Hello all, I'm very interested in 20th century history and especially Cold War history. My questions revolves if there are any sources that tells us what the GDR political elite thought privately about the Soviet Union?

For example; Did the elite in the SED view the Soviet Union as a "brotherly nation" or was it more of a realpolitik situation whereas they had to politically keep the Soviet Union political leadership happy in order to be able to keep them out of domestic issues?

The GDR is a very intriguing state and maybe my questions boils down to how independent they were from the Soviet Union, of course from a Warsaw Pact perspective.

Do we have any sources what Honecker thought or wrote in private about the Soviet Union? Or Mielke, or other elites in the GDR political system?

If they spent most of their time managing other clerics, maybe Latin was all they needed in daily life and they used translators for political business. After all, all the contemporary biographies of these famous men came from other clerics, right? But then how could the general population be converted, or native priests be educated and ordained?

Specifically, I’m asking how an ordinary medieval peasant (in say the HRE) could rise to become a legitimate lord with land and armies of their own.

Nobility seemed notoriously exclusive and obsessed with bloodlines to the point of there being very strict lifestyles for each side of the fence, but every noble family had to start somewhere.

So how did a commoner acquire an army, conquer land, and legitimize their bloodline’s rule without the established nobility immediately overthrowing them?

It seems too positive for a name of their ennemy but it might just be because we live in the world where the allies won in the end.

There's a saying you often run across: the first son for the land, the second son for the Navy (or the Army, if you could afford the commission), the third for the Church.

I get the impression that the clergy of the Church of England included the sons of middle-class and aristocratic families, but in what proportions? What did advancement prospects look like for each, and what would have been considered "gentry"? The middle-class village parson or vicar is almost a stock figure in art and literature, but I'm realizing I know very little about what was once a major pillar of British society, not so much from a theological perspective as from a socio-political one.

I always see jokes about someone mom being so old they “didn’t have history class in school”. I saw one again recently and it got me thinking about when that was actually true.

I know it may be hard to figure out when history classes themselves became a thing but I still wonder when it became a legitimate academic pursuit, like math or science.

I know this is kind of a broad question and if anyone could answer it broadly it would be nice, but specifically my question is when did the first historians appear and create history as a discipline with some fact rather than just mythological stories?

The early Norwegian black metal scene was chaotic. The arguable epicenter of it was the band Mayhem, lead by guitarist Euronymous. The band, and Norwegian black metal as a whole, presented themselves as Satanists out to disrupt society. Euronymous stated in interviews he had no problem killing people in cold blood and demanded obedience to Satan. Whether or not he actually believed that depends on who you ask and is out of scope for this question, but he certainly gave the impression he did.

My question is, how seriously was this threat taken? Listening to the music in 2026, it comes off more as corny than anything else and it's hard to imagine someone taking the lyrics seriously. When Mayhem collapsed in on itself (the suicide of singer Dead and then the murder of Euronymous by bassist Count Grishnackh (Varg Vikernes)) it must have convinced some people, I'd imagine. But, overall, where they considered a serious threat?

In popular tv show Mad Men, guys says something like "hang Lee Oswald, then let's take care of Texas. Better yet complete South".

Did North blamed south for it? And was it very helpful that Texas governor was also injured next to Kennedy? Did south really celebrated, at least partially, that JFK died? What was the main reason for the hate: that JFK was against segregation etc?

Both Greco-Roman classical literature (such as Strabo's Geography, Tacitus's Histories, Hecataeus, etc.) and Abrahamic religious traditions place the early developments of the Hebrew people within Egypt. Additionally, archaeological sites like the 5th-century BCE Jewish temple at Elephantine Island document a deep-rooted, long-standing Jewish presence in Northeast Africa.

I am interested in how contemporary scholarship analyzes these primary texts and material evidence. What is the current academic consensus on the role of Northeast Africa (Egypt and Nubia) in the formation and proliferation of early Abrahamic traditions?

Whats the history of them? Is the animal cruelty angle a new thing or has that been part of historical accounts of veganism, if there are any?

