Did Bob Marley ever say or allude to music and love could cure racism?

Quote from I Am Legend:

He had this idea. It was kind of a virologist idea. He believed that you could cure racism and hate... literally cure it, by injecting music and love into people's lives. When he was scheduled to perform at a peace rally, a gunman came to his house and shot him down. Two days later he walked out on that stage and sang. When they asked him why - He said, "The people, who were trying to make this world worse... are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness."

I've found evidence/proof of the quote at the end of the quote, but I've never been able to find proof of the belief.

In 1842 there was a small gold rush in the San Gabriel Mountains of southern California. During the mid 1840s, before Marshall found gold in 1848, thousands of Anglo-Americans settled in California, and the US government spent a lot of effort trying to wrangle California into its control during that decade. Did the government/the settlers know about the 1842 gold strike, and if so how much was it part of their motivation to annex/settle in California?

Also interested in recommendations for books on pre-1848 California history. Especially interested in the 1836 revolt, which is really hard to find good, well contextualized, information about online.

How accepted is the idea that Sumerians were related to modern south Indians?

Any suggestions for books on the history of greeting rituals?

With social distancing and contact being avoided these days, I was wondering about the history of handshakes, bows, curtsies, tipping the hat, salutes, kiss on the cheeks, and so on.

Why did Alexander the Great start conquering land?

I have to write a 5-page paper for a summer history course. The topic or person must be a person or movement in Early U.S. History sometime before 1880 and must be something outside of the dominant historical narrative so someone or something less know or taught about. I was curious if anyone had any suggestions on a cool or interesting topic I should learn about. I have looked around online and have some ideas but I figured the good people or r/AskHistorians might have some good out of the box ideas. If this is not the right subreddit for this type of question I am sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks

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Edit: For reference, I was thinking about writing about Robert Small an African American born slave who escaped to freedom and later became a member of the house of representatives.

Good afternoon. I'd like to know what life was like in the medieval era in icy regions of the planet. For example, what was the way that peasants made a living and what was the difficulty that both they and the nobility faced in that time.

Have there been any new discoveries lately which change the way we understand a particular history?

Why are there always multiple posts in threads but can I only see one automated post?

When I learn about a historical event, I often want to read up on the public debate surrounding it.

How would one do this? Let's scope it to US and British history from 1800 onward.

I am aware of the New York Times archive, but finding relevant articles and op-eds in a search can be hard.

What is your advice?

Were there consistent(ish) rules/best practices for abbreviating Latin words in classical Rome, and if so what were the guidelines for creating an abbreviation (even if just informal)? Which words/names would be abbreviated and which would not be abbreviated (i.e. why does 'Marcus' get the honour of the 'M.' abbreviation?)

Wikipedia (here, and here) informs me that words may have a couple of different ways to be abbreviated. Was the choice of which abbreviation to use for a given word arbitrary or was the choice of abbreviation use to convey some additional information?

Hello all! I'm struggling to find any substantial data on 19th century agriculture. In particular, the late 19th century, say no earlier than 1860 to as late as 1899? I'm looking for information on the average size of farms both in terms of land area and how many farmhands were employed there, average crop yields, etc. I'm either not doing a good enough job phrasing my queries for Google, or the information is deceptively harder to find than I anticipated. I've found some basic, surface-level data in some places like Wikipedia, and tried following those sources to something more fruitful, but alas, here I am. Any helpful resources on 19th century farming would be much appreciated!

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Edit: it needn't be specific to a certain country. The United States or the United Kingdom I'm sure had fairly respectable crop yields, but data from any industrialized nation of the time will suffice.

Did the Roman empire have anything similar to the harems of the Near and Far East, rather than ad-hoc groups of mistresses?

I need more info on this Is strasserism left or right And is strasserism anti Semitic? Thank you

Was there any notable violence during the 1963 march on Washington?

Did the Confederate States Government push the recognition of Missouri and Kentucky as CS members in order to get 13 stars in its union to reflect the original Revolution?

Beside claiming more resources and territory, it seems like a more propaganda move getting those states.

What happened to the Nazi artifacts that were made from human remains? I know there’s debate as to whether or not human skin was used as leather so that’s not what I’m asking. I mean the artifacts that we know existed such as the preserved organs and shrunken heads.

Were they buried/destroyed or are they in a museum somewhere?

This is my first question on this sub,so please excuse me if I make any mistakes.

What so we know about hypsistarians? specifically about their beliefs.

