I don't know the study says the tibetan people came from the east. What area is currently east of tibet? yeah, china

Very fascinating stuff. I'll read up more on that. Thanks!

That's a great, informative answer. I appreciate the links, too. Thank you!

Not a book but have you listened to the Age of Napoleon podcast?

haha, I also grew up on Spring Lane! (Bottom half), but also don't live in Olney anymore.

Is there any historical/architectural connection whatsoever between Hotel New Nederland (demolished 1927) and the Plaza Hotel, in NYC? I'm uneducated on the topic, and this is just a personal observation, but I think there is a visual resemblance between the two.

What were some key events from the Kosovo war (1998-1999)?

Wanting to share passion of mine with my classmates through a presentation, I'm looking for some key, culturally rooted or surprising events from the conflict.

Not necessarily looking for the ones that get most of the international attention (e.g. Račak massacre, NATO's bombing campaign - they'll be included as well and you could point them out as well) but I was curious if there were more cases like the take down of the one NATO's F-117 (and I bet there have been since it's a modern Balkan conflict).

All sorts of info welcome!

Was it fairly common to have a female master teaching either naginatajutsu (naginata polearm) or kyudo/kyujutsu (bow) to fellow women during the Meiji era and pre-WWII? Or did men teach this to women back then too, in a dojo setting? Or did only their husbands/father teach them?

I've noticed a common trend that these arts tend to have mostly women practitioners nowadays, but how about as far back as over a century ago?

Did colleges always require classes unrelated to your degree?

I have a pretty major fascination with Napoleon. What are some of y’all’s recommendations? Thanks.

Finished one book I started last week and really enjoyed plus two shorter books that were not as good. All reviews copied and pasted

Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild

>4.75/5

>Not much to say about. Very well written. Half about the various Americans involved in Spanish Civil War (mainly the volunteers in the Lincoln Battalion and various journalists) and half general introduction to the war. By the topic of the book it has to be mainly focused on the pro-Republic Americans in Spain but there is also quite a bit on Texaco oil company providing huge aid to the Nationalists. (oil for the Nazi and Italian provided trucks and planes, intelligence on where the oil tankers headed for the Republic would be for submarines). Additionally there is some stuff about the British volunteers as well, mainly Orwell on the Republic's side and a guy called Peter Kemp who volunteered for the Nationalists.

>It would be a good first book on the subject I think and overall I highly recommend it.

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon

>3/5

>Each chapter covers killing in a different context, political killing, killing within the family, execution etc. My favourite chapters were on 'murder in the slave state' which covered killing of slaves and by slaves and the chapter on gladiators. The information is good and there is a lot of insight into the Roman world view. The book is pretty easy to get into and doesn't need any prior knowledge of the Romans.

>The main reason I am only giving it 3/5 stars is the tone and writing style. There are a lot of jokes, modern culture references like TV shows and movies, joking about modern British politics (from a leftwing perspective) and generally just trying to be funny. Additionally there is a lot of swearing - things like "stabbing the shit out of each other", "massive fuck off monuments" and insulting various people (who probably deserve it) like describing the emperor Domitian as a dickhead. Some people might like that style of writing but personally it didn't appeal to me. The information in the book was good but it could've been a lot shorter without the comedy.

>Would I recommend it? Only if you like the sort of writing I described.

Just finished up War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan

>3.5/5 rounding down for goodreads.

>Each chapter covers a different topic of military history such as reasons for war, the impact of war on society, how civilians are affected, attempts to regulate war (one of the better chapters imo) etc. The writing is clear and accessible but with a tendency towards stating things that are sort of obvious. There isn't any great analysis and the book hasn't really changed my views much. As an introduction to various military related topics it is fine but if you've already read a bit on the topic you're not going to get much new out of this. Considering I really liked MacMillan's 'War That Ended Peace' and 'Paris 1919' books this one is a bit disappointing.

I'm reading Latin American Indigenous Violence and Ritual Warfare right now. It's edited by Ruben Mendoza and Richard Chacon. I've only got a couple chapters left, but so far the best chapter has been on how difficult it is to get any good information about actual sacrificial practices of the groups in the central Mexico valley. There's another good chapter on Mayan warfare and how study of the subject is limited by a lack of knowledge of the political conditions in southern Mexico/Central America.

