Meta question: how often is the AskHistorians book list updated? Have any books been removed since it's inception?

When did Prussian Blue start to be used in Japanese woodblock prints? Hokusai's The Great Wave of Kanagawa is of course notable for its being designed around use of the pigment, but that's from the 1830s, and Prussian Blue had been around since 1706. Are there earlier cases of its use?

what did canadian farm children in the late 1800s call their parents?

i'm assuming it's "ma" and "pa" or "mama" and "papa" but i'm not completely sure. i know "mom" and "dad" or "daddy" and "mommy" weren't very common back then, and "mother" and "father" were (i believe) something more upper class families would say.

i know this is oddly specific (sorry ;v;), i'm writing a story and i figured this would be the best place to ask.(

third time i've asked; last time asked was about 2-3 weeks ago)

When Europeans established themselves in Asia, they were looking for things like spices in Indonesia and tea in China. What were they interested in in Japan?

How did German soldiers refer to their vehicles which start with "Sdkfz" and "Pzkpfw" etc. outside of formal contexts? I understand that in some cases it was common to shorten the names. (eg. 'Sturzkampfflugzeug' -> 'Stuka') Did they do this with all their vehicles? I find it hard to imagine casual conversations always including 'Sonderkraftfahrzeug' or 'Panzerkampfwagen' but maybe that's my bias as an English speaker!

Modern China’s 1.4 billion people account for only 17.9% of the current global population. Which country in history possessed the largest share of people at its time?

I'm looking to learn more about pre-Roman Europe in general, but don't have any specific questions so I'm just looking for book recommendations. Any region that isn't Greece will do, since the Greeks are one of the only pre-Roman European peoples that I know anything about. What books would be good starting points?

Also, if you have any book recommendations about the history of languages I'd love to hear those, since I've noticed an increase in how much I google "etymology of ____."

Would it be possible to read the weekly roundup on a blog somewhere or in a thread/feed here on reddit somewhere?

What was the average height of an Ottoman?

Every search I do for the average height of an ottoman during the ottoman empire shows up as the furniture item. Average height of an ottoman during the empires time please!?

When did people start calling New York "The City that Never Sleeps"? And is there a history of that term in other contexts?

Were spouses of jews killed in WW2 during the persecution of jews in Nazi germany? Was having a wife/children with jews enough to consider you jewish / be persecuted? Or would you be spared?

Do historians consider Vietnam’s protectorate rule over Cambodia to be an act of imperialism? It certainly appears to be similar in nature, such as attempting to replace Cambodian culture with Vietnamese culture and sending Vietnamese people to colonize their including many Vietnamese criminals.

Some of my friends insist that, during world war 2, Sweden gave Germany jews who escaped from Denmark and Norway. I've tried searching for answers to myself but every trustworthy source I check don't seem to have a clear answer to this.

This seems to be a question that should have it's own post but it's also kinda...stupid.

Why did Germany invade Belgium in WW1 over other options?

Were there any discussions about "Let's just knock out Russia first and not drag Britain in". One of the largest problems Germany faced was the blockade (yes they were soundly defeated military by the time of the revolution but the starving German citizens didn't help).

So why not do EVERYTHING possible to keep Britian out of the war? It's not like you can invade them even if you do manage to beat France.

Why not just invade Russia first, beat them, abandon the Schleiffen plan altogether, and then shell the Maginot line into the stone age? Did nobody think that Russia could be defeated before France?

1982 slang question! The very popular song 'Eye of the Tiger' by US band Survivor starts 'Rising up, back on the streets / Did my time, took my chances'. In 2021, this sounds like the narrator is fresh out of prison. Would early 80s audiences hear it the same way? Or did it have a different connotation 40 years ago?

Why does the Wikipedia page for Canada's involvement in WWI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Canada_during_World_War_I) not mention anything about Binaaswi (Francis) Pagahmagabow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Pegahmagabow)? He was the most deadly sniper in all of WW1: 378 kills and 300 captured, was in combat roles for basically the entire length of Canada's involvement in the war (1914-1918), did a bunch of other brave things and was given many medals.