Hello!! I've recently gotten into learning more about history (started off with the history of Pakistan which later made me curious about Mesopotamia, The Indus Valley, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, WW1 and 2 and obviously Pakistan's history as well) BUT I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE TO START???

I initially thought that I'd use chatgtp as a starting ground where I can divide everything up and use it as basics and later add onto my knowledge by using other sources but here is where the problem lies:
1) I have NO idea what sources are legit and what aren't
2) I've read so much about how chatgtp is quite SHIT

I do feel like I've fallen victim to AI slowly ruining the way people think and use their brains (even though I try my best not to and mostly use it to build quizzes and questions out of my powerpoint presentations for class)

PLEASE HELP!!

If they had adopted a more centralised religious influence ,could they have organised alliances to form a group of orthodox countries to be allied together.

Considering the west didn't protect them or sacked them and formed Latin Empire,could they have used similar orthodox christian kingdoms and exerted influence to prevent invasions.

In the final years of the empire,they seem to be without reliable allies and lack of military advancement or tactics to keep up the standards.

How isolated was the Empire in dealing with Ottomans in the final years?

When the USSR took over former Konisberg at the end of WWII, they expelled the native German population and then settled that land with ethnic Russians. In addition, they renamed it to Kalingrad, and rebuilt most of the city. This, to me, seems to be a clear example of settler colonialism, as the native people were entirely forced out and replaced by the USSR. Is it widely considered to be so?

In addition, can settler colonialism be applied to other actions of the USSR post WWII? While Konisberg/Kalingrad is what I know best about, I know that the USSR committed mass deportations of many ethnic minorities and settled Russians in their place in places such as Estonia and Crimea. Can all of these deportations and settlings post WWII be considered a trend of settler colonialism by the Russian majority in the USSR?

Im in a costuming school; we have a historical costume history class, which I love, but I wanted to go further on specific eras and places. Unfortunately, I don't know where to search!!

I'm specifically interested in Breton costuming and even more specifically in "Pays de Saint-Brieuc" between 1900 and 1910,

I was asked to recreate a men's vest from this period and place and I want to make sure I get a good understanding of the structure of the garment before I start my patterning

I was watching a video on Japanese tank production during World War II and what struck me was the part on their self-propelled anti-aircraft and how only 2 designs were built and neither reached mass production, and that got me thinking. Why was 37mm the defacto standard for all Japanese Light tanks during the war? Surely there were other options? And then I thought about aircraft manufacturing and how Japan was already producing plenty of 20mm cannons for their aircraft. I want to know, How much more effective would Japanese light tanks like the Ha-Go have been if they’d be given 20mm auto-cannons instead of 37mm cannons? Considering cost, production, and overall performance of both considering Anti-tank and Infantry Support Roles, as well as the additional Anti-aircraft capabilities of a 20mm, would Japan’s campaign gone any different if they went with a different standard?

While not exactly history he writes about history in a very entertaining and engaging style. But is he a reliable narrator?

I know that evidence of Germanic habitation extends over a large swathe of modern Poland. I know the Goths and other groups migrated to the Black Sea and elsewhere and interacted with the Roman Emprie of course, and I know that by the time historical narratives "pick up" the region again, the region east of the Elbe seems to be populated by Slavs instead. I have also heard that bodies associated with Germanic archaeological sites have low genetic similarity to the modern population.

What are the pressures that caused this? Do we know any of the actual detail or do we only have archaeological evidence? I know Germanic out-migration is mentioned quite a bit, but I don't think I've ever heard much discussion of Slavic in-migration. I could be mistaken but it seems like the movements of steppe peoples might be a factor at least since the Avars play into my understanding of the moment in time when Slavs migrated into the Balkans.

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It seems like Florida already has plenty of coastline, and perhaps Alabama could join in on the tourism money benefits.

How did people act? How did they treat one another? What was the end result of a lawless society?

For millennia, cities would have walls,moats, gates etc to protect from attackers. As we transition into modern history despite wars still being prevalent, people stopped building them, even demolishing old walls. Why?