A common criticism of George McGovern in the 1972 election seemed to be that McGovern wrote an article in 1971 about how if a country wants to be communist and does so in a democratic manner the US should be ok with that. Does anyone know where I could find McGovern's article?

In WWI, Germany was infamously said to be "chained to a corpse" as Imperial German troops and commanders had to take over more and more of Austria-Hungary's military efforts to keep it in the fight;

• How does this compare to German assistance to Fascist Italy and its other allies in WWII? Was Nazi Germany "chained to a corpse" as well?

• Was there any support in Germany or Austria-Hungary in 'breaking' the Union after Franz Josef's death and bringing in Austria and Bohemia as kingdoms of the German Empire, and Hungary becoming fully independent?

--- obviously not from the Habsburg perspective but if I was an Austrian commander/Noble, by 1916 I'd rather be a subject to the Hohenzollern Kaiser than another damn Habsburg.

How did sports broadcasting settle on the play-by-play plus color commentator team?

Is there any good, general overview book (I don't care how long) that just straight up lays out all the major events in world history?

As a follow up question, is there anything like the above for either the history of Chinese dynasties or Russia?

What I'm really asking is: what is the best way to get a solid foundational grounding in world history?

Is there a place where I can find a basic timeline of human history? Just need it for context when doing specific research for a writing project. Thanks!

Were women allowed to be police officers in Sarajevo before the war broke out? It seems like a simple question, but I've been unable to find evidence confirming or denying the existence of female police officers in transitional Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Can anyone recommend any historical movies (anything set before around 1900) that have exceptionally accurate portrayals of day to day life for people in that time and place, or of what things would really have looked like?

How many years of contemporaneous tax revenue were needed to fund the Manhattan Project?

Ethiopia has always been interesting to me as a country. I am studying history but would like to read some on the side. I am writing here to see if there are any good books to read to get an introduction on the nation that you would recommend?

Does anyone know (or where to find) what the date is of the first ostomy surgery performed in different parts of the world? I have a non-academic source that says Britain’s first recorded ostomy surgery was 1815, Germany was 1879, Netherlands as 1909, and Northern America as 1950. (source: https://www.stomaatje.com) But I need to validate these data with academic sources. I found an academic article in the NEJM.org for ostomy surgeries in France, but could not find others.

Who was the greek goddess of women's fertility? So, as far as I know Demeter was the greek goddess of fertility, but that seems almost exclusively associated with agriculture, whereas Aphrodite was the goddess of love but has little association with motherhood and Hera was the goddess of matrimony, and there was a minor goddess of childbirth. So, to whom would an ancient greek woman pray to ask for children?

I'm a history student, reading Caesar's account on the Gallic Wars. Why did so many gallic/germanic/britannic people and places have latin-sounding names? Did the Romans "latinify" preexisting names, or use new ones? Why?

They surely couldnt have given every little river, island etc. they came across a name and Caesar speaks very matter-of-factly about the geography, no mention of "Caesar named this river 'Tamesis'" or something like that.

And they had a lot of hostages who they probably renamed, but Diviciacus for example seemingly was a respected, independent "politician"/diplomat, not a captive. The same goes for some enemies who were never taken prisoner or seen as allies, like Indutiomarus.

Were there any large empires in West Africa during Greek and Roman Antiquity?

Rome had a war with the Nubian Empire of Kush over Roman Egypt and even made expeditions into the continent after battles with the Garimantes. Greece makes mention of Aethiopia, even in Homer's Illiad it's mentioned how the Gods love the Ethiopians. Hanno from Phoenicia sailed along the West African continent but doesn't make mention if there were any civilizations. Though this primarily involves East Africa. Were there any Empires in West Africa at the time of Greek/Roman Antiquity?

When did the public find out that the United States removed missiles from Turkey during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Like JFK wanted it secret but when did we find out about it?

Has anyone ever assembled a comprehensive list of all of Henry Kissinger's war crimes and the number of deaths in each? I'm asking because I once heard someone compare his body count to Hitler and while I get that stuff like Vietnam/Cambodia/Indonesia gets him to a few million easily I doubt I can place him in Hitler territory until I've accounted for at minimum ten million deaths attributed to his actions.

Would the average European 1000 years ago have known it was the year 1020, or was that usually something only educated people would know? Was there a difference between rural areas vs cities in whether people knew the year?

In the translation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms that I'm currently reading (Brewitt-Taylor, I think), they mention "wine", but would that have been what we call wine in English, or something more akin to rice wine?

Covering oneself in metal seems like a no brainer when making armor, yet full plate armor wasn’t a thing until around the 14th century.

What was the missing step that allowed metalworkers to make bigger pieces of metal?

When and why did Canada carve Nunavut out of its Northwestern Territories?

I'm having an extremely difficult time finding good books on the history of the Cheyenne. What books would be good to get a broad overview of their culture and history?

Why was Winston Churchill voted out of the Prime Minister's office near the end of the European theatre of WWII?

How was which nation landed on which beach on D-Day decided upon?

I've been looking for the work "Dalmatia in the Age of the War of Crete/Candia" and I cannot find the complete text, only other works that reference it. Does anyone know where I can read or download "Dalmacija u doba kandijskog rata" written in 1958 by Gligor Stanojević? The work doesn't need to be in English, the original Croatian is fine with me. I'm also fine with paying a fee for access to it, I really just don't know where to find the work to begin with.