-- Going off of memory because I don't have access to the book anymore -- In Mark Burkholder and Lyman Johnson's Colonial Latin America, it was mentioned that Cortes and his men wrapped cloth around the hooves of their horses to help dampen the sound and conceal their escape from Tenochtitlan under the cover of night.

Was this a common technique in the history of warfare and was it effective? I thought it was pretty cool.

What was typically built first when a medieval hamlet/village was being created?

Why is Mikhail I Romanov sometimes styled as Michael III? There weren't any Grand Duke of Muscovy called Michael before him, or am I wrong?

Can anyone recommend good books or articles about how humans figured out what we can and can't eat? Like the old quote 'it was a bold man who first ate an oyster', I'm interested in the trial and error that must have taken place throughout history when it comes to food.

Please can anyone recommend an accessible book on the history of al-Andalus?

Is it true that kruscheov destroyed evidence of trotsky collaborating with nazi germany?

The only source i've been able to found to confirm or disconfirm this was a book in russian. I don't speak that. And traslating it was painfully. Also, the guy who cited the source, grover furr, hasn't been able to provide a page number. I'm not inclined to belive him, and i haven't even seen this destroyed evidence in the Review at slavic review

The book Is called kak terror bol'shim. The story of secret order "no.0047"

What's the highest ever US individual income tax marginal rate? (federal+state+city)

I know that the highest ever federal income tax marginal rate is 94%,
during 1944-1945, but I'm wondering if there was an even higher income tax
rate when you take into account state and city income taxes.

In June 2021 issue of Scientific American, the historical page describes an idea from 100 years ago, that we could map repeated lightning strikes sufficiently to take targetted action to prevent forest fires. USDA foresters suggested fire breaks, grazing, even brush clearing around areas susceptible to strikes that might start fires.

Did anyone try to implement that? How did they approach it, given the technology of the day? What happened?

Does anyone have any good book recommendations about school integration in the 50s/60s?

Phil Sidnell's Warhorse notes that "modern scholarship has painstakingly reconstructed the order of battle at [Trajan's] disposal through the use of epigraphic evidence" on page 261, referring to Trajan's campaigns against the Dacians. Unfortunately, Sidnell doesn't give us much beyond that, and the notes don't provide an obvious place to start looking.

Where can we find the reconstructed order of battle for Trajan's Dacian Wars?

Was the Magyar-Bow still used, after the Magyars settled?

What are some of the best/most interesting/longest standing examples of enclaves like Galata?

Did people freak out when it was discovered that our galaxy is just one of TRILLIONS of entire other galaxies?

Are there any good books that focus specifically on the clean up and recovery efforts after 9/11?

Did Lavoisier "conducted his ‘fermier’ job with honesty and sincerity" and "never abused his authority to exploit the tax payers" like this paper claimed?

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/72804403.pdf

How did Norse warriors fare in combat against Central Asian mounted archers? My impression is that they were primarily infantry, which seems like they would be easy pickings to the central Asian nomads around the Volga river that the Norse travelled through.

What do people think about “How the great Khan uses paper for money” in The Travels of Marco Polo?

is the book "Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740" any good? i've already read colin woodwards the republic of pirates and a general history of the pirates and im interested in learning more about pirates outside of the golden age nassau period. is this book worth getting?

When was the last time a diplomat was killed by his/hers host country?

How many Roman-Persian Wars were there? If we don't know, what would be the most accurate estimate?

In what years would US officials (diplomats, military etc) have been assigned to posts in both Beijing and in East Berlin?

I have a short letter that was written while in "Peking" and mentions being posted to East Berlin next, following language training in Washington DC. I'm trying to figure out when it might have been written.

Why was Algeria considered French soil and not just a colony?

What is the difference between a 'war of independence', a 'revolution', and a 'civil war'?

Looking for some nations or countries from the past who rose to extreme power in the world. The rise of the nation I am thinking about would be like if Nigeria today was to rise above America.

When trains first came out, did people ever complain about the noise? Movies make them seem so serene and normal, but they didn't think to add soundproofing back then.

Were there globes before 1492 that would show half the world was empty ocean? Or would they show Asia just being really long?