Do you ever get curious about why someone is asking a question? What their motivations are?

Sometimes it seems like a shower thought that the OP didn’t think through or research on their own.

Or someone is in the middle of an argument either on Reddit or IRL and needs that sweet, sweet historical example/justification.

Or the OP has an ongoing interest in a subject and is asking very specific, hard to answer questions about related subjects.

For myself, it’s all three. I asked a question about Christmas trains because I was at Walmart looking at trying not to buy a bunch of Christmas junk that had trains on them.

And I’m really interested in German history, the Teutonic Order, the Crusades and medieval Europe in general so I ask a lot of questions related to those subjects.

I don’t really ask questions in the heat of an argument. it’s not likely to get answered in time or at all, but I do use (or try to use, Reddit search sucks) past threads to slam some historical examples upon mine enemies.

Hello all-

I'm still plugging gamely away on my project "Questions about Ancient Greece and Rome (you were afraid to ask in school)." No new video this week - I've had too much else on my plate - but those who missed my posting here two weeks ago might enjoy my latest offering, which explains why ancient war elephants were surprisingly ineffective on the battlefield.

If you do find the time to watch the video, feel free to let me know what you think. I'm always trying to improve my presentation, and any (well, almost any) comments or suggestions will be deeply appreciated.

I was on a panel about H. P. Lovecraft's wife Sonia H. Greene this August as part of NecronomiCon 2019. Sonia was a Jewish immigrant from Imperial Russia (present day Ukraine). Her father abandoned the family or died after the Russo-Turkish War (1878), and her mother brought her first to the UK and then to the US, emigrating to New York at the age of 7. She went to school and became apprenticed as a clothesmaker, eventually rising to a very well-to-do position in the New York fashion industry. Either widowed or divorced from her first husband, she went to night school to improve her English, and fell into amateur journalism...where she met H. P. Lovecraft. They were married a few years later.

If you want to hear more, it turns out someone recorded the panel (which is in English) and posted it to this podcast (which, being Swedish, has a Swedish introduction):

https://podcasts.nu/avsnitt/udda-ting/93-sonia-greene-lovecrafts-fru

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New Indiana Jones Film

Who do you guys think, Indy will be up against in the 2021 upcoming new film? I don’t personally know but it would be stupid to put him against the Nazis again since in the Crystal Skull he fought the Soviets and the movie took place in 1957. I wanna hear ur thoughts.

What kind of resources should I be looking at, to find out about incredibly local history? I found what appears to be the remains of an old railway bridge, in the bush in the middle of nowhere, on Vancouver Island, and I'd like to know more about it but I don't know where to look. I think it might be from an old coal mining railroad from the late 1800's but I can't be sure without more info.

I could use some academic and career advice!

I am currently a junior doing undergrad work for a degree in history, however, I am a transfer student and have completed all my requisite courses already and only have 2 more required history section classes to take to fulfill my degree requirements. I spent a long time in and out of community college so I have the pre-reqs fulfilled for Humanities, English Lit, and Poli Sci. History is my passion and no matter the field I end up in, I absolutely want that to be my focus.

But I still need to fill 3 semesters worth of classes to meet the unit requirement for graduation. This semester ended up being 5 upper division History courses and frankly it was a nightmare. I want to explore some minor options but my department counselor is literally useless and I can't get reassigned another so I am lacking perspective and sound advice from people who are in the field. So I'd love some advice or even just to hear what sort of path you took!

So far the path I'd like to take is:

• BA in History
• MA in Public History

I have not ruled out the possibility of going for a doctorate, I'd love to, but I don't want to get wrapped up in worrying about it yet. Pie in the sky dream goals would be either opening my own museum or going on to a doctorate in archaeology or I also love the idea of public service and public policy making and have considered that a law degree might be something I'll eventually pursue if I head that direction. (The latter is honestly probably the most pragmatic from my current point of view - I live in a capital city and thus have a lot of opportunity for involvement and internships).

I have kind of narrowed it down to my minor being Political Science or Anthropology but then again, there's so much out there I'm probably not considering so I'd love to hear about the paths and experiences of others! Thank you!

My grandparents are still alive and were old enough to remember World War II and the German invasion into Poland. My brother and I have been recording their stories and recollections but we don't know what to do with them. One of my grandmothers in particular has an incredible memory, especially for years and people's names. What can we do with these recordings? What should we do? There's so much information there and we'd like to try to do it justice. The recordings are in Polish but my generation is American.

We know that fascists like too mythologize the past, And origins of different ethnicities, so when I started hearing about French fascism in the 20's-40's I wondered, what part of French history would they mythologize?, And what would they consider be the National origin of France? Any particular disagreements between French fascist/Far-right politicans, on the Origin of France and it's people?

What thinkers and/or texts provided the theory for the NSDAP? My understanding is that Hitler was not much of a theorist, and that the original groundwork, at least, for the party’s platform was laid by others.

the etymology behind the phrase "konked out" comes from Hawaii where the tradition is to blow a trumpet made from a konch shell at sunset every night and then go to party/bed. Thus the past tense is to have already blown the trumpet and gone to bed.