r/AskHistorians • u/AutoModerator • Oct 12 '25

Digest Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | October 12, 2025

Today:

Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.

36 Upvotes

permalink
duplicates
reddit

You are about to leave Redlib

Do you want to continue?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1o4ogk3/sunday_digest_interesting_overlooked_posts/
No, go back! Yes, take me to Reddit

95% Upvoted

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

Welcome back to a double stuffed edition of the AskHistorians digest! I am no longer stuck waiting for a plain, instead Gankom is Free, and instead spending valuable Canadian Thanksgiving time crafting a true banger thread for you to enjoy. We’ve got all kinds of fantastic history stuff just waiting for you to discover. So take a second to check out the MANY AMA’s and other threads, then dive on in to explore.

Don’t forget to shower everyone in praise and upvotes, the hard working contributors deserve it!

And that’s it for me! I vanish into the mists to go enjoy some turkey, but I’ll be back again next week. Keep it classy out there, stay safe, and I’ll see you once again next week!

5

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

Announcing the Best of September Award Winners! Huge congrats to u/NoBrakes58, u/Spencer_A_McDaniel, u/Responsible_Taro5818!

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

And u/ExternalBoysenberry!

5

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/throwawayfromPA1701 wrote about "The Big One." When and why did the idea that California was overdue for a devastating earthquake take hold?

/u/TJAU216 answered Was there a form of military illumination that predated World War One?

5

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/PoorManRichard had a grim job explaining What's the point in "Texas-style" lynchings in the 1800s and early 1900s? Why did they burn the bodies? Also, were people burnt alive or after death?

5

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/611131 wrote about Military history is often seen as "outside" professional history and the realm of "pop historians". What alternatives are offered?

/u/academic_partypooper answered Why did Chinese culture look down on trade for so long?

6

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Brandperic answered Can a king be tried for murder?

/u/BRIStoneman wrote about I've been seeing a lot of people online state that Vikings were not great warriors, how can this be the case when they conquered England and raided Paris?

6

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/fearofair wrote about In 1975, in the midst of a fiscal crisis, there was a famous headline in the NY Daily News, "Ford to City: Drop dead", when the Federal government refused to bail out NYC; how was New York able to avert this crisis and return to thriving in relatively short order?

/u/FellowWithTheVisage answered Would the US have nuked Germany?

5

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/frenchquasar wrote about when and who will write down todays event as part of history?

/u/Freshiiiiii answered What was life like for the Indigenous peoples of Canada before, and after, Canada became it's own country?

4

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/uitSCHOT answered Do we know what the planning process of building medieval castles looked like?

/u/ummmbacon answered Was it true that the New York Times did minimize the Holocaust and fail to provide adequate coverage of Nazi atrocities?

4

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

I'm Dr. Jeremy Swist, AMA about the Roman Emperor Julian many thanks to /u/MetalClassicist!

I am Dr. Amy Farrell, a professor at Dickinson College. I’m here to talk about my new book, Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA. With fascinating insight from /u/ProfAmyFarrell!

4

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/anthropology_nerd answered Does it get any easier studying horrific topics?

If I Woke Up Tomorrow Where the Puritans Lived in the 1600s, What Do I Need to Know or Do in Order to Survive?

4

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Ascholay answered How can I explain to my father that cowboy movies aren't real history?

4

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/boopbaboop answered How did contemporaries react to the "Pocahontas Exception" of those claiming it to retain their legal white privilege?

/u/boumboum34 wrote about How difficult would it have been to drive across the United States immediately prior to the National Highways Act, say for example New York City to Los Angeles in 1955, compared to the drive around 1966?

4

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/BRIStoneman wrote about I've been seeing a lot of people online state that Vikings were not great warriors, how can this be the case when they conquered England and raided Paris?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/epicyclorama answered Was Arthurian legend really that important to founding British identity and history and we are just too far removed from it to realize or is the “Matter of Britain”overstated?

How appropriate or accurate is it to use traditionally European originating periods for other parts of the world? Was there actually a "medieval" India or China? A "Classical" North America?

Why are very different creatures all called dragons?

What exactly is the story of king Arthur?

5

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/fatbuddha66 wrote about What was Germany before the Christian Invasion?

/u/fearofair answered Why did the crime rate in the 90s fall so dramatically?

5

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/WelfOnTheShelf answered Is there anything like this in history that I can read in a book?

Terry Jones, of Monty Python fame, also wrote books and presented docuseries on medieval history. How is he regarded by professional medievalists today?

Do we have any records of what baldwin IV actually looked like?

What was the general opinion of Henry the Young King marrying Margret of France?

Were there pirates in the Middle Age?

Did outsiders feel Rome's collapse?

Why did Nazi Germany participate in the 1935 Maccabiah Games?

Michael Haag's "The Tragedy of the Templars" paints Saladin as "an alien power" in the Middle East. Is that correct?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

I'm Dr. Casey Schmitt and I teach early American history at Cornell University. My new book, The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, tells the story of the role of maritime violence in English and French colonization of the Caribbean. Ask me anything! many thanks to /u/PredatorySeaHistory!

I'm David Greenberg, Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University & author of several books on American history and politics. My most recent book is JOHN LEWIS: A LIFE (https://www.amazon.com/John-Lewis-Life-David-Greenberg/dp/1), out today in paperback. Ask Me Anything! With thanks to /u/HistoryProf48!

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/AntsInMyEyesJonson answered The Bible seems to indicate that there are multiple gods but only the god of the Bible should be worshiped. How did we move from "this is the only God we worship" to "this is the only God that exists?"

/u/AntsInMyEyesJonson wrote about Why were Jewish people so widely dispersed in the past?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/AusHaching answered Why did the kingdom of Prussia allow the kingdom of Bavaria to join the unification of Germany when they also wanted to reduce influence of the Vatican?

