican? What was up there at the time?

In the American Civil War were there any Southern loyalists? If so did they have any notable impact in the Civil War?

The 1921 death of actress Virginia Rappe after a wild Hollywood party is considered one of the first major scandals in Hollywood. What actually happened to Rappe, and how did the subsequent trials impact the American public's opinion of the film industry and faith in the criminal justice system?

No hard feelings if you don't feel like you can grant a flair, though feedback would be appreciated. Thanks for your time.

Hi there all! I deal mostly with Ottonian Germany and Byzantium in the late Dark Ages, though the Byzantine part isn't all that well reflected in my pool of answers. I hold a BA in liberal arts with a concentration in the Classics, which hides the fact that I used my classical languages almost solely to better understand medieval Europe.

An overlong discussion on the nature of Empire and the early HRE (This is just a wall of text, I apologize in advance)

Some of my thoughts on the feudal system

A discussion on Western Feudalism measured against the Byzantine Thematic System

A rambling discussion on the medieval Christian idea of religious war

I hope that my contributions make me worthy in your eyes of receiving the flair I want. If not, I'll keep trying, because for me, being a social scientist is about striving to be better, to learn more, and trying to help others in the process.

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I would like to apply for the flair "International Relations and Politics|Historical Musicology". Edit 1: I've reconsidered and I believe that more specificity was necessary, so I believe a more focused flair would be "International Relations, Geopolitics and Policy | Historical Musicology".

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I studied International Relations at the Catholic University of Córdoba (Argentina), and I'm currently studying to be a history professor, with a focus in the history of politics and international relations in the context of State-based societies. I'm also a violinist and I have a deep interest in historical musicology, and I give lectures of music appreciation and music history at the Catholic University of Chile, particularly in Santiago at Casa Central (the University's main building) and occasionally at Oriente Campus (where the Music Institute [IMUC] is located).

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As for my contributions;

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Regarding international relations, geopolitics and policy:

• Here I talked about the international relations and policies in play during the Nigerian Civil War, which was featured in the Sunday Digest of June 24–June 30.
• Here I described the politics surrounding propagandistic inventions in relation to Roman advertising, which was featured in the Sunday Digest of July 08–July 14.
• Here I analyzed the current influence of Eurocentrism (undoubtedly one of the key elements that have defined geopolitics in history), and some counterarguments that have emerged in recent times, which was featured in the Sunday Digest of July 15-July 21.
• Here I spoke about the influence of the Basque fueros in Adams's ideas, when it came to justifying the characteristics of the US Constitutions.

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Regarding Historical Musicology:

• Here I detailed the musical development of the Dada artistic movement, whether or not it can be described as music, and dodecaphonism as a Dada-influenced composition style.
• In, if I'm not mistaken, last week's Trivia, I referenced a fascinating study in neuroscience that focuses on finding the genetic causes of absolute pitch, which could help us know more about the family history of musicians and composers who had AP.
• In yesterday's Trivia, I spoke about the fascinating history of the piano, its invention by Bartolomeo Cristofori, and Ferdinando de' Medici's patronage of the inventor/invention.

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Recommendations:

• Two recommendations I made regarding, in part, policy on the one hand, and international relations and geopolitics on the other. In both instances, I described the sources I was recommending:
  • Here I recommended books about Italy's renaissance period. Firstly, a book that analyzes the birth of renaissance Italy's banking system, international trade and economic relations. Secondly, a work that describes the importance of war and bad diplomacy in Machiavelli's thinking. Lastly, a book about microhistory of renaissance Italy's everyday life. This one was also featured in the Sunday Digest of July 08–July 14-
  • Here I recommended works regarding the US' imperialism/colonialism in Latin America. Two of them are written from very ideologically different perspectives. The last three are by Latin American authors Walter Mignolo and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, and touch upon the political, economical and cultural impacts that the United State's international policies, known as the Monroe Doctrine and America's Backyard, had in the development of modern Latin American States.

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Thank you all for your consideration.

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Edit 2: added two more specific answers pertaining the first part of my proposed flair.

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Edit 3: corrected formatting.

