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 know when volume 3 of Kotkin's biography of Stalin is going to be released?
Would anyone have any good south east Asia history podcasts? I have a class on it this semester and I always do better with audio sources for when studying.
I’ve been made aware by “Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History” by one of my old history profs so anything in his style works as well
Your Weekly /r/askhistorians Recap
Friday, October 07 - Thursday, October 13
###Top 10 Posts
| score | comments | title & link |
|---|---|---|
| 2,462 | 50 comments | Enzo Ferrari is reputed to have said: “Ask a child to draw a car, and certainly he will draw it red.” How did we come to associate race cars with the colour red? Is it the result of Ferrari? |
| 2,279 | 60 comments | Why were Chinese walls built so differently to European walls? What caused this divergence in wall construction? |
| 2,181 | 50 comments | [Judaism] Who decided on the English names of the translated Jewish Bible's books? |
| 2,117 | 35 comments | Why should I be "glad Nixon isn't Slovenian" as these campaign buttons claim I would be? |
| 2,115 | 26 comments | How was US President Ronald Reagan able to do so right-wing economic reforms while his party was in the minority in the House of Representatives for the entirety of his presidency? |
| 1,996 | 90 comments | More than sixty-five percent of American soldiers serving in Vietnam were volunteers. Was there a great bout of patriotism, or a belief in the cause that lead to this volunteering? Did volunteers dry up as the war dragged on and the situation was better understood back home? |
| 1,683 | 19 comments | If Churchill wanted to call Hitler during ww2 could he do so? How much communication was there in ww2 between the various sides and how was it accomplished? |
| 1,643 | 36 comments | How did New Age and offshoot movement become so obsessed with (often pseudo-)“Native American” culture? |
| 1,585 | 4 comments | It's 1956, the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable has been laid! I can afford it and i want to call my relatives in Italy. How does the money get distributed as my call bounces around? |
| 1,496 | 89 comments | Southern states in the US seceded in the 1860s fearing that slavery would be abolished. But couldn’t these states have blocked abolition for a very long time if they had just stayed? |
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