Today:
You know the drill: this is the thread for all your history-related outpourings that are not necessarily questions. Minor questions that you feel don't need or merit their own threads are welcome too. Discovered a great new book, documentary, article or blog? Has your Ph.D. application been successful? Have you made an archaeological discovery in your back yard? Did you find an anecdote about the Doge of Venice telling a joke to Michel Foucault? Tell us all about it.
As usual, moderation in this thread will be relatively non-existent -- jokes, anecdotes and light-hearted banter are welcome.
Does anyone have suggestions for books or papers that give a way into academic analysis of religious texts that aren't the Bible? I've found academic analysis of the Bible absolutely fascinating and am curious how it works in other religions but I have no idea where to start.
Im making a game set in 1880’s France and there is a party (like a ball and it’s filled with nobles) but i don’t know what they wear or what music they liked at the time. I think they liked laces and bunched up fabric? I’m bad at descriptions
Are there other well documented “experimental archaeology” projects like Guédelon Castle?
I’ve been having so much fun learning about old castle construction from all their videos, and would love to know if there are more projects like this where people are doing entire projects as they would have been done in the past.
Your Weekly /r/askhistorians Recap
Friday, December 31 - Thursday, January 06
###Top 10 Posts
| score | comments | title & link |
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| 5,034 | 58 comments | Was my famous ancestor a Nazi collaborator? |
| 4,358 | 278 comments | [Meta] Our 20 Year Rule: You can now ask questions about 2002! |
| 3,896 | 147 comments | Westerns often depict decently-sized towns out in arid regions with little to no visible farmland. Is this purely a limitation of film budgets, or did settlements in the American west and northern Mexico in the 1800s actually generally import food rather than produce it locally? |
| 3,076 | 13 comments | Why do the German and English wikipedia articles on Bloody Sunday (1939) differ so much and what is the truth? They cite the same historian Jochen Böhler but come to vastly different conclusions on local ethnic Germans helping the nazi invasion. |
| 2,920 | 19 comments | What really happened in the so called Gujarat Riots in 2002 ? |
| 2,591 | 48 comments | Have male sexual slavery existed in the ancient world? Which civilizations practiced it? Did commoners participated in the buying of male sex slaves too? |
| 2,539 | 44 comments | The famous Rumble in the Jungle fight between Ali and Foreman is estimated to have had a viewership of 1 billion, a quarter of the world population... There's no way that's accurate, right? |
| 2,247 | 91 comments | [Great Question!] How common were wizards and magicians in war and battles? |
| 2,102 | 50 comments | How did Death Metal become so popular in Sweden, Norway and Finland? |
| 2,045 | 95 comments | How do historians tell the difference between legends that people actually believed, and ones that were just popular fictional stories? |
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Any advice for someone building a War Letters Collection and “processing center” for High School students?
We want them to be able to scan them, research them, and place them in to various databases/collections. For Humanities Degree students (that’s like Honors+ at this school). The plan it to have them work with mostly letters that have not been seen by historians.
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