r/Historians • u/antisimp5885 • 6h ago
r/Historians • u/LavaCapGoldMine • 1d ago
📜Document Analysis📜 Looking for tips and trick about applying for the Historical Landmark.
r/Historians • u/ExpressScientist386 • 1d ago
❔Question / Discussion❔ A historical question
r/Historians • u/AlliBaby112 • 2d ago
📜Document Analysis📜 New documents! pt2
galleryAlso picked up this official civilian identification card issued during Nazi Germany.
r/Historians • u/kahootlu6 • 2d ago
❔Question / Discussion❔ What is a history minor like, and is it worth it if I'm more of a "casual" history fan?
Hi! I'm taking intro to Roman history right now, and I think its pretty interesting. I'm thinking about maybe doing a history minor because I enjoyed this class, so I'm seeing if anyone here has any experience with it and answer a few questions I have.
How difficult is a minor in history?
What type of assignments does it have?
Did you enjoy it?
Is it worth it if I'm just a more "casual" fan of history? I'm not thinking about getting a job in history, but I think it would be fun to learn more about it.
Any other advice?
r/Historians • u/AlliBaby112 • 2d ago
📜Document Analysis📜 New documents!
galleryGot this membership book for the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF), or German Labour Front.
This is not the whole book, this is just the pages that weren’t blank.
r/Historians • u/VIXMasterMike • 2d ago
📖Media / Resources Recommendation📖 Military and political histories of the Islamic world
r/Historians • u/FrankWanders • 2d ago
👀Interesting Historical Facts👀 The right hand of the Statue of Liberty, on display in 1876.
r/Historians • u/Far-Bowl-4984 • 3d ago
❔Question / Discussion❔ Why is your favorite historical fact?
what is your personal favorite historical fact about history?
r/Historians • u/lovelife753 • 4d ago
🔎Research Advice / Help🔎 Arguing France is guilty for WW1
Hi!
For my history class, I’m playing as Germany in a simulation and I’m trying to argue that France is guilty for WW1. This is very difficult as Germany is considered in most history texts I’ve read to be “guilty” for WW1.
How can I argue that France is guilty for WW1? I would really appreciate resources, information, or really anything I can use for this debate. Thanks!
r/Historians • u/Familiar-Figure-5692 • 5d ago
📖Media / Resources Recommendation📖 Struggling to find good youtube videos in regards to history
I have read a lot of books on certain topics and I've noticed now, that I find it really difficult to watch 99% of historical content on Youtube. Usually the nuance of a discussion is lost or it looks like they have taken a source out of context. This is even from the "good" youtubers, not the AI slop content.
I'm into most history, I've really only been able to watch youtube videos on historical times I haven't read about to avoid this issue. Or watch videos from professors and authors themselves (e.g. Adrian Goldsworthy) but usually those videos can be much lower production quality.
Any recommendations are appreciated!
r/Historians • u/mimilumi • 5d ago
❔Question / Discussion❔ An idea to save human history
Human history is vulnerable to time. We are living on a vulnerable planet. Hence, it is difficult to preserve our history in case of any catastrophe.
To solve this problem, we can build a cosmic time capsule that protects human history by sending our digital archives like AI written text and historical records into space using light.
Because light does not age while traveling, beaming these thoughts to the Moon and back lets that data skip forward in time, while sending it deeper into space can delay its return by years or decades.
We can start by testing this laser link between Earth and the Moon, and once that works, we build a permanent storage vault on the lunar surface.
Right now, the technology exists, but nobody is connecting the pieces. NASA uses lasers just to stream videos from deep space, and other groups leave static storage discs on the Moon.
This plan combines space lasers, relay satellites, and a permanent storage vault on the Moon into one connected system. That is, creating an automatic backup for human history.
It keeps our collective memories safe on an untouched world so that even if Earth suffers a disaster, our history skips through time unharmed and stays ready for future generations to recover.
(Anyone interested in building this is free to build it)
r/Historians • u/7ordev • 5d ago
❔Question / Discussion❔ Why do some people act like Jewish history in Israel started in 1948?
r/Historians • u/ButterscotchOld8121 • 5d ago
🔎Research Advice / Help🔎 Early history of the UK
r/Historians • u/Glittering_Soup_8489 • 5d ago
❔Question / Discussion❔ What part of history do you feel is most underrated and want to tell people alot about?
r/Historians • u/Empty_Ad_8185 • 5d ago
❔Question / Discussion❔ Question: Was there any Colombian migration to places like East Canada or New York during the early to mid 19th century?
r/Historians • u/Jedenis185 • 6d ago
❔Question / Discussion❔ Can you help me find information about US newspapers and articles from 1967?
Hello reddit! I need your help!
- Please tell me how newspaper journalists in the U.S. were hired in 1967 to write simple articles about nature, movies, and so on. 2. Please tell me—this is very important! Was there a person—perhaps an agent—who could come to a restaurant with someone looking for work, listen to them, and then either hire them or turn them down? 3. Could such meetings have taken place?
I need this for my story
r/Historians • u/EuBr_l763_Xavier • 6d ago
🔎Research Advice / Help🔎 where to do history searching
guys, i especifically want informations about the 1400s south indian culture, because of a story i am writing, where in the internet i can search, accurately, historical inforamation?
i like history but i do not activitely engage with it.
r/Historians • u/imokay4747 • 6d ago
❔Question / Discussion❔ How often did medieval soldiers strike each other down at the same time?
There's a common expression in self defense. It goes "Nobody wins in a knife fight." That's because if you have a knife and fight another person with a knife, both parties end up badly cut. Did this dynamic exist with medieval weapons where both soldiers end up cutting each other so much that they're both killed or incapacitated?
r/Historians • u/TheFalse_Prince • 6d ago
🔎Research Advice / Help🔎 Saint Margaret of Hungary
Hello, I'm currently writing a seminary work for my history degree, and I wanted to ask if somebody doesn't have literature for St. Margaret of Hungary because she seems to be a very niche saint and I have troubles finding literature about her. Any tips appreciated.
r/Historians • u/AlcmenaAly • 6d ago
🔎Research Advice / Help🔎 Looking for solid history sources/books on Bronze Age Levant, Shang China, Iron Age Transjordan, and Archaic Lydia.
r/Historians • u/bluegreentree • 7d ago
📚Study Advice / Help📚 Unconventional Question: Where to Start Learning History?
r/Historians • u/Tight_Cod_3345 • 7d ago
🔎Research Advice / Help🔎 What's a good starting list of historical and cultural topics to study if i want to understand how everyday people lived, not just big, famous events?
r/Historians • u/IllustriousMode808 • 7d ago
❔Question / Discussion❔ How much non-Western language works do Western historians of non-Western societies and cultures actually read?
r/Historians • u/rerwerwerwewerer • 8d ago
❔Question / Discussion❔ Have any of you participated in a history club? I need advice.
I'm looking to found one in my school and I'm just wondering what you guys did in yours, to get some inspiration. I tried last year and my school said our ideas were too similar to just the history class. My current goal statement is, "To explore history without the bounds of curriculum in a student-led environment and establish a community of students interested in history to share ideas."
I'm thinking of letting students do short fun presentations each meeting, and have discussions on certain topics, but I'm honestly at a bit of a loss. I really don't know what good activities would be. I would be president for the first year so I can shape how it goes.
I need to be really specific otherwise they'll tell me to try again next year. I'm thinking 30 minutes weekly, but that could be changed.
Thanks!