Was the name "Medinitae" ever used by Roman to refer to the west of the Arabian Peninsula

So, I've been building an alternate history story, and I was looking for diferente names I could use for Arabia, and I found this: https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/Alternative_History:Alternate_Names/Asia#Saudi_Arabia

Here, it says "Medinitae" was used by Romans to refer to the west of the Arabian Peninsula. I didn't take this at face value, so I went searching around to see if there was any evidence of the name being used. I couldn't, but that doesn't necessarily mean the name was made up either. So, can any historian confirm or deny the authenticity of this claim?

I apologize if the depth and scope of this question is too much for this thread. Please let me know if this needs a full thread and I will compose one. However, the people of the present day need to know the answer to this question:

Did people actually think that Andre would beat Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania 3?

Looking back, it doesn't look like anyone could think so, but this was before Vince McMahon's 1988 testimony to the New Jersey athletic convention and before the curtain call and worked shoot angles of the 90s. I know the business had been publicly exposed in The Fall Guys in the 1930s, but this does not appear to be in public consciousness then or now. On top of that, Andre had been undefeated in America for 14 years. What would a typical fan have thought in early 1987?

Has a European monarch ever fully inherited another monarchy?

The various monarchs of Europe are famously nearly all related to each other by some degree (distant cousins variously removed etc by now). However around the Middle Ages, when this really took off, did that cause any instance where a King inherited another Kingdom (or Duke/Duchy etc) because they were, for example, the cousin/brother/sister of another monarch that died without children?

A related example would be the Union of the Crowns - King of Scotland inherited the Kingdom of England/Ireland from his cousin Elizabeth I. However, that union was never really realised - England and Scotland continued as autonomous states that shared a monarch until the Acts of Union 100 years later where both monarchies were "United into One Kingdom". I'm wondering if there was any instance where that happened during the monarchs lifetime?

Why was Guy Fawkes popularly remembered for the gunpowder plot over Robert Catesby?

Since it's the anniversary of Lindisfarne, during the beginning of the Viking age what was the distinction between a Dane and Norweigian? I mean as in how they saw each other, as well as how outsiders saw them or if for them it was just "northmen" or whatever the proper term is.

Is there a good reference that lists the small arms that were used by militaries around World War 2? I'm especially interested in smaller countries and countries that stayed neutral (Ireland, Portugal, Baltic states, etc).

why are there almost no comments on any post even though it says there are?

Did Queen Victoria have slaves? Would she have benefited from slavery? (Despite its abolition before her coronation)

Any recommendations for a book that provides an overview of the British conquest / rule in india?

Adler v. Board of Education, the teachers that refused to answer the loyalty oath question sued and lost in the Supreme Court. Then in Keyishian v. Board of Regents the Court reversed itself. The teachers who had been fired in the 1950s then sued for reinstatement. Adler was reinstated and retired from the city schools in 1977, with his pension rights restored.

Did his pension rights include the period from 1954 to whenever he was reinstated? Did any of them get anything monetarily for that time period?

Was "When Jonny comes marching home" a popular song during WW2, especially among the US soldiers themselves?

What did the colonists in the American revolution work with during the revolution time?

What ancient sources are there pertaining to Roxana, wife of Alexander the Great, having a child that died around the time of the Indian campaign, years prior to Alexander's death and the birth of Alexander IV? I've seen some modern sources state this, but I can not for the life of me find where this information is coming from.

What was the name of the famous Japanese leader who was betrayed after his death in his succession

I'm not entirely sure but I think he was involved in the founding of Tokyo, although when looking for that I cant find it

basically a Japanese leader unified some groups, and had a loyal second in command. He died early or unexpectedly and wanted his second in command to rule according to his will, till his son was ready to takeover.

But the second in command instead killed the son of his former master, to secure rule for himself.

I have a question about WWII. Generally I see the sides referred to as the allies and the axis powers, but to me this seems like the terms used by the allies.

How did the axis countries refer to themselves and their enemies? It seems to me allies sounds more positive and axis negative but that may be just because the allies are the good guys and the connotation I draw comes from that?

The terms entente and central powers from WWI seem more neutral

Why was Queen Victoria referred to as the Empress of India but the Queen of England? Was she ever officially referred to as the Empress of the British Empire?

The US tried something called the Great Plains Shelterbelt during the Great Depression. Were there other ecological mega projects during the Depression? Has anything like this been tried since?