A lot of the book is dedicated to South American groups and there's a chapter on ritual fighting in Take The Square events at the end of June. The authors did a good job of tying the ritual back to pre-Columbian rituals. But most of the South American chapters are about tribal raiding which I don't find super interesting.

Overall, I'd say maybe check it out if its handy if you're really interested in this stuff, otherwise, maybe just read chapters on specific groups you're interested in.

To mark the 20th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, I have several recommendations.

1. Slate Slow Burn podcast on Iraq. This is a decent, nuanced history on the road to the invasion, more than I expected from Slate, honestly. Unfortunately, the last two episodes are behind a paywall so this will be a partial recommendation.

2. The Regime Change Consensus by Joseph Stieb: Think of this as a more academic version of the Slate podcast, specifically episodes four and five which dealt with liberal support for the invasion. This book places the Iraq War in the context of the 1990s in the wake of the Gulf War and the Soviet collapse, showing that the political conditions for regime change were set well before 9/11.

3. A Prisoner in His Palace by Will Bardenwerper: I haven’t started this one yet but it tells the story of the surprisingly intimate relationship between Saddam Hussein and his American jailers in the months leading up to his execution. The author was on NPR a few years ago talking about it.

While fiction, Jack London had some decent books that took place during the Yukon rush, which he was a part of IIRC, and my Jr High history class read them for atmosphere. They are quick reads and I think in the public domain now.

I’m 15 pages away from finishing A TrampAcross the Continent by Charles F. Lummis.

It’s a fun little first hand account of a man walking across the closing frontier from Cincinnati to LA via Denver Albuquerque and across the Grand Canyon.

It’s very entertaining and interesting to see how a lot of places were quickly left behind after the frontier had passed them over.

And now China is actively trying to erase that

I feel like there are so many shows out right now about Mormon cults in Utah - under the banner of Heaven, keep sweet and obey, etc. Not to mention the prop 8 doc a few years ago along with big love and sister wives.

This is definitely not a media thing - https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-06-14/does-l-a-have-an-addiction-to-cults-and-cultists-sure-seems-like-it

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Tattooing is not difficult, you can do it with a needle and a pen. You simply need ink, and something sharp to drive it under the skin. Maori use a chisel tattooing technique, "hammering" an ink chisel into the skin. See video here: https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/41239/chisel-tattooing

The modern tattoo gun does this automatically by driving the needle in and out of the skin, so no need to hammer it down, but it's still going in and out of the dermal layer.

As for ink, soot was very common and easy to make.

Remarkably the Project cost only nine days' worth of Federal spending of the period, such was the scale of the country's wartime mobilisation. In the event, the bomb wasn't needed against Germany, but could the US take the risk of foregoing its development?

Would US jets have changed the outcome? Germany's various projects didn't, and even with a major US development effort it seems unlikely that successful fighters would have entered service in large numbers before aerial superiority was achieved anyway.

The controversy surrounding the bomb's eventual use may make us question the desirability of its development, but the outcome wasn't so clear in 1942 or 1943 when a major diversion of effort into other weapons would have to have been initiated. But it's an interesting question. Might other avenues have been more useful? That inter-Allied bugbear of landing-craft springs to mind.

How did ancient cultures get tattoos? They didn’t have modern technology which we have now, also what did they use in the dye?

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What happened to British people who were on mainland Europe at the time of WW2?

specifically, I'm looking for accounts of British people in Nazi occupied france whilst the war was raging, or at the very least, around the time of the fall of France.

I'm sadly the last person to ask about careers! My guess though is that if you're undecided geography might offer better prospects as being more visibly relevant to international relations and business (history is of course also valuable for both, but I'm not sure it's widely perceived as such) - and of course an environmental component would be useful in our times. An environmental, economic & human geography mix incorporating change through time might be a way to go while you weigh up specialisation options.

You might be better off taking that query up with a geography subreddit or board (or some academics if you can get your hands on them), unless there are any hereabouts with experience of both fields. The whole world of work is a formidable challenge, and who knows where it's headed? In your favour at least the baby-boom intake is retiring from the scene and AI isn't yet smart enough to replace them. Good luck in whatever you choose.