How did the Great Slave Lake in Canada get it's name?

I'm scratching the 20 year rule here, but could anyone tell me whether the practise to give overly positive names to proposed US-laws(No child left behind, Patriot Act) is something that existed before 2000, or whether it is a feature that was introduced during the presidency of Bush Jr?

Are there sober historical books on Freemasonry and its history?

The comic is "Strongman #1" from 1955, published by Magazine enterprises

The Gothic strongman is shown in this page recording the history of Strongmen, middle left

The other figures on the page are all easily identifiable as being from myth or recent history, but Mareg hasn't shown up on any searches.

Any idea if this could be based on something real, or was it the author's invention?

META: Anyone else get this odd thing with posts that end up on your home/ only have the automod comment visible? like this one? https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/if9dvq/im_a_medieval_toddler_having_dinner_with_my/

I've only ever noticed this behaviour with this sub and every other post in this sub is fine?

how did the vikings treat women?

I’m curious about the 50s in the USA. Any papers or books you could recommend? I want to better understand how the life was during that time

1. Who were the three women proposed to be Hirohito's wife?
2. What was the population of German Samoa, German Neuguinea and German Pacific Territories in 1914?

Where can I find footage (preferably coloured, but doesn't matter) of popular music (RnR and blues) from the mid '50s to mid '70s? I keep digging in the most obscure places on the internet, but would love if there are any places I can look through.

I’ve been Googling around for a biography of Eugène de Beauharnais and I can’t seem to find anything written in English in the last 50 years. Is there a go-to biography of Eugène written or translated in English?

When Chief Joseph the Younger surrendered at the Battle of Bear Paw, he is said to have given a short speech ending in the famous quote "from where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever". Is this historically accurate or is it yet another fabrication of a native leader's words?

In 1844, one of the cannons on the naval ship USS Princeton exploded during a gala on its maiden voyage, killing multiple government officials and other upper-class attendees. Meanwhile, below deck, a crowd including then-President John Tyler's son-in-law was singing a famous Revolutionary War song, and Tyler decided to stay below deck as it was his favourite song when he was younger. The song got to the critical line "eight hundred men lay slain" and, in perfect sync, there was a loud bang. The crowd cheered loudly before someone above deck shouted that the Secretary of State had died. Had John Tyler witnessed the explosion instead of staying below deck to hear his old favourite song, he may very well have died.

I find articles about this story everywhere, and some even mention the song, but I have not been able to find the name of the song. Can someone please identify this song that quite possibly changed the course of history?

What country was Cerro al Volturno, Italy, a part of in 1895?

Any good podcasts telling neat history stories, like Giles Milton‘s podcast but longer?

I noticed that Ian W. Toll's two books on the Pacific Theater were removed from the reading list where, IIRC, they had once been. Is anyone aware of why? Do they no longer meet the academic criteria, and are they replaced with any books in particular that should be read in their place?

There's a quote I once heard and vaguely remember about the English Civil War. Can anyone fill it in and tell me who said it? I've tried and failed to find it online.

It mentioned all the other nations of the British Isles, and it was something like this:

It was a war that the Scottish failed to prevent, the Irish failed to prepare for, and the Welsh failed to predict.

I've made up the things the nations failed to do, but they were along those lines.

I heard the quote on a quiz show, and the contestants were given the quote and asked what it was referring to.

That's all I can remember. I definitely didn't make the quote up, but Google is clueless despite me being sure I've remembered the gist of it!

What, if any, 18th century army, armies, navy, or navies donned mustard yellow uniforms?

I'm asking because I've noticed that the Spanish (navy, I think) are depicted in such uniforms in this video, as well as the video game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. I know that AC is far from perfect in terms of historical accuracy, and I actually looked into it myself and learned that the Spanish and French armies wore more or less the same white-and-blue uniforms at around that time due to the Bourbon dynasty or something like that (feel free to correct me; I read that years ago), but I was surprised after seeing that same uniform in the linked video because I usually hold Simple History videos to a higher standard of credibility than I do works of fiction.

I'd greatly appreciate your help with this, and would like you to provide me with links to (or at least names of) your source(s).

I recently read The Blitzkrieg Legend by Karl-Heinz Frieser as it was recommended and whilst it was a good read and mostly excellent I just couldn't get over the fact that Frieser repeated the old Polish Cavalry canard and sourcing the claim from Guderian no less.

Does anyone off hand know if this was still 'accepted' in 1995 when the book originally published? Seems like a very simple oversight to make if not, from such a good writer.

Slings or bows: which are actually easier to become proficient with/master (on average)? I've heard the same claim made about both that they owed a lot of their popularity to being easier to use than the other.

I have a copy of Ian Kershaw's The Nazi Dictatorship- Problems and Perspetives of Interpretation (2nd edition) that I picked up a while ago from a second hand bookshop. It was published in 1990. How much has scholarship changed since then, and is it worth my time reading or should I buy a more recent work?

(Recommendations for a more recent work are doubly welcome! The bits I've read are really interesting, but it's several books down a long reading list...)

Thanks.