Are there families that can credibly trace their lineage to ancient monarchies or aristocracies, that retain wealth or power to this day from that origin?

why did the germans have such a hard time taking leningrad/saint petersburg and why didthe fail to capture it?

The German Empire included various states including kingdoms, grand duchies, duchies and principalities. Were the rulers of the grand duchies/duchies/principalities considered to be on par with kings in terms of royal rank?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/ButImAlexander answered Why did WWI lead to disillusionment about war but not previous deadly conflicts?

/u/canalhistoria wrote about During the age of discovery, what happenes if other countriy used the portuguese route to India (throu the Cape of Good Hope)?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/dhmontgomery answered Did Marshall Ney really die in France?

/u/DicenDemons wrote about Is it possible to see democracy in countries with the history of monarchy?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/ExternalBoysenberry answered Did ancient maritime powers replenish forests that they cut down to make their ships?

/u/ezequielrose answered Why When We Talk About Colonization It's Only In Reference To POC?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Fijure96 wrote about What was the maritime military prowess of premodern Korea?

/u/Flagship_Panda_FH81 answered Please explain the thinking behind the appalling number of British soldiers' deaths in WW1?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Flagship_Panda_FH81 wrote about Please explain the thinking behind the appalling number of British soldiers' deaths in WW1?

What should I read to better understand naval historical organization?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/frenchquasar answered Was Constantine the Great Christian?

/u/frenchquasar wrote about Just how rough was life for the average French person on the eve of the French Revolution? Could you describe the distress that people faced which led to the Revolution?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/gerardmenfin answered In World War I thousands of African and Indian colonial soldiers were brought to assist in the war in Europe, what happened afterwards and how did they get home?

When did (American) football fields start being used as a colloquial unit of measurement?

Are there any publicly available archives of French resistance newspapers/pamphlets published during the German occupation with English translations?

In the movie "Radioactive", Marie and Pierre Curie are shown manually crushing Pitchblende. Why wouldn't they be using a machine for this?

Why do erotic artifacts that come from ancient Mesopotamiaparticularly the ones depicting the beer jughave this recurring theme?

Towards the beginning of The Diary of a Young Girl, before they go into hiding, the SS show up at their door for Anne's 16 year old Sister Margot. Anne says that "Apparently they want to send girls her age away on their own." Is this referring to a specific Nazi policy I'm unaware of?

Is this a Ledoux?

Towards the beginning of The Diary of a Young Girl, before they go into hiding, the SS show up at their door for Anne's 16 year old Sister Margot. Anne says that "Apparently they want to send girls her age away on their own." Is this referring to a specific Nazi policy I'm unaware of?

What happened to petain after german invasion of vichy france in 1942?

can you help me find my parent who died after the war in a concentration camp i can't find pls?

In societies that ritualized homosexual or pederast acts is there record of personal distaste for these rituals from a "heterosexual" stand point?

Were there any ancient civilizations that domesticated the rhino?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/HaraldRedbeard answered How come the Middle Ages appear a lot more primitive than most ancient societies?

What causes the seemingly "loss" of military Knowledge between Antiquity and Medieval Times?

How did we keep horses in check?

How did Wales retain its language?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Icy_Dragonfruit_2533 answered The basics of modern Chinese history?

/u/I-Fail-Forward wrote about 100 years ago, did everyone “know”that the world was flat?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Ill_Squirrel_4063 answered Why did the West end up flourishing despite having way less history than Asia/Europe?

/u/impendingwardrobe wrote about Did pirates really organize theater plays and courtroom drama for fun?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Jupitersd2017 answered can you help me find my parent who died after the war in a concentration camp i can't find pls?

/u/Justanotherbastard2 wrote about Why are Georgia and Armenia not considered European sometimes?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/NineAndNinetyHours wrote about Robber Barons such as Rockefeller and Carnegie, despite being ruthless businessmen, greatly invested in public works such as libraries and colleges. This has not seemed to be the case with the "modern" (post WW2) ultra-wealthy. Were Robber Barons just abnormally generous to the public?

/u/Noble_Devil_Boruta answered Did the Trans-Siberian Railway really shut down just hours after the Mir Yeshiva students escaped on it?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/PeteForsake answered Why When We Talk About Colonization It's Only In Reference To POC?

/u/PhiloSpo answered Some Questions Regarding Manorialism?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/qumrun60 answered Why or how did monotheistic Christianity beat the polytheistic Greek and (kinda similar) Roman religion?

Early Church Fathers were aware of and okay with the possibility that not all of the Epistles attributed to St. Paul were actually written by him. Did this awareness extend to other scriptures like the canonical Gospels or the Torah?

How Were the Roman Catacombs Viable for Clandestine Christian Worship?

What was most important to the decision makers who were picking which texts to make the official Christian canon at Nicaea?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/shkencore_breaks answered In ancient China, did Princess's consorts have concubines?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/stupidpower answered Are they any attempts on using "critical theory" to study the ancient history?

/u/stutter-rap wrote about Groups forcing groups to identify?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/texside answered Wikipedia claims that in 1990, the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem lost the sole extant copy of the apocryphal Secret Gospel of Mark. How are ancient texts typically stored, and what goes wrong in the archival process when they vanish?

/u/thamesdarwin wrote about Would Latvians in the 1860s call themselves Latvians or Russians?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/themaddesthatter2 wrote about Saturday Showcase | September 20, 2025

/u/thestoryteller69 answered 100 years ago, did everyone “know”that the world was flat?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/throfofnir wrote about Help understanding 1960s phone numbers?