No idea if I qualify since I only have a few comments, but thought I might as well try haha. I'm not entirely sure what the best flair title would be, but I'm thinking "Early Imperial Chinese History," since many of my answers touch upon or make use of references to the Early Imperial era.

Sunday Digest Shout-out Responses:

What is the scholarly consensus on Chinese historiography?

Why did Chinese dynasties fall apart so often?

Did Medieval China have professional armies?

How did Chinese Civilisation survive for 5000 years while others couldn't

Why were the names of Chinese dynasties different than their family names and how were they chosen?

How was the first Song Emperor successful in uniting China, when no-one else had managed for 100 years?

Other answers:

In rural China during the Qing dynasty, how common were people with the ability to read and write Chinese? Were there people in every village with the ability the read and write? (I don't know if this counts as an answer since it's so short)

Edit: 2 of my answers have since gotten a shout-out

I post as u/grandissimo and am a historian who studies gambling and games, with a hefty serving of Las Vegas history and a side of organized crime. Ph.D. in U.S. History from UCLA, and a decent number of publications. Here are a few questions I've answered:

How did the mafia make money?

Were the violent events that occurred in the movie Casino (1995) common occurrence in casinos in the 1970s (the vise scene, alive burial, hand-breaking, etc.)? Were the heads of Casinos actually that brutal and unforgiving to cheaters?

J Edgar Hoover denied the existence of organized crime until he couldn't, after the 1957 Apalachin meeting; surely he knew better- what motivated him to take this public stance? Was the FBI's credibility affected when he was proven wrong?

Did Mario Puzo base the lore in "The Godfather" series on actual mafia contacts? Or did he just make stuff up?

How much truth is there to belief that the Mob built Las Vegas?

My humble suggestion for a flair is: Gambling and Games | Organized Crime. Happy to hear other ideas, though.

Amateur historian reporting in with an interest in the Low Countries during the medieval period, especially warfare and logistics in the high and late middle ages in that locale. I have tried to contribute over the course of several months but rather ironically my "hottest" posts have been about the Netherlands during the Second World War, which doesn't help my application immensely!

That being said, some on-topic answers I have submitted are on subjects such a:

• Whether the levy period was indeed 40 days.
• The required physical fitness of medieval "foot soldiers".
• Friend-or-foe identification in medieval warfare.
• Differences in the nature of warfare of the medieval period, and warfare in the ancient period / asia.
• Naval combat in medieval Europe.
• And most recently the logistics of raising an army in history, constraining myself to the high and late middle ages in what are now the Netherlands.

I have also used a Saturday Showcase to write on the heervaart. I have no other achievement or accolades to help my case, apart from the odd mention by the kind /u/Gankom (which many of us have!). A flair I could find myself in would perhaps be: The Low Countries 1000-1500 | Warfare & Logistics, potentially narrowed down to The Netherlands 1000-1500 | Warfare & Logistics as I have not had much opportunity to demonstrate knowledge about Flanders and/or Brabant.

EDIT: Neglected to mention that I have requested (and kindly received) feedback on my progress before, which made me withhold my application for some time in order to polish up on some things.

In case this is seen as a work in progress, feedback is - as always - very welcome.

Howdy!

I've decided to apply for flair and would love it if the staff would graciously have a look over my application. I would like to apply for the flair armchair historian Classical Warfare|Carthage in the category of European history or military history. I am a graduate student in Classics at the moment, with a concentration in history. I've written a few answers in the past, but I think these most accurately reflect my abilities and work:

The Mercenary War: A Tale of Escalation, Brutality, and the near Implosion of the Carthaginian State

What do we know about the Carthaginians?

What did Carthaginian colonization actually look like?

Gratias tibi ago!

Edit: slightly amended flair

Hi,

I was encouraged to apply for flair. My expertise is in the U.S. Civil War and North American slavery, so I suppose the flair I am applying for should be "U.S. Civil War and North American Slavery". I'm not an historian by trade but did minor in it in my undergrad studies, and have pursued self-study since.

Here are some of the answers I have submitted to the sub:

1. "Does the US Constitution allow for states to secede from the Union? What was the opinion on this before the Civil War?"