Were there any major pushes/movements for African American civil rights prior to the mid 1950's? (and after the end of Reconstruction ca. 1880)

What is the name historian use for the empire created by Muhammad’s conquests? I know that after his death it was the Rashidun Caliphate, but what about when Muhammad was still alive?

Can the layman practice oral history as an occupation?

Why did the Nazis name a division of the SS after Florian Geyer?

In 1346 BCE, Akhenaten introduced his new god, Aten, into the Ancient Egyptian pantheon and outlawed all the others. How did the pharaoh make sure the worship was consistent and people didn't secretly worship their old gods? I heard something about workers in Dier el-Madina continuing to worship in secret, yet I can't find anything about it.

I am currently reading Georges Lefebvre's French Revolution. In a lot of early chapters, names and concepts are introduced with little to no context or explanation. When the books were written, was it just expected that everyone reading them would have a complete enough knowledge of 18th century history to know who everyone he talks about was?

Would Hitler have kept conquering if France and Britain didn't declare war when he and Soviet invaded Poland?

I’m looking for a specific event where a small group held off invaders in a mountain pass.

From what I remember of this event, a group of around 30 men stayed at this base in between mountains to fight against invaders that were trying to come through. One man was sent for reinforcements, and when he returned all of the men were dead, but so were most/all of the invaders. I think the men were part of a group colonized by another (probably the British) and the invaders were people who wanted to regain control against the colonizers. If this sounds familiar please lmk, thank you!

Hello, which youtube channels talk about nazism? NO, not pro nazism or other bad and political things like that, just strictly interesting and historical videos about Nazism / Hitler / Holocaust. Thanks.

Commodus' full name was Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus Augustus Herculeus Romanus Exsuperatorius Amazonius Invictus Felix Pius

Are there any other Roman emperors, consuls, etc. with names as long as that?

Most of the time I see a post from this sub on my home page that has thousands of upvotes, I enter it just to see all comments deleted. Is this normal?

How did police (or National Guard or hired goons etc) break strikes in the days of pitched battles with strikers? I'm a little unclear how beating the shit out of a guy with a nightstick can make him go back to work. Or was it to get them out of the way so scabs could work, or what?

edit: I am always fascinated when people downvote a question.

What era would William IV be classed under? George’s I-IV would be Georgian, Victoria was Victorian, Edward VII was Edwardian, what would William IV be?

I have an uncomfortable question, 'cuz it might be interpreted as denialism or apologetics when I'm really just curious... ok?

Ok... I wanted to know if during the peak of American slavery what the relative quality of life was for slaves in other countries at the same time.

What resources should every historian be using, irrespective of their fields and focuses of study?

ReWatching The Great War series while reading a couple books on WWI has left me a question not yet answered...

What happened to all the prisoners taken? Left in camp? Forced to work farms/factories? Exchanged?

Was there "The Kaiser's Russians"-" The Tzar's Germans" with prisoners recruited to fight?

What about Baltic Germans taken prisoner?

How many money-changers would have fit in the plaza at the Jerusalem Temple, or how many people did Jesus probably drive out of the temple?

How was alexander the great able to hold his empire while reaching india? After every conquest he must have left a few thousand men behind to garisson the cities. Considering the vast amount of cities spread across Mesopotamia, with populations over the hundreds of thousands, egypt, the levant and anatolia, I feel like it would have been east to rebel against alexanders rule while he was off warring on the edges of the empire.

Who are the foremost experts (or books) on Hellenistic era warfare? I'm asking for the developers of a mod for the Paradox game Imperator: Rome. Which currently has really bad combat in my opinion.

Hi guys, How can I develop a question similar to Cromwell Hero or Villain further? I think that question is done to death but like the topic. I considered developing it to a likening of him and Hitler as he’s arguably a facist, but I don’t know if that’s got 2500 words in it. Thanks!

Are the New Oxford World History series and Peter N. Stearns' Themes in World History series considered solid sources? I will eventually get through all the reccomended reading on this reddit but these two series cover a lot of themes i'm most interested in and every book is about 100 pages long so I'm thinking they might be a good starting point.

How can I read about the similarities between distant civilizations that have no interaction at all? The topics I want to learn the most about are:

Religious, architectural, socioeconomical (distribution of resources mostly) similarities. I actually want to look at the topic in a biologic way but I first want to learn about the sociologic structures before I move onto their potential biological causes. I figured historians would be one of the best informed academics to ask for books, articles etc. about this. Thank you in advance.

I'm reading the new Erik Larson book, just as fun as his other books, and he mentions that Churchill sent Stalin a telegram that tried to warn him about Barbarossa. Churchill asked the ambassador, Cripps, to hand deliver it b/c it was urgent. For some reason he didn't do it right away. Do we know why? Could he not get in to see Stalin? Did the wording of the telegram make it seem like it wasn't urgent (The book says the telegram was somewhat vague to protect the secret of Bletchley Park)? Did Cripps have a problem with Churchill (Maybe sending Halifax to DC wasn't popular in the foreign servcie?)

What sort of poison would be obtainable in 1960s China? I'm starting a novella that's partially set in this time period, and I'm planning on having one character poison himself. His father is in the Revolutionary Army, so his family is relatively well-off for the time. I was wondering what kind of poison he'd have access to, if any.

Origins of Truman quote (WW2/ atomic bombs)

I have to reference Truman’s quote in a paper i’m doing for school. was wondering if anyone knew when exactly Truman said this and possibly where/in what format e.g. speech, radio transcript etc. thanks :)

“The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.”