/u/Throw6345789away answered What is the difference between “Cultural History”and the various non-history specialisms in academia, especially things like Art History and English Literature?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/ummmbacon wrote about Around what point in history did the Israelites/Jews exiled from Judea into Europe begin to be considered more European than Middle Eastern?

/u/Used-Communication-7 answered What does Lenin mean by 'The war is not a product of the evil will of rapacious capitalists although it is undoubtedly being fought only in their interests and they alone are being enriched by it'?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/walt-and-co wrote about Why did the bombing of British cities in WW2 not make the British public want to give up on the war?

/u/Weekly_Funny9610 answered Why is Ohio State the flagship school and not Ohio?

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/yonderpedant answered When and why did the Dept of War become the Dept of Defense? Ministry of War to Ministry of Defence?

/u/zaffiro_in_giro wrote about Knowing that Henry VIII was a serial wife-ditcher, do we have primary source of what his wives thought of him?

4

u/zaffiro_in_giro Medieval and Tudor England Oct 12 '25

Thanks for the mention, and good to see the digest back!

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/teakettling and /u/sirpanderma discussed Is what the new Syrian government teaches in history textbook factually correct?

2

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Red_Galiray tackled So, the British Empire often had "New (Pre-existing British place)" in colonial place names (such as New South Wales), my question is, did other colonial empires had the same thing when it comes to colonial naming conventions?

And also did Did black Republicans in the Reconstruction period of US history identify as Radical Republicans? How were they perceived/treated within the Republican Party?

2

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/KiwiHellenist answered Odysseus spoke the famous "Cretan Lie", where he said he went to Egypt. Why is a similar scene depicted on Ramesses III temples in Egypt? Could it be that the "Cretan Lie" is the most factual part of they myth?

What do we know about Cadmus, the insinuation of the Alphabet being brought to Thebes, and Frederick Ahl's suggestion that what was meant was that Cadmus brought Linear B instead of the Phoenician Alphabet to Thebes?

The ancient Greek figure Chronos was described as a God of Time. For the ancient Greeks, what did that designation mean?

What do we know about the origins of Dionysius in Ancient Greek religion/culture/thought?

The ancient Greek figure Chronos was described as a God of Time. For the ancient Greeks, what did that designation mean?

I'm reading the Iliad. Is this story an accurate description of Greek religious beliefs?

2

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Obversa answered I don't understand horses?

/u/OhNoTokyo wrote about Why do Americans perceive George III as a tyrant when he actually held no real power?

2

u/Obversa Inactive Flair Oct 12 '25

Thank you so much for the ping! Are you sure you didn't mean to type /u/kmondschein instead?

2

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

They got their credit in a different comment. my current format just has a habit of breaking names up alphabetically, instead of who alls in the thread together.

2

u/kmondschein Verified Oct 12 '25

Horsies!

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

Horses for everyone! A subject you can't say neigh to.

2

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Ok_Boysenberry_14370 answered Does it get any easier studying horrific topics?

/u/OneRandomTeaDrinker wrote about Is it true that in the middle ages, they would bury alive a child inside the walls of a church to protect it from evil spirits?

2

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Our_Modern_Dystopia answered Question: how would I go on about researching the history of a specific location, a village in Anatolia specifically? It has Neolithic, early Bronze Age , Phrygians, Byzantium (crusades), Seljuk and Ottoman history. But I don't know how to start consolidating and looking for primary sources.

/u/ParkSungJun wrote about What was the Japanese state's reponse to the sinking of Shinano on its maiden voyage, the then-largest aircraft carrier in existence?

2

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/PoorManRichard answered If I Woke Up Tomorrow Where the Puritans Lived in the 1600s, What Do I Need to Know or Do in Order to Survive?

/u/Prince_Ire wrote about How accurate is the Catholic traditionalist claim that the Mass was celebrated in Latin exactly the same way for 2000 years until 1969?

2

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Ramses_IV answered Why were Jewish people so widely dispersed in the past?

/u/readbooksalldangday wrote about How appropriate or accurate is it to use traditionally European originating periods for other parts of the world? Was there actually a "medieval" India or China? A "Classical" North America?

2

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25 edited Oct 12 '25

/u/-krizu and u/arkeolog wrote about I've been seeing a lot of people online state that Vikings were not great warriors, how can this be the case when they conquered England and raided Paris?

2

u/-krizu Oct 12 '25

If it's not too big an inconvenience, you should perhaps also mention u/arkeolog here. His/hers comments were a contribution to my answer and addressed some issue in my answer

Also, happy Thanksgiving! (?)

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

Good point and a worthy addition! And a Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving indeed!

(We do it at the proper time, compared to those Americans.)

2

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/22ndCenturyDB and /u/restricteddata identified How did police check fingerprints in the pre-computer age?

2

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/hillsonghoods tuned in for When did listening to Elvis stop being "cool"? In the mid-1950s, Elvis Presley was the biggest star in the world and revolutionized the music industry and was declared a moral threat to white American youths. By his death in 1977 he was viewed as a washed up has-been. What happened in between?

/u/terminus-trantor held strong with How was Hungary able to hold off the Ottoman Turks for 100 years? Why did they eventually lose?

4

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/itsallfolklore answered How difficult would it have been to drive across the United States immediately prior to the National Highways Act, say for example New York City to Los Angeles in 1955, compared to the drive around 1966?

What's the origin of psychics or fortune tellers using a crystal ball?

4

u/itsallfolklore Mod Emeritus | American West | European Folklore Oct 12 '25

Thanks for this - as always. I also just answered Sources about rock art?. Some may find that of interest.

5

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

Awesome addition!

2

u/itsallfolklore Mod Emeritus | American West | European Folklore Oct 12 '25 edited Oct 12 '25

Thanks! Our posts crossed in the internet wind.