2. "During/in the lead up to the US Civil War, were there any prominent people in the North who opposed the war on the grounds that the Union would be better off without the South?"

3. "When did Americans start calling themselves/thinking of themselves as "American" vs. "New Yorker" or "Virginian"?"

4. "James Buchanan and Dred Scott Decision"

Thanks for the consideration!

I was encouraged to (re)apply for flair here by u/sunagainstgold some time ago. I've taken a small step back from this sub in recent months; had a new baby, started teaching a new class, etc. But I'm hoping to be able to become a bit more active again, so I figure it's time to brush up and resubmit my application.

I have degrees in both religious studies (MA, University of Chicago) and education (MEd, a small school you wouldn't have heard of). I'm currently teaching world history classes for college credit at a public high school. My flair would be something like "History of Christianity|Protestant Reformation."

Here's a post a made on the History of Religion and Philosophy floating feature a couple months back.

And a few questions I've answered:

Did two crusading armies ever fight each other while their kings were at war?

Why do Catholics and Protestants have a different version of the Lord's Prayer?

How aware were both the general nobility and the common people of the theological differences between Catholicism and Protestantism?

What happened to the Catholic church property after the reformation?

Thanks for your consideration and for all you do as mods!

I'd love to apply for flair in this excellent sub. I've really enjoyed contributing and I appreciate the courtesy and gratitude shown by many of the OPs in response to sufficient answers. The flair I'd like to display would be: [Scotland & Britain 1688-1788 | Jacobitism & Anti-Jacobitism] as part of the category of European History.

Here are a handful of my answers:

• Did any Scots take up arms against Bonnie Prince Charlie? (7 Nov 2019)
• Why did the Jacobites not fight on with guerrilla tactics after Culloden? (28 Aug 2019)
• What happened to military leaders in the UK during and after the last Jacobite Rebellion? (10 Aug 2019)
• At the Battle of Culloden, why were the Jacobites so far behind, technologically? (9 Jul 2019)
• What did British military recruitment look like in the Scottish highlands in the 18th century? (6 Mar 2019)

Any guidance on how the colors work would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks very much for considering my flair!

So nobody has explicitly told me to go for a flair, but I think I've gotten enough notifications at this point to finally get the hint already. I need to figure out exactly what to say since I have done a lot of research on Native America broadly featuring both North and South continental groups as well as those between, though I suppose it should be under North since my research into the South, though all my research is always ongoing, hasn't been quite as constant and consistent.

Here are my examples:

National symbols among indigenous Americans

The initial response of indigenous Americans to European arrivals

A lack of representation for indigenous Americans

This one I just did about why mestizos are more dense in some places

Cradles of Civilization

Two of these, I have been told, have been presented on Twitter, and so I trust they are good examples to share. They are also spread over the greater part of the past month, with one today, one 10 days ago, one over 20 days ago, and one a whole month ago, to show a decent level of activity (I hope).

While I don't remember for certain how much proper citation I have put into these posts individually, I can verify on request that I am using no less than 4 or 5 separate sources for each, each is considered through a critical lens, and two of them are firsthand accounts. I'm also working on Oceania, but I'll see about that when I feel more confident and can try out answering questions.

My hypothetical flair is, again, kinda hard for me to specify particularly. Maybe something like:

Texas History and indigenous urban societies in the Americas, which would cover what research I've done on Mesoamerica, the Andes, the Mississippians, and the Pueblos, while also encompassing my specialty with nations in Texas and identifying simultaneously Southeast, Southwest, and Plains cultural traits in this great crossroads. I have done fair amounts of study into Texas History broadly as well, as it is my native state and the required curriculum where I lived was quite comprehensive, as well as plenty of independent research with museums and various books, so at least for Texas I do believe I could qualify to cover White society as well. Maybe.

Anyways, that's my best shot. Texas History and indigenous urban societies in the Americas, or maybe featuring something like The Great Crossroads, Southeast, Southwest, and Great Plains cultures, as well, I don't know. Could rephrase "Indigenous urban societies in the Americas" to "Native American cities" maybe. This one might be better suited for the mods to decide, hypothetically speaking. I've had a lifelong issue of being too wordy and flowery, having at times been forced to rewrite things like lab reports upwards of seven times to continually make it more and more concise. So, in a limited space, the mods would probably do better than I can.

