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Are there any new documents scheduled for declassification that you’re particularly excited about? US, UK or otherwise...
What is the last major city to be "sacked"?
Plenty of cities in antiquity are described as being sacked. But the modern conception of warfare does not seem to allow for this for the most part. What would be the most recent siege/capture of a city that could be described as a "sacking" in broadly similar terms to olden times?
I was told to post this question here instead of on its own thread:
CLR James claims in Beyond a Boundary that "The first recorded date in European history is 775 BC, the year of the first Olympic Games." How true is that?
Doing some research and I'm not sure how to phrase this question into Google.
Are there any studies on the benefits of colonialism/imperialism for colonizers, vs. the countries who, for whatever reason, did not colonize at the time? (i.e. did the extra income, resources from the colonies made them vastly more successful than their non-colonizing neighbors over time?)
I am mostly looking at European colonialism in the 16/17th centuries, but any study that relates to imperialism whenever would be great.
Many thanks.
What do you call a person who makes crossbows?
I'm having trouble finding any information regarding whether a bowyer, blacksmith, etc, made crossbows, or if it was its own profession. I found the word "artillator" being described as a crossbow maker, but only in an obscure medieval dictionary and with the term described as a maker of artillery in others.
So was there ever a specific term used for crossbow makers, or is it suffice to call them "bowyer"?
The spoiler part is probably NSFW. Did Ottomans at some point >! attatch human (possibly child) skin!< to a siege tower to demoralise defenders of a city in Hungary? I vaguely remember reading somewhere about that.
Are there any vernacular narratives, journals, travel guides, etc. from Europeans in the middle ages or sixteenth century that refer to China as "China," rather than "Sina" or "Cathay?"
Slightly embarassing question as it's in my own area, but it's more for people who know things about 19th century military records – does anyone know, or know a resource where I could easily find out, which specific British, French, Indian (and North African?) regiments and ships fought in the Opium Wars, the anti-Taiping intervention and the Sino-French War?
Was the French and Norwegian royal families ever intertwined through marriage?
I’m looking to get introduced to WWII history - I have very, very minimal knowledge of the events, hitlers rise, the timeline, etc. Does anyone have a book(s) recommendation?
I realize that WWII was complex and I will not get a holistic, thorough view from one book. However, I’m hoping I can get a recommendation here as a place to start, covering the need-to-knows and then I can expand from there. Thanks!
Is there any indication that they finished the play the night President Lincoln was assassinated, or did they give the audience tickets to a different show? I know it is kind of morbid and possibly stupid question to ask if they continued a play after such an event, but curiosity got the best of me.
Very trivial question that I'm not sure where else to ask: Where was the German embassy in Budapest prior to 1945? I know the current one is on Úri utca in Budapest I, and that site was given to Germany in exchange for the original Hungarian embassy location in Berlin; I have previously found locations of the East and West German embassies from after the end of WWII, but I've not been able to find any documentation indicating where the embassy was before the war.
In the movie Carol (2015), which takes place around 1952, one character gifts another a Canon camera. Did Canon already exported cameras into USA just 7 years after WW2, and if yes, was it also considered high-end?
I'm looking for good books regarding Mexican history:
1.) A general overview from pre-Columbian to the present 2.) A more focused book on "pre-contact" Mexico 3.) Maya history
What is the truth of light skinned slaves in North America being house slaves, while dark skinned slaves worked in fields?
How did strangers in Victorian England talk to each other? Specifically, if a man was to run into a woman in the street and talk to her for any reason, how would he address her?
Were there any medieval soldiers that carried a bow and spear? My impression is that bowmen carried a sword as a sidearm in case of melee combat was needed, and spearmen carried thrown weapons or no ranged weapons at all.
I have a simple and dumb question! Did anyone think it was odd or amusing that the USA chose the same red, white, and blue color scheme that the country they seceded from had??
In historical movies and stuff set from 1800s to 1900s, women, when greeting people or being introduced, often bend their legs a little bit and then stand up straight, almost like a little bounce. Sometimes women do this today even, when they are introduced to new people. What is the origin and meaning of this type of greeting gesture?
In heraldry, why does the motto usually start with "or,"?
Example: King Arthur's in The Once and Future King is "or, a dragon rampart gules" and Sir Gawaine's is "or, a chevron gules, between three thistles vert."
I apologise if any terminology is incorrect. Thank you in advance!
How much would Cuban cigars cost during the Cold War before the Cuban embargo? How much did it cost then vs now adjusted for inflation?
What's the history of the transmission of crossbows? They seem to have been used in both ancient China and medieval Europe, but not in between.
Where can i find Dr Abd al-latif's work depicting the 1201 famine in egypt?
Most-read presidential biography?
I was on the blog bestpresidentialbios.com and in the page for Lincoln it is casually stated that Team of Rivals is the "second best-read presidential biography of all time." What is the best-read biography?
A small and possibly weird question. Does history of times before the formation of Humans, also fits inside the discipline of History? Or is history a discipline primary and only focused on history of humanity? If that is the case, history of, for example, dinosaurs is not part of the discipline of history but part of some other branch of science?
Why was it important for the last Romanov Tsar Nicholas II to have a male heir if Russia had been previously ruled by women (such as Empress Elizabeth and Catherine The Great)?
When was the first “movie” ever made? I remember watching a movie where they used candles and cloths for making movies with shadows. Is there maybe some ancient Egyptian movie think that they made for Pharos? I’m just super curious because I am a movie fanatic.
Did European kindoms learn how to use hand granades from the bizantin empire?
In the property requirements to vote under the 1780 MA Constitution, it says that "every male inhabitant of twenty-one years of age and upwards, having a freehold estate within the commonwealth, of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to give in his vote".
Just wanna clarify, by "any estate of 60 pounds", that means "any property" of 60 pounds right? Whether real, personal, or mixed?
Who was the official last living citizen of the Confederate States of America?