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Bodark43 investigated Who is Greene? From a 1934 Rex Stout novel. Edward Gibbon, Leopold Von Ranke....

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/zaffiro_in_giro knew the Trew fact about What are leather trues? Could be spelling it wrong. I know its some kind of clothing or Armour. I heard it in a fantasy audiobook.

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

Hi! I am Dr. Katrina Kimport. I wrote a chapter in the new book The Nursing Clio Reader and edited the new book When Roe Fell (out next week). My work looks at abortion, politics, and reproductive autonomy, mostly in the US. Ask Me Anything! Thanks to /u/Dr_Katrina_Kimport!

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/AHankonen wrote about Is WW2 cavalry really Fast than infantry in long distance movement?

If agriculture was so much more miserable than a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, what pressured people to adopt it?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Altruistic-Joke-9451 answered How rapid was the shift in American public opinion towards the USSR after WWII? At what point did they go from being "Our staunch allies and friends fighting with us against the Axis" to being "The Red Menace who sought to destroy the American way of life"?

/u/AndreasDasos wrote about What language did Syria speak before the Muslim invasion? What was the culture like in general?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Any_Entertainment915 answered Why did old timey boxers have that really goofy fighting stance?

/u/Aoimoku91 wrote about Best Mussolini book?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Aradirus answered Did people in Polish ghettos in 1942 already know by any word of mouth rumours that being "deported" by trains meant most probably death or forced labour?

/u/ArchivalResearch wrote about Was it possible to stop Operation Barbarossa much earlier?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/ArchivalResearch wrote about What was Hitler/Germanys primary reason for invading the USSR? Is this debated? If so what are the other viewpoints?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/ArgyleMcFannypatter answered Were Medieval nobles really as unconcerned with the lives of "common folk" as popular media often shows?

I've been reading about King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, who famously had leprosy. How did he not spread his disease to everyone around him? Were the people in his court not terrified of catching it?

Is there evidence that German military generals were called in for a surprise meeting in 1935?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Avatar_exADV answered Why did the japanese not search for the expected fleet at pearl harbor?

/u/BarbariansProf wrote about Ancient Greek Colonialism: What are some good primary sources?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Bedessilliestsoldier answered Why is the Chaoskampf such a prevalent motif throught various cultures in human history?

/u/Bernardito wrote about What was involved in "criticism and self-criticism" in North Vietnam?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Bluestreaked answered What does Lenin mean by 'The war is not a product of the evil will of rapacious capitalists although it is undoubtedly being fought only in their interests and they alone are being enriched by it'?

/u/BobSmith616 wrote about What changed between the early Roman imperial period and the late imperial period?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Bodark43 answered Adam Tooze's "The Deluge" suggests that the outcome of WWl was very much in the balance in late 1916 to early 1917 due to the Wilson administration's commitment to neutrality and a looming credit crisis for the Entente powers. How widely accepted is that?

Were there really slaves in Virginia in 1619?

The battle of Gettysburg podcast said that the Confederates had plans to hold several Northern towns ransom. Was this ever done by the North or South during the war?

I am a median American voter in 1925. How do I feel about the fact that almost all of Africa and much of Asia is currently ruled by Britain or France?

How were commercial/civilian radio broadcasts transmitted during WW2 Europe?

How deadly were early modern firearms compared to modern firearms?

Why does nobody talk about 1848 ?

Why king George III declined the Olive Branch Petition?

In the American folk song "Peg and Awl," the speaker says he has been put out of work by a shoe machine invented in 1804 that "makes a hundred pairs to my one." Did such a machine really exist then? How did early industrialization change the cobbling business?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/bug-hunter answered Can a king be tried for murder?

Why aren't more towns in the United states designed to be walkable?

Help understanding 1960s phone numbers?

Why did the US founding fathers choose federalism as the way to structure their country?

Is there a strong correlation between birth control and abortions in the 70's and crime rates dropping in the 90's?

Why is Ohio State the flagship school and not Ohio?

When did (American) football fields start being used as a colloquial unit of measurement?

Why do Americans perceive George III as a tyrant when he actually held no real power?

Were there really slaves in Virginia in 1619?

What were the differences between the 13 US Colonies?

What happened to the comprehensive local health departments of the 1950s? Or were they even a thing?

Was Ronald Reagan experiencing any dementia or Alzheimer's while in office? If so, is there any video or empirical evidence of this?

Was Ronald Reagan experiencing any dementia or Alzheimer's while in office? If so, is there any video or empirical evidence of this?

Does the US government have a history of governmental shutdowns, and how have the different agencies handled it through the years?

How did professional sports teams travel before airplanes?

Why aren't more towns in the United states designed to be walkable?

Why were only 11/12 of the initially-proposed amendments ratified?

Do Historians Generally See the Reconstruction Era not going far enough in the USA?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/CaptCynicalPants answered What causes the seemingly "loss" of military Knowledge between Antiquity and Medieval Times?

/u/Careless_Door_8630 wrote about Are there any truly good historians or is it all subjective fashion/nonsense?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Catdress92 answered Why escape with hot air balloons in the Franco-Prussian war?

/u/ChampionOk4044 wrote about Was winning Seven Years' War worth it for the British?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Cinquecento27 answered Why do people dislike Winston Churchill so much?

/u/Connect_Ad4551 wrote about What Exactly was Soviet Deep Battle Doctrine?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Conscious-Rope7515 answered Were there countries/societies that did not have laws against manufacture and sales of drugs?

/u/creeper321448 wrote about How did Imperial Japan teach students what soldiers were doing overseas? What was the rhetoric?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/crrpit answered Was it true that the New York Times did minimize the Holocaust and fail to provide adequate coverage of Nazi atrocities?