It's just awkward for me. Even just honing in on the Karankawa alone, it's incredibly interdisciplinary. The study of them crosses just as many lines as they, themselves, did, which makes it simultaneously fascinating and very hard to put in short words.

I've never really thought of myself as a historian, as my PhD and core expertise is in Bacteriophage Bioengineering, but I suppose that dissertation and a lot of my published scientific work have focused pretty significantly on the history of bacteriophage biology. Being in a scientific field that was much larger before the 1960s, and is experiencing a resurgence now, has given me a lot of room to really professionally focus on the historical investigation of my field, particularly while the last of the old-timers are still around. I suppose I could make sense as History of Molecular Biology and belong in History of Science and Technology.

• I wrote a detailed answer about the use of bacteriophages as medicines for infective disease, and why the Soviet Union was predisposed to excel in this field nearly a century before the West has begun to get it right in answer to Was the Soviet Union able to produce new research in fields like medicine, or did they rely entirely on foreign studies outside of areas they massively invested in like mathematics and space flight? I draw on and contextualize some of my own published work, historical scientific literature, as well as books and papers about the era.
• I wrote this answer about biological weapons, their conceivable purposes, and their limitations in modern conflicts as well as the history of Lyme disease and modern medicine to help a poster assess the credibility of claims that the United States biological weapons program is somehow responsible for the emergence of Lyme disease. I also was able to recycle it on metafilter where it got a lot more interest and generated more discussion.
• I wrote this answer to a question about the credibility of claims made by Neil deGrasse Tyson in a speech about how Islam somehow destroyed its own Golden Age with a religiously motivated anti-scientific ideology. I fact-check errors made in the video, but also interrogate his ideological framing of the relationship between science and religion and discuss the better framework for understanding this relationship in the 'Golden Age' of Dar-Al-Islam defended by George Saliba in his book.
• In response to a comment by sunagainstgold in a Monday Methods thread about Why You Should Not Get a History PhD (And How to Apply for One Anyway) where they write: "A history PhD will destroy your future and eat your children", I discuss how it can really not be stressed enough how accurate and literal this is from the horrified perspective of an academic working in another field.
• 6 years ago I wrote an /r/askhistorians answer that made it to the front page for a while and attracted a lot of attention that I don't think really meets the criteria that should be demanded here, but I have since cleaned it up significantly into something that I think very much would.

Any chance I could update my flair to include museum stuff? That's mostly where my concentration is nowadays - conservation, education, and collections management are my main focuses. I'd still like to have the Norse Culture and Warfare stuff kicking around, too, if that's cool.

I think I may qualify? I have a BS in Archaeological Studies, and will hopefully complete my Master's in Anthropology this spring! I have worked at the middle Mississippian site of Cahokia, and have worked with materials from cultures in the Great Lakes region. I have also done work looking at the exchange of lithic materials between groups along the Upper Mississippi River.

Comments of mine:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/d0hdx9/how_did_native_americans_deal_with_hurricanes_and/ezar9od/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/cz4ej4/tuesday_trivia_in_medieval_italy_one_way_people/eyxwuj3/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/9p92ju/what_forms_of_nobility_royalty_existed_within_the/e81p8ag/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8dz87o/are_there_any_significant_challenges_to_the_idea/dxub0vu/

I also enjoy commenting on the r/arrowheads subreddit, mainly to offer help to people looking to identify what objects they may have found and what they may have been made of. Not the same as commenting here, but I hope it shows that I kind of just like talking about this content with everyone and how much I enjoy the material.

Hello! Decided to apply after getting to some encouragement from readers. I graduated the University of Maine with an M.A. in History and wrote my thesis on the interactions between the French colonial projects and Native self-determination in early North America (broadly speaking). I'd like my flair to be "Indigeneity, Colonialism, and Empire - Early America". I usually study Indigenous peoples, preferably on their own terms, but that also means reckoning with British, French, and American colonialisms as well.

