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11 votes
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Dark hair was common among Vikings – research reveals they were a genetically diverse group and not purely Scandinavian
14 votes -
Being Finnish: A Guide For Soviet Spies – An archived booklet reveals how communist spooks were instructed to blend in with Finnish locals
11 votes -
When fascism was American; Using religion, anticommunism and xenophobia, "Father" Charles Coughlin popularized fascism in 1930s America, not too unlike Donald Trump today
8 votes -
Mercenary black riders and the evolution of cavalry warfare in the 16th century
4 votes -
Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
8 votes -
Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: The race riot of one night in June 1943
15 votes -
The (literally) unbelievable story of the original fake news network
11 votes -
Annotated digital archive of historic books
6 votes -
Postcards from St Kilda arrive ten years later after washing up in Norway – archaeologist Ian McHardy built a waterproof replica of the mail boats a decade ago
5 votes -
The Sacred Band of Carthage | Units of History
4 votes -
What do you think are the most memorable examples of propaganda?
Can be posters, advertisements, videos/films and maybe national/revolutionary anthems/songs. My favorites so far are: "Is Colorado in america?" (Basically a US flag with various constitutional...
Can be posters, advertisements, videos/films and maybe national/revolutionary anthems/songs.
My favorites so far are:
"Is Colorado in america?" (Basically a US flag with various constitutional rights being
written as violated in the US flag's stripes in Colorado, including the 2nd amendment.)"Daisy" (Lyndon B. Johnson campaign attack ad, implying that if you do not vote for LBJ, we would have nuclear war.)
Honorary mentions for: Wake up, by the Lincoln project, which has a very similar "these are the stakes" tune for 2020. Mourning in America and We will vote are pretty good too.
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Women won the right to vote 100 years ago. Why did they start voting differently from men in 1980?
7 votes -
The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
16 votes -
Celebrations of Progress - A look at some major celebrations of historical achievements, and thoughts about why it seems like nothing similar has happened recently
4 votes -
How Camus and Sartre split up over the question of how to be free
4 votes -
The Balearic Slingers | Units of History
3 votes -
The world of Kaiserreich: Exploring the lore of an alternate WW1
3 votes -
How WW2 made Spain do everything later
4 votes -
The Turkish century; part 2: The journey of the Turkish Republic
4 votes -
How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
2 votes -
In the decades before the American civil war, violence broke out in Congress too
7 votes -
The Persian language and what makes it fascinating
5 votes -
The Bronze Age Collapse (approximately 1200 BCE)
7 votes -
The Numidian Cavalry | Units of History
4 votes -
How the Democratic party went from being the party of slavery and white supremacy to electing Barack Obama
5 votes -
How Southern socialites rewrote civil war history
3 votes -
Researchers say they have found the world's earliest confirmed case of smallpox, revealing the disease was widespread across northern Europe during the Viking age
3 votes -
Hiroshima (1946)
5 votes -
The village that the Luftwaffe bombed by mistake
9 votes -
Was the 2004 US election in Ohio unfairly tipped to Bush?
5 votes -
What made the Viking longship so terrifyingly effective?
7 votes -
Whispers from fallen civilisations
5 votes -
Ask Historians: How did Lincoln's political agenda on slavery change before and during the war?
8 votes -
Ancient Rome was teetering. Then a volcano erupted 6,000 miles away
5 votes -
What were the main issues in US politics from it's founding to when slavery became an important issue/the Civil War and what were the 2 parties of then about?
Admittedly that's 90 years of history but I've always wondered about what was the politics of the US back then, because I've never really known about them. The parts I'm most interested in are:...
Admittedly that's 90 years of history but I've always wondered about what was the politics of the US back then, because I've never really known about them.
The parts I'm most interested in are:
Why did it take until 1832 for the state legislatures to reach a consensus on how to elect people to the electoral college? I know states' rights are a big theme in US politics, but it seems really strange that it would take them 55 years to figure out how to pick the president, even if early on, that role was a lot less powerful.
Why were there so many parties before the US settled on the Democratic and Republican parties (although they have changed plentifully thanks to the US's 2-party political system where everyone needs to bundle up into 2 large coalitions or risk turning the US into a 1-party state.)
Why did they switch so often? From my count there are:
4 main parties being:
The Democratic-Republicans vs the federalists
The Whigs and National Republicans vs the (Jacksonian) Democrats
3 3rd parties being:
The anti-masonic party
The know nothing party/cult according to wiki apparently
The free soil/anti-slavery party
(Also in 1820 there was effectively no election, in 1824, 4 people of the same party all ran for president at once, in 1836 the same thing happened and 4 Whigs ran at once, but with Democratic opposition and 3 actually won votes while one just coasted off south Carolina. Why?)
Why were there so many large parties and what were all these parties about?
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What do you think of alternate history?
I tend to watch AlternateHistoryHub, WhatIfAlthist and occasionally Monsieur Z (but less so since the guy somehow got a far-right audience) so I've always been interested in the idea of alternate...
I tend to watch AlternateHistoryHub, WhatIfAlthist and occasionally Monsieur Z (but less so since the guy somehow got a far-right audience) so I've always been interested in the idea of alternate history.
However, there's more than that. There are books and writers (I.E Harry turtledove), 3 subreddits (r/historywhatif, r/historicalwhatif and r/alternatehistory), many games (HOI I, II, III and IV, civ 1-6, Vicky 1-3, etc), a forum and according to Wikipedia, people have been speculating about history since before the year 0.
So what do you think of it?
7 votes -
Newly released 'Palace letters' reveal Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr sacked the Whitlam government in 1975 without giving advance notice to the Queen
8 votes -
Is the state of West Virginia unconstitutional?
10 votes -
Philosophy without a philosopher in sight: The Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita: ancient Indian texts that challenge Western categories, yet influenced the course of modernity
9 votes -
How to deal with a racist past: A Bristol pub leads the way
5 votes -
Canadian scuba diver in Mexico accidentally discovers vast, prehistoric industrial complex
17 votes -
Ashoka's moral empire
3 votes -
The practical case on why we need the humanities
14 votes -
The Heavenly Court
4 votes -
Hannibal, Rome's greatest enemy (parts 1 - 5) | Second Punic War
7 votes -
When proof is not enough: Throughout history, evidence of racism has failed to effect change
11 votes -
Forgotten for a century, Australia's first sanctioned air mail flight re-enacted at Lismore
4 votes -
Archaeologists in Norway have begun the first excavation of a Viking longship in more than a century
6 votes -
Anne Barton, the great-granddaughter of Australia's first prime minister Sir Edmund Barton, has thrown her support behind a campaign to remove his statue from an Indigenous burial site
7 votes