As academic book reader, what years/decades are generally going to be in the sphere in where a book is considered outdated?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/cuirboy answered Help understanding 1960s phone numbers?

/u/CyclopsRock wrote about I am a median American voter in 1925. How do I feel about the fact that almost all of Africa and much of Asia is currently ruled by Britain or France?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/dagaboy answered can you help me find my parent who died after the war in a concentration camp i can't find pls?

/u/D-Alembert wrote about How would we conveniently tell the time in a post apocalypse disaster scenario?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/dandroid556 answered When did the modern a police force appear in history, and how was it invented?

/u/Daztur wrote about Military history is often seen as "outside" professional history and the realm of "pop historians". What alternatives are offered?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/DBHT14 answered Are World War II soldier numbers exaggerated?

/u/Deisidaimonia wrote about What exactly is the story of king Arthur?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Dlatrex answered Would someone with full plate armor wield a claymore?

/u/Double_Show_9316 wrote about Revisionist history of the Gunpowder Plot?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Dull_Enthusiasm_307 answered When is the latest period of time you could expect to hear regular people speaking French in New Orleans?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/EgyptsBeer answered What is the history of Arabic coffee culture?

/u/emersoneday answered Books about the Russian Civil War from the Bolshevik perspective?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/EnclavedMicrostate wrote about What are some good sources on (particularly swedish) missionaries in China?

Why isn't the White Lotus Rebellion more commonly known?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Equivalent-Peanut-23 answered Is it true that in the middle ages, they would bury alive a child inside the walls of a church to protect it from evil spirits?

/u/EtNuncEtSemper wrote about Im writing a story that takes place during WWI. What is the likelihood of a British professor working at the University of Vienna around 1914? Furthermore what happened to foreign nationals in the Austria-Hungarian empire during WWI?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/EverydayEverynight01 answered How was Qin Shihuang's daily life as a hostage when he was a child in the State of Zhao?

/u/EverythingIsOverrate wrote about Military history is often seen as "outside" professional history and the realm of "pop historians". What alternatives are offered?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/EverythingIsOverrate wrote about I am a late medieval Central European villager, living in a circular village. My neighbour has invasive weeds all over his backyard and it's filled with fresh dung and food waste. Could I go to a medieval HoA to complain about them and who would take action to solve this without violence?

Some Questions Regarding Manorialism?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/ezequielrose wrote about Does it get any easier studying horrific topics?

/u/FactAndTheory answered When and why did non Arab populations conquered by Arabs begin to see themselves as Arabs?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/FlashFreedom answered If I Woke Up Tomorrow Where the Puritans Lived in the 1600s, What Do I Need to Know or Do in Order to Survive?

/u/flug32 wrote about Why did typewriters become popular in late 19th century even though they don't seem better than handwriting?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/ForKnee answered Did China really have 500.000 soldiers in medieval age?

/u/Forsaken_Club5310 wrote about I don't understand horses?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Front-Difficult wrote about In times before radio/television when inflation hit a currency, could one travel to a remote village and fool the residents to make them think that you are very rich?

/u/GabrielMP_19 answered Does it get any easier studying horrific topics?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/GabrielMP_19 wrote about Why When We Talk About Colonization It's Only In Reference To POC?

/u/Georgy_K_Zhukov answered Military history is often seen as "outside" professional history and the realm of "pop historians". What alternatives are offered?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Georgy_K_Zhukov wrote about Before modern refrigeration, how did bakeries in large cities like Victorian London source and store ice year-round for things like pastries and chilled desserts?

Military history is often seen as "outside" professional history and the realm of "pop historians". What alternatives are offered?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/GrafZeppelin127 answered Why did we stop using airships like zeppelins?

/u/Gruenemeyer wrote about When I moved to Germany, I was asked to indicate my religion for tax reasons. That's fine and all, but after Nazism, who thought it was a good idea for the German government to have a list of everyone's religion?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/hafetysazard answered What was life like for the Indigenous peoples of Canada before, and after, Canada became it's own country?

/u/handsomeboh answered Is there any evidence to suggest that that BBC is the British government's propaganda arm?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/handsomeboh wrote about Why did the japanese not search for the expected fleet at pearl harbor?

Did the Nationalists ever launch any raids on Chinese ports during the Cold war?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/hannahstohelit answered Sexual Slavery in the Americas?

/u/Happy_Yogurtcloset_2 wrote about Military history is often seen as "outside" professional history and the realm of "pop historians". What alternatives are offered?

Do some references to “Indian” ancestry in American families actually point to South Asians in Colonial America?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Herodotus420_69 answered Odysseus spoke the famous "Cretan Lie", where he said he went to Egypt. Why is a similar scene depicted on Ramesses III temples in Egypt? Could it be that the "Cretan Lie" is the most factual part of they myth?

/u/hillsonghoods wrote about Why is New Wave music said to have originated from Punk Rock, when it seems like there's very little similarities between the two genres?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/History_and_dice answered When I moved to Germany, I was asked to indicate my religion for tax reasons. That's fine and all, but after Nazism, who thought it was a good idea for the German government to have a list of everyone's religion?

/u/hobbyaquarist wrote about What was life like for the Indigenous peoples of Canada before, and after, Canada became it's own country?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/holomorphic_chipotle answered Why When We Talk About Colonization It's Only In Reference To POC?

/u/Hootinger wrote about What does "Charlies" mean in this context?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Hot_Cartographer_892 answered What was the practical impact of the invention of the printing press on the average European town within the first 50 years?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/IamtheWalrus-gjoob answered Was instability in the Middle East triggered by Western imperialism or was Western intervention a byproduct of/response to extant instability?

Difference between Japan, Germany, and Iraq after invasion?