Questions I have answered:

• What was the defining moment in 19th - early 20th c. American expansionism that made it an 'Empire'?

• In the 1700s many people came to the American colonies for religious freedom yet they were mostly different sects of Christianity. What I’m wondering is if there was any record of people who followed other religious other than Christianity? What discrimination did they face, if any?

• How did Native American women deal with periods?

• How did the American Revolution effect Great Britain's treatment of its other colonial holdings?

Hello all! (Dajia Hao!),

I was recommended to apply for a flair here. I'm currently finishing up my undergraduate degrees in History (main) and anthropology (arch. track). I plan on attending graduate school by next fall as well. I specialize in modern Chinese history (anything really from 1895-1966+) but more specifically, I intensively study nation-building and propaganda in the Republican and Mao periods. So my flair could encompass something like "Nation-building and Propaganda in Republican China and the Early PRC." I also have some experience (linguistically and historically) with modern Japanese history as well, but not nearly as much as I do China!

Here are some answers I have contributed to in the sub recently.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/d1l4du/did_the_communist_party_in_china_encourage/ezsd2l8/?context=3
2. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/cx0var/did_manchukuo_have_any_sort_of_national_identity/eyiwbpv/?context=3
3. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/cpfulf/during_the_chinese_cultural_revolution_how_much/ewpnxqu/?context=3
4. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/d429ht/ussrs_role_in_chinese_civil_war/f09kh8v/?context=3

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Thanks for the consideration.

Hello :)

I would like to change my flair to 'Western Australian Colonialism', if I can.

My current flair has never sat well with me - I don't like dividing Indigenous history from mainstream Australian history, and I feel like I don't know enough about the rest of Australia to call myself an expert on it.

If my flair explicitly stated Western Australia, I would feel less guilty when I can't answer questions about wider Australia.

I've never had a question relate to Western Australia directly, but WA, Perth and the Wadjuk Nyungar people have always featured heavily in my answers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/bgpang/is_it_true_that_native_americans_and_australian/elnefkp/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/bngrej/was_there_ever_a_wild_west_era_in_australia/en75f90/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/chnmsz/why_didnt_the_japanese_aboriginals_have_huge/euz7ieq/?context=3
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/cjrikw/tuesday_trivia_femme_fatales_this_thread_has/evijk9s/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ch8va8/why_were_only_africans_used_as_slaves_by/euvisz4/?context=3
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/d9gkw5/a_post_about_native_australians_made_some/f1ioxlt/?context=3

Thank you.

Hello!

I'm an archivist from Sweden with a master's degree in history. My master's thesis consisted of a comparative study of military ideology in Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae and Vegetius' epitome De Re Militari and my main field of study was (or is), as you can imagine, late Roman military history. I would like to test my luck and apply for a flair today, even though I have only written three posts yet and only one of them was an answer to a question in the subreddit.

Here are my contributions so far:

• How did the Eastern Romans/Byzantines view the Latin West from their perspective as Romans themselves? Especially after the Sack of Constantinople
• Saturday Showcase | July 20, 2019: "The Later Roman Empire: Some Defining Features".
• Floating Feature: Cry ‘Havoc’ and let slip the stories from Military History

My suggestion for a flair would be something along the lines: "Late Roman Military Ideology" or "Late Roman Military | Vegetius ".

With all this said, I can totally understand if you think it may be a bit too early to award me with a flair.

If possible, I'd like to apply for a flair in "North American History" in a "Middle Eastern Petroleum Relations" if there is one?

After obtaining my bachelor in history I graduated about a month ago in a North American Studies master program in Europe. In short the program studies the rich history of the United States to better understand how it has become the country it is today.

As a topic for my master thesis, I studied the US Congress as a foreign policy player during the first oil deals with Saudi Arabia, from the first oil discoveries to the finalization of the Aramco Merger. I'm hoping to pursue my research in this topic through a PhD in American History.

As you can see, my answers listed below are all focused around the history and evolution of the American and Middle Eastern oil industry. I am aware that some of my answers are older than 6 months and this was due to a demanding 6 month research internship, which was part of my studies, in Washington D.C.

