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Time travel question for you guys;
Is there a time period that you would like to vacation in for a short while and is there a time period that you would like to move to if given the opportunity?
Full disease immunity, language isn't an issue, don't worry about time line chnages.
Bonus question; What would be your time travel vehicle? Phone booth, Delorean?
I'm feeling some kind of steampunk zeppelin.
Hi guys, I don't know if this deserves a post so I guess I'll try and comment in this thread. In the last couple of weeks, Youtube's algorithm has been proposing to me various videos from Dr Robert Sepehr. I've watched a couple and find his storytelling and ideas interesting. I don't seem to be able to find a lot on him, on Google and like to be careful about what kind of people/ideas I consume. What does this subreddit think about his views and propositions?
Thank you in advance for your help!
Happy new year!
Your Weekly /r/askhistorians Recap
Friday, December 24 - Thursday, December 30
###Top 10 Posts
| score | comments | title & link |
|---|---|---|
| 5,991 | 234 comments | Why isn’t the genocide of Native American’s spoken of in the same vein as the Jewish Holocaust? |
| 5,416 | 129 comments | My Uncle was a Tunnel Rat in Vietnam and has agreed to do an interview with me in the next 2 days, I need help finding the right questions to ask him. |
| 2,930 | 83 comments | Did slave owners actually eat slaves and black people during the Atlantic slave trade? There’s a tiktok that cites the Delectable Negro by Vincent Woodward talking about it. Did this actually happen? |
| 2,156 | 54 comments | How did Spain manage to go from being the richest state in Europe during the first half of the XVI century to declaring bankruptcy multiple times in 1557, 1560, 1576, 1590 ? |
| 2,150 | 43 comments | Is there definitive evidence that Roman gladiatorial combat wasn't actually a scripted sport like today's prowrestling? (I'm aware this sounds like a troll question, hear me out) |
| 2,002 | 35 comments | In "The Red Queen" it is mentioned that many medieval men had trouble finding women to marry, sometimes marrying only in their late 30's, because many young females were hired as the "help" in castles. To what extent was polygamy practiced in medieval Europe? |
| 1,847 | 10 comments | Did the first satellite pictures of earth clear up any misconceptions about the planet? |
| 1,839 | 69 comments | [Great Question!] In the Chinese SciFi novel "The Three Body Problem" the mass violence and persecution of the Cultural Revolution are important plot points that are often revisited throughout, what is the view of the Cultural Revolution and its consequences in modern China? |
| 1,807 | 58 comments | How much was Henry Ford himself responsible for the development of the modern assembly line? Was he a businessman who just took credit from a team of employees, or was he really spearheading the technical innovation? |
| 996 | 13 comments | Communist countries in eastern europe spoke about having "achieved socialism" in the 1960s and 1970s, as in the Czechoslovak Constitution of 1960. What exactly did this mean to them, in theory and practice? |
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I'm doing my undergrad thesis on religious proslavery thought and it's connection with slave religion in plantation ( the measures of acceptance of the slaveholder's religious views by slaves), further approaching antislavery religious thought by former slaves in slave narratives and black abolitionist newspapers and pamphlets.
I'm currently doing the historiographical essay part, but I'm having trouble finding books on proslavery thought that approach other things than the Curse of Ham.
On plantation religion, I've got Raboteau and Genovese and others but I have trouble with black religious antislavery thought, instead of the white abolitionist movement.
I'm from an Eastern Europe university and my supervisor is not versed in Afro-American history.
Can this French Armored Calvary Napoleonic Unit be identified? They appear in the film Waterloo guarding the French King Louis XVIII, they have red uniforms, silver helmets with black plumes and black breastplates, with the officer having a red breastplate:
https://i.imgur.com/rPFb904.jpg
I know the Bourbon Restoration made use of Swiss troops which would wear red, but I've never heard of a Swiss Cuirassier or Swiss Carabiniers-à-Cheval unit existing and neither regiment types were guard units.
Hey Reddit, during my research in natural law connections keep coming back to Zoroaster. Story of my life. The Persians as Zoroastrian were tolerant of those who paid their tribute. With Zoroastrianism’s influence on Islam and Christianity, why did we see such a divergence in tolerance and a move towards aggressive religion expansionism in subsequent Islamic and Christian states?