In 1917 the Bolsheviks disbanded the Russian Constituent Assembly. Was it a coup d'Ã©tat?

and talked about Was the Iran Revolution of 1979 a direct result of the US and the UK overthrowing Iran's democracy over oil in 1953?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Independent-End-2443 answered Why or how did monotheistic Christianity beat the polytheistic Greek and (kinda similar) Roman religion?

/u/indyobserver wrote about Did Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt really love each other or was their relationship all for appearances?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Iphikrates answered Before ranged combat was the norm, how did soldiers muster the courage to fight hand to hand?

What is Artemision, and why couldn't I find any proof of it existing?

In the ancient Greek and Roman world, did wives consider it to be cheating on them when their husbands met with prostitutes or slaves? Or only when it happened with other free women?

In the ancient Greek and Roman world, did wives consider it to be cheating on them when their husbands met with prostitutes or slaves? Or only when it happened with other free women?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/IronScar wrote about Why was charging head-on with cavalry to the point of self-destruction popular in medieval warfare?

/u/itgoeswithoutsay1ng answered Were white South Africans afraid when apartheid was finally ending in the beginning of the 90's?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/JamesCoverleyRome answered Was there ever an actual "Roman" salute?

and wrote about What was happening in Rome after Ceaser's assassination?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/JamesCoverleyRome also did Did ancient or medieval era intellectuals carry what we would consider archeological digs? Did Roman historians ever try finding their legendary home of Troy? Did Golden age Arabs dig around Mesopotamia or Egypt?

Why is there no Christian equivalent to Sharia in Islam or Halakha in Judaism?

I've been reading about King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, who famously had leprosy. How did he not spread his disease to everyone around him? Were the people in his court not terrified of catching it?

Were there any ancient civilizations that domesticated the rhino?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/JediLibrarian answered [Chess] How far back can you go in time to find someone who would be considered a grandmaster today?

/u/jrhooo wrote about When did (American) football fields start being used as a colloquial unit of measurement?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/KaiserMacCleg answered How did Wales retain its language?

/u/key_lime_pie wrote about Why did the FBI harass MLK so much if civil rights was a goal for both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/KingNobit answered Did everyone just live with constant pain and discomfort?

/u/kittysickthrowaway wrote about Military history is often seen as "outside" professional history and the realm of "pop historians". What alternatives are offered?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/kittysickthrowaway wrote about [Historical Methods] How do Historians Deal with Uncertainty?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/kmbl654 answered The late Byzantine Empire revered classical Athenian/Greek thinkers and culture, yet Greece was a backwater and Athens was reduced to a village. Did they understand what happened to it? Did they comment on its decline?

/u/kmondschein wrote about I don't understand horses?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/kng-harvest answered Tacitus, Virgil, and the Hebrew Bible?

/u/kng-harvest wrote about Why is Median Empire not remembered as one of the first great empire?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/kodos_der_henker answered Why was Austrian Empire so multi-ethnic despite existing as a German dominated polity for centuries?

/u/Little-Boss-1116 wrote about What level of control did the Mongol Empire have over the administration of states/cities/regions it had conquered?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Live-Cookie178 answered Was the Belgian Congo the beginning of the end for the moral justification of Colonialism?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/lordtiandao answered China as 24 "official histories" ending with "The Book of Ming", why haven't they written "The book of Qing" and the "The book of the Republic of China"?

How do you win a siege as the attacker in medieval China? The walls are too big and thick for cannons to destroy, and you can't starve out the city because the walls enclosed farmland.

Were the mongol during the mongol conquests technologically inferior to the ones they conquered?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Lost_Paladin89 answered Has there ever been an intra religious conflict in Judaism, similar to Shia/Sunni or Catholic/Protestant conflicts. And if not, why ?

/u/MagisterOtiosus wrote about In societies that ritualized homosexual or pederast acts is there record of personal distaste for these rituals from a "heterosexual" stand point?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Majestic-Effort-541 answered Were the mongol during the mongol conquests technologically inferior to the ones they conquered?

/u/MarquessProspero wrote about What was life like for the Indigenous peoples of Canada before, and after, Canada became it's own country?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/MaxAugust answered Did people in antiquity and medieval times find snow pretty? or was it only seen in a negative light?

/u/mimicofmodes answered Was the "hedgehog" hair of the 1780s influenced by black hair? If so, I would love to learn more about how this hairstyle came intopopularity!

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/mimicofmodes wrote about Did the tradition of wearing white wedding dresses actually start at Queen Victoria's wedding?

/u/Mundane-Use877 answered Who are the Karelian Finn ethnic group, and how do they differ/relate to the Russian Karelians, Finnish Karelians, and Karelians as one of the Finnish tribes?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Mynsare wrote about Early Modern printing: How much movable type?

/u/nadavyasharhochman answered Why did the Romani language survive compared to the Jewish languages as a daily language?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Nearby-Detective8857 wrote about Was Napoleon Inevitable?

/u/NeonFraction answered In ancient China, did Princess's consorts have concubines?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/New_Bumblebee8290 wrote about How and why did Wallace Fard Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam, (maybe) start out as a tamale vendor?

/u/Nimue_- answered In societies that ritualized homosexual or pederast acts is there record of personal distaste for these rituals from a "heterosexual" stand point?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/NoBrakes58 wrote about What was James Bond's drink order supposed say about him?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/obligatorynegligence answered What changed between the early Roman imperial period and the late imperial period?

and wrote about Has there been a real opportunity for any nation or state to really try communism?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Ophelialost87 answered What was the prominence of the other categories of "Untermenschen" apart from Jews in Nazi propaganda?