I also took extra courses on the side on Middle Eastern history and the history of Islam/the Quran (for which I had to write research papers), this explains the variety in my the questions I answered that are listed below.

• How did the Standard Oil split up came to be? Did Rockefeller try to buy his way in Congress to prevent it from happening?

• Are Saudi Arabia's Royal family just descendants of a bunch of dudes that helped the allies in ww2?

• When/how did Wahhabism first become associated with the Saudi royal family?

• Why did the UK grant independence to Qatar in 1971, an oil-rich peninsula occupied by just 100,000 people at the time.

• Saudi oil

• Jesus was raised Jewish; what was Mohammed raised? How did Islam acquire its traditional respect for 'people of the Book'?

Thank you for your consideration.

Hello! I would like to apply for a flair. I'm not a historian; I'm fact, I'm currently studying law. However, I love history, and I think I know enough for my answers to be helpful. My main areas of expertise are the Civil War era, from the antebellum through the war to Reconstruction, and the history of Gran Colombia and Simon Bolivar. I guess my flair could say something like "American Civil War | Gran Colombia."

Here's my answer on the cultural and political differences that caused Gran Colombia to fail.

Here's an answer on the economic downfall of Simon Bolivar, with a little about his political downfall.

I also answered why the Confederacy pursued such an aggresive war strategy during the Civil War.

My answer on whether Buchanan or others could have prevented the Civil War.

And finally, an answer about the citizenship of Confederates after the Civil War.

And although I literally wrote it just a couple of hours ago, I'd like to add my answer to a question related to Reconstruction.

At long last, I feel confident enough to apply for a flair!

If possible, I'd love to have "US Labor History | Worker's Movements, Organizations & Politics" as a flair if that isn't too long! This would most likely fall under North American History (and I suppose a red flair would match quite nicely with the flair text).

Here's some of my answers:

Why was Oklahoma so socialist in the early part of the 20th Century? - (answer featured on the AH twitter and the Sunday Digest!)

Why is there no popular Labour/Labor Party in the United States? - (featured on the Sunday Digest!)

In the days of sail ships being used as the primary mode of sea travel, what would sailors do to pass the time? - (featured on the Sunday Digest!)

From WW1 through the 1950s, many African Americans moved to major American cities to work in factories. What were conditions like for black workers versus white workers? Were factories segregated?

I really appreciate the consideration, and look forward to answering plenty of more questions here in the future!

I've been encouraged to apply for flair by two separate mods now, so here it is:

I am roughly halfway through a BA in History at the moment. Several years prior to this however, before life intervened, I was studying geography and geology, and I worked as a jack-of-all-trades in the collection of a small museum. My current area of focus, as I'm sure my username suggests, is horsemanship, although my earlier academic and professional work revolved around medical geography and American folklife, respectively. My practical experience in equitation, as I've hinted at in other comments, is largely grounded in the Baucherist French school, although I reach out to other schools frequently, partially as a collector of books on horses and horsemanship, and partially as an equestrian who has accidentally specialized in schooling difficult horses.

Here are some favorite comments of mine:

Harness racing used to be fairly popular in the US. Why did it become overshadowed by flat racing?

What made the chariots obsolete?

Italian Imports, Refugee Officers, and Civilian Amateurs: The Wellspring of Modern Riding in the United States

In Red Dead Redemption 2, early on we get to see a pair of gelding tongs being used in interrogation, these gelding tongs appear to be little more than red-hot pinking shears. Is this an accurate portrayal of gelding tongs used on the American Frontier c. 1899?

Ideally, I would like to have any flair read "Horsemanship & Equitation", and if you could throw me under the "Other" category, that would be doubly delightful.

Hey! I guess I should finally apply for flair. I'd like "Race & wealth in the antebellum South" or something to that effect, if I qualify.