How much of a benefit did castles and walls really have defensively? I was reading a manufacturing book making a metaphor about walled cities and castles vs inventory walls.

It said they gave a false sense of security and didn’t mean that much because they often just got sieged out and often led to more poorly trained troops/less troops because of that false sense of security. It also mentioned Greece, Sparta or something like that they said their Spartans/troops were their walls and it was more affective or something along those lines.

How true is this statement? Constantinople seemed to greatly benefit from its walls.

Does anyone have recommendations for books on the post-WWII phase of the Chinese Civil War? "Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950" sounds almost exactly what I'm looking for, but the AskHistorians review on it on the book list isn't the best ("many of his conclusions either speculative or are not backed up by sufficient historical evidence").

Does anyone have other recommendations on that topic?

Does Cupid's arrow have a name? Is this a question for a different subreddit?

American civil war question. Assuming moral grounds werent the main reason for advocating for the abolition of slavery, what other pressures contributed to the movement?

I understand why people in power want to keep their power in the confederate states, but why would the north agitate them?

How advanced was medical knowledge in pre-columbian central America? I'm most interested about Aztec empire.

How similar are the Ottoman Genocides to the Holocaust? Sure it wasn't 11 million but that was later after assembly method had revolutionized industrialization and in much more populated Europe. Were the 3 million deaths a proto-Holocaust? Was Hitler inspired at all by the success of the eradication of Assyrians?

What colony were the first New World slaves sent to, and which crop did they grow?

Do archeologists really over classify items as religious or ceremonial? I saw some rants on some videos and subreddits but have no idea if it's actually over done or it's the perception from non historians/archaeologists

I was reading an old answer which included some quotes from the Magna Carta. There was this clause:

Clause 28. No constable or any other of our bailiffs will take any man’s corn or other chattels unless he pays cash for them…

Corn. It mentions corn, but the corn I know comes from the American continent. What were they talking about here? Did some other food use to be called corn?

What actually happened at the battle of Shipka? It's not really studied in school and my only source of information is from literature that isn't meant to be informative.

What was the first ethnographical or linguistic map that became vogue in Europe 1850s-1920s?

Are there are any historical maps from even earlier like say the 1700s? I'm particularly interested in how people changed their definition like the exclusion of the Netherlands from the German ethnicity or the combining of all of the Italian peninsula into one ethnicity.

https://www.jstor.org/journal/jethnsocilond184

Surely these guys made maps

Was the depopulation of Ancient Greece a result of the barbarian invasions in the late Roman Empire, was it a gradual decline due to the degradation of the environment, or was it sudden enough to indicate an epidemic -- perhaps the plague in Justinian's reign?

So people talk about the Middle Ages and the medieval time period and (in the US) they are typically talking about the European Middle Ages (c.500-1500). There is a general movement in academia to think about the 'global Middle Ages', which is a movement against strict regional boundaries and periodization, but it seems anachronistic to call, say, 8th century China and 14th century Zimbabwe both as part of the 'Middle Ages'. Does anyone have problems working with this kind of cross-periodization? Or, has anyone mapped out the periodization of various regions of world history and how they compare to each other?

I forgot who it was that sent an army of children to fight and get slaughtered because he thought kids were immortal

Did Spain ever have a presence in India or Southeast Asia other than the philippines?

Where was Herta Oberheuser imprisoned? As far as I can tell, everyone sentenced by the NMT's was sent to Landsberg, which is a mens' prison.

Did Irish Americans own African slaves?

What was the most used/produced planes of WW2 1) by the Allies 2) By the Axis ?

I was looking around to see if there were any clear and reliable estimates on total deaths caused both Japan and Germany during WW2 and I was having some trouble. mainly because many numbers are split into confusing categories and it is hard to compare numbers between two sources when I dont know how they categorized the deaths. and other factors like if they are considering deaths starting from 1937 when the second sino japanese war started or 1939. I also see many people citing RJ Rummel but it seems like there's only criticisms of this guy's estimates on reddit. [1] [2] and it seems like his numbers are very low considering the fact that china had about 500 million people at the time and with japan attacking the most populated regions of china a combined 6 million [3] total civilian death estimate from all nations seems incorrect (only 1.2% of population of just china).

my general guess is that japan either caused an equal amount or more civilian deaths than nazi germany, and maybe military deaths as well. Because the japanese were fighting for 2 years longer than the nazis, were fighting and occupying nations that had larger populations than nations in europe, and had an equal or more brutal policy of killing of civilians (or lack of any policy) but I would like to see if my guess is correct or not, or if others have similar assumptions.

I would like to know both in terms of total civilian deaths caused by japan and military deaths caused by japan compared to germany, but if there is a total count estimate for each I would appreciate that as well.

Did pirates really wear eye patches to keep one eye accustomed to dark lighting below decks?

Hadrian's wall seems of little defensive value. Was it something of a public works program meant to economically stimulate?

Who was the last Pope to have a living parent?

Pardon the late response! I know nothing of this and the topic is not covered by Jordanes. However, with all things pertaining to the Goths of late antiquity, especially with reference to hearsay, I would be skeptical.