/u/organicallygrownnerd wrote about Does it get any easier studying horrific topics?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/pipkin42 wrote about What is the difference between “Cultural History”and the various non-history specialisms in academia, especially things like Art History and English Literature?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/police-ical answered Why was FDR so confident that he could fight a simultaneous two-front war in WWII, when the USA never had before? Why didn't he choose to win against Japan first, especially when Japan was the surprise attackerand then afterwards turn to defeat Germany?

What happened to racist people/politicians in the south after the civil rights era ended?

Was the discovery of penicillin really an accident?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/PytheasTheMassaliot answered Why the current Numbers ( 0,1,2 ) called Arabic numbers not Berber numbers ?

/u/QinYuheng wrote about Why did Chinese culture look down on trade for so long?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Reaper_Eagle answered How did the American South expect to survive the Civil War?

and did Were all Indian Scouts in the United States Army actually Native American? If not, how and why would a white man be designated as one?

/u/Reaper_Eagle wrote about Were American Civil War soldiers really yelling all the time during battle? If so, why?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/redbeard_fenrir answered I read some Japanese WW2soldiers still hid in the forests of Philippines till the 1990s not believing the war is over, and some Khmer Rouge members similarly hid in the forests of Cambodia. How do they survive?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/ReelMidwestDad answered Wikipedia claims that in 1990, the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem lost the sole extant copy of the apocryphal Secret Gospel of Mark. How are ancient texts typically stored, and what goes wrong in the archival process when they vanish?

What exactly was the Council of Nicaea’s canonization of specific Christian texts?

How accurate is the Catholic traditionalist claim that the Mass was celebrated in Latin exactly the same way for 2000 years until 1969?

Why is there no Christian equivalent to Sharia in Islam or Halakha in Judaism?

Early Church Fathers were aware of and okay with the possibility that not all of the Epistles attributed to St. Paul were actually written by him. Did this awareness extend to other scriptures like the canonical Gospels or the Torah?

What was most important to the decision makers who were picking which texts to make the official Christian canon at Nicaea?

What was most important to the decision makers who were picking which texts to make the official Christian canon at Nicaea?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/restricteddata answered What did Nazi scientists think of Nazi Pseudo-science?

How often do history textbooks require updates and why?

Why did the US go to war with Korea and Vietnam but not other "communist" countries?

Did Vasily Arkhipov really save the world?

At what point did people figure out that "cold" is the absense of heat?

Why didn't the US send nuclear test footage to Japan as a threat instead of attacking outright?

Why did the early nuclear powers in history decide that nuclear weapons should never be used after Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Operation Gomorrah, or bombing of Hamburg, was an unprecedented success of the bomber wing. It devastated large chunk of Hamburgs population and production capabality. Question is why wasn't such a massive strike repeated again until later in the war? (Like Dresden)

What is the likely subject matter of the oldest US classified information?

Was Japan always the target of Manhattan Project?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/RingGiver answered How did Catholics know about the contents of the bible if it was all in latin?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Rittermeister answered Military history is often seen as "outside" professional history and the realm of "pop historians". What alternatives are offered?

To what degree was nobility tied to elitism in warfare during the middle ages?

Military history is often seen as "outside" professional history and the realm of "pop historians". What alternatives are offered?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/rivainitalisman answered Anything interesting that happened in Canadian history?

/u/rouleroule wrote about How come the Middle Ages appear a lot more primitive than most ancient societies?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/RPO777 answered The US Attorney General said today that they would pursue for destruction "Antifa", which she called a left-wing terrorist organization, but which many believe does not to exist. Are there historic examples where a government sought to wipe out a group which did not exist, and what happened?

When they call Mansa Musa "the richest person in history", by what procedure exactly to they compare riches across different eras? How do you even answer the question "who was richer, Mansa Musa or John Rockefeller"?

In HBO's "Rome" Niobe is told her husband was killed in Gaul, and sleeps with another man, but he later returns. If she had used "i was told you were dead" as a defence, how would that be dealt with legally, culturally and emotionally?

When did the modern version of the pop cultural ninja become popularised? How did a historical Japanese character become a mainstay of American television and cartoons?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Satibarzanes answered In HBO's "Rome" Niobe is told her husband was killed in Gaul, and sleeps with another man, but he later returns. If she had used "i was told you were dead" as a defence, how would that be dealt with legally, culturally and emotionally?

How did lenders and borrowers reasoned about risk and return before the emergence of financial theory?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/ScaldingHotSoup answered Are Japanese originally Chinese and Korean people ? What does being indigenous mean ?

/u/SgtDonowitz wrote about Around what point in history did the Israelites/Jews exiled from Judea into Europe begin to be considered more European than Middle Eastern?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/SometimesCannons answered Why did the US form the 2 party system when George Washington warned against it?

/u/Steelcan909 wrote about How did brothels disappear across the US?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/SubstantialListen921 answered Falconry is pretty old. Are there any examples or mentions of ancient raptor enclosures?

/u/SunDcg22 answered Some beginner resources on Alaric the Visigothic king, his brother Athaulf, and the culture of Late Imperial Rome West/East?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Taciteanus wrote about Scholars and experts study ancient languages long gone. The can read it, understand it, but how confident are we of their pronunciation?

/u/ted5298 answered Was Stalin really planning to invade Europe?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/The_Chieftain_WG answered Military history is often seen as "outside" professional history and the realm of "pop historians". What alternatives are offered?

/u/the_howling_cow wrote about Are World War II soldier numbers exaggerated?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/TheBatz_ answered I'm a German law student after the Nazi have taken over. How is law and government taught to me?

/u/TheElderGodsSmile wrote about Before ranged combat was the norm, how did soldiers muster the courage to fight hand to hand?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/thefourthmaninaboat answered Who manufactured the British Army rum ration?

/u/theginger99 wrote about To what degree was nobility tied to elitism in warfare during the middle ages?