Here are some sample answers:

Literature about property ownership among PoC in antebellum period: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/dqpa2r/can_anyone_discuss_the_history_of_african/f6l1mnl

Slavery in the United States vs Brazil: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/czpour/why_isnt_brazil_shamed_for_slavery_like_usa_is/ez1ds30

The burning of the University of Alabama, April 1865: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/cz4ej4/tuesday_trivia_in_medieval_italy_one_way_people/eyxt1bm

Relationships between free white women and enslaved men: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5yo7dk/why_was_it_acceptable_for_male_masters_to_have/dervz5g

Economic opportunities for free blacks in the antebellum South: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5mhz08/what_social_opportunities_would_be_available_to_a/dc6enzr

I've answered several other questions, including one about flagpole memorials on college campuses, and one about T.E. Lawrence and British nationalism, but I kept my cited examples to my area of expertise.

Hope this is enough, but let me know what I'm lacking if it's not!

Hi! I've been told I qualify for a flair (finally!!)

I have a BA in History & Economics from the University of Oxford, but I'm an investment banker now. I specialise in general economic history, but also in East Asian history with a focus on Japan, China, and Singapore. I was hoping my flair could say something like: "Economics & Finance  |  East Asia"

Comments I've done include:  

If I were a knowledgeable member of the financial world in, say, October of 1928, could I see the crash coming?

What were the Tiananmen Square protesters demanding, and has this been portrayed honestly by Western media accounts?

Before computers made it easy, how did Japanese typewriters account for Kanji? Did they even try? Or did they just write everything in Kana? What did Japanese typewriters even look like?  

What is the origin of “doing one thing extremely well” in Japanese culture?

Additionally I also contribute to r/AskEconomics, which hopefully gives me some economics creds, here's a recent post I made:

Why does the government target 2% inflation rate instead of 0% inflation?  

I have an MA in religious studies from the Div School at the University of Chicago, and I currently teach college level world history classes at a public high school (damn academia...) I guess that means if my application is accepted, I'd be flaired something like "History of Christianity | Protestant Reformation."

Here's a few recent answers on the history of religion:

As minorities without control of many traditional power structures, were the Calvanists/Protestants/Reformists essentially 'progressives' or so when they were starting out in Europe or was their religious movement divorced from modern politics?

How aware were both the general nobility and the common people of the theological differences between Catholicism and Protestantism?

Origin of Arab's Hatred Towards Jews? Already Mentions of it During the Jewish Revolt of 1st Century.

Why didn’t the Protestant Reformation happen before Martin Luther? Various people (such as Wycliffe and Hus) raised similar issues to Luther over a 100 years earlier, but they didn’t have anything like his impact.

And one way outside my official content area, but a topic of interest to me:

What was the limiting factor for naval vessel size historically?

I may be a mod now, but in the interests of procedural propriety it seems like I should probably still go through the normal channels for this:

I'd like to request a revision to Moderator | Taiping Heavenly Kingdom | Qing Dynasty. At this stage I think I've done enough high Qing and/or general Qing questions to warrant broadening to include the 1636-1800 period as well. For examples:

• The role of religion in the Manchu state and Qing imperial ideology
• The 'Manchuness' of the Qing state
• Overview of Qing frontier relations from 1757 to 1884
• Motives and rationale for the Qing conquest of Xinjiang
• Overview of the Eight Banners, with a particular focus on ethnic aspects

Thanks!

Hello! I would love to apply for a flair in this sub. I have been studying Early Modern English history at my University and I feel ready to apply for a flair in "Early Modern England".

Here are a few of my answers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/co6qfo/tudor_question_was_katherine_of_aragon_ever/f73fg62?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/c7ju8o/why_did_people_in_late_medieval_and_early_modern/f6s92ya?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ds9ovn/poverty_and_peasantry_in_early_modern_england/f6paw5r?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

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I really appreciate your time and consideration that you give to this sub. Thank you!

Good evening. I’ve noticed after lurking here a while and recently becoming more active, you don’t have anyone with a few specialties I have expertise in.

here are a few comments.

Text of flair:

Category: North America History of Federal Reconstruction and the Freedmen’s Bureau in the U.S. | Black History in the US, 1861-present | 20th Century Texas History | Black history in Texas | State and Local History Pedagogy

BS in History, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 1999. Member, Colorado County Historical Commission

I would like to transfer my flair to a new account, ChrisTheClassicist

If you have any questions about the flairing process or otherwise related to this topic, please restrict them as a response to this stickied comment only to prevent cluttering of the thread. Thank you!