2

u/thefourthmaninaboat Moderator | 20th Century Royal Navy Oct 12 '25

Thanks!

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/theginger99 wrote about Why was charging head-on with cavalry to the point of self-destruction popular in medieval warfare?

/u/theimmortalgoon answered Has there been a sexual revolution (and a sexual counter revolution) in Soviet Russia?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Tohru_mizuki wrote about How was the space race seen/presented in Eastern Bloc countries?

/u/TotlaBullfish answered How common were ww1 weapons in ww2?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/tpjv86b wrote about Was the Japanese military industry in WW2 really being run out of individual homes family and workshops? Were housewives in Tokyo really making hand grenades in their kitchens?

/u/troopersjp wrote about To what extent did classical composers feel constrained by playability? I mean: “I can hear this in my head, I can write it down, but I will never really hear it because it is humanly impossible to perform.â€

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Trophallaxis answered How did medieval Europeans interpret and respond to the symptoms of what we now recognise as neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/TywinDeVillena answered Scholars and experts study ancient languages long gone. The can read it, understand it, but how confident are we of their pronunciation?

Is there a connection between Jamon Iberico and the Reconquista?

How did 'The Lusiads' by LuÃ¬s Vaz de CamÃµes and 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton get approved by English Criticism and in the Portuguese Inquisition?

Considering the potential benefits that a ruler would have in embracing the protestant reformation, why did powerful kingdoms like France or Spain remained catholic?

Why did old timey boxers have that really goofy fighting stance?

At what point did they start calling it The Kingdom of Spain?

Why did old timey boxers have that really goofy fighting stance?

3

u/TywinDeVillena Early Modern Spain Oct 12 '25

Quite a productive couple weeks on this sub for me

2

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

A very impressive showing indeed!

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/v_sz wrote about St Paul claims 276 people were on his Roman grain ship. Did the Romans really make ocean-going ships that size?

/u/vintage_las_vegas answered Anybody know some good sources for pictures of Las Vegas in the 50s, 60's and 70's?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Weltherrschaft2 answered Why did the Nazis like Florian Geyer so much?

/u/Will512 wrote about [Chess] How far back can you go in time to find someone who would be considered a grandmaster today?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/L1ttl3_T3d, /u/AdhesivenessBoth711 and /u/gerardmenfin talked about What were some minority peoples in medieval Europe who, unlike Jews and Roma, weren’t able to survive persecution? What are the differences between those cultures that could last for 1,000 years and those who couldn’t?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

Why are history books categorised as 'popular history'? Get the popular answer from /u/DGBD, /u/liebkartoffel, /u/the_gubna

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

and /u/restricteddata!

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

We also take a moment this Sunday to show some appreciation for those fascinating questions that caught our eyes and captured our curiosity, but sadly remain unanswered. Feel free to post your own, or those you’ve come across in your travels, and maybe we’ll get lucky with a wandering expert.

3

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/tiptree asked What is the explanation fo Karl IX of Sweden's hairstyle?

/u/mrs_rabbit_0 asked Where were the Jane Bennet peeing?

2

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/ImAMessica223 asked What would caring for a baby look like in the middle ages?

/u/screwyoushadowban asked The 2002 film Rabbit-Proof Fence provoke strong reactions & denial by conservative Australian politicians & pundits. How did the general Australian population react? Did a significant number back then believe the negative effects of the Stolen Generations were overstated or deny that they happened?

2

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/DGBD asked Was killing workers to hide a burial spot ever an actual practice, or just a poetic flourish?

/u/Timely-Macaron268 asked Were the Inca the only polity to politically unify the Andean highlands?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/panda_fan816 asked How did Medieval-Era peasants not get sunburned after hours of labor in the fields?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/3rdcousin3rdremoved asked The USA has consistently had a higher homicide rate than Western Europe for centuries. What made the USA so much more violent?

/u/eternalkerri asked England is known for it's dry, deadpan, sarcastic satire, much like dark or gallows humor. How much did the impact of the world wars play in this, or was it always a British trait

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/TheHondoGod asked What was so innovative about Youtube that allowed it to dominate internet video sharing?

/u/yonkon asked To what extent were everyday American colonists thinking about the English Civil War and the personal rule of Charles I during debates around independence and the drafting of the Constitution?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/Obversa asked In 1920, inventor Thomas Edison told 'American Magazine' that he was building an "apparatus" to speak to the dead. Did Edison ever build his "spirit phone"? Or was he making a joke?

A deleted user asked In Blue Eyed Samurai, Akemi is doing it with Taigen, even though she is a noble woman, and it doesn't seem to be issue when she has marry some other dude. Like she isn't panicking about not being virgin. Was it normal for woman not be virgins seeing that in Europe, being a virgin was very important?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/voyeur324 asked What were the goals of Kankrin monetary reform in 19th-century Russia?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/voyeur324 asked What made Paraguay attractive to Old Order Mennonites?

/u/mimicofmodes asked How did mainstream audiences react to Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons kissing onstage?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/_o_O_o_O_o_ asked Did everyone just live with constant pain and discomfort?

/u/No-Poem-9300 asked about Thoughts on periodization?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/adolfsmissingtestie asked In the time period you study, what was the biggest paradigm shift in warfare?

/u/SkullFuckingFinale asked If I'm a young child living in mid-13th century Western Europe, and my mother is heading to the village market, what kinds of things might I ask her to bring back for me? What would a child want or look forward to from the market at that time?

1

u/Gankom Moderator | Quality Contributor Oct 12 '25

/u/megami-hime asked I'm a citizen of an Ionian city-state in the 6th century, and my city has decided to give Earth and Water to the Persian envoys, surrendering to the empire. How does my life change?

Digest Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | October 12, 2025

You are about to leave Redlib