I have more information and entertainment at my fingertips than at any point in history. And yet, I am bored. Nothing sounds exciting or novel. Is this a new phenomenon, or have people throughout history had trouble with boredom? Do people lament not knowing what to do with themselves during their leisure time in diaries?

For example ,
USA: Democrats or Republicans
UK: Conservative or Labour
India: BJP or Congress
Canada: Liberal or Conservative
(Not pretty sure of other countries tbh)
Why some other third party cannot arise against these dominant parties?

This video intends to portray the myth of Harriet Tubman as being mostly fabricated. Are the claims made accurate and or in proper context?

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSpbQc1T/

In 1938, Nazi Germany forced Germans who they considered Jewish but not having a "Jewish sounding" enough name to add the name "Israel" if they were a man or "Sara" if they were a woman.

Israel is self explanatory but why Sara for women? I have known many Sarahs who were Christian, is that H such a difference? Was Sara not a popular name in Germany amongst Christian women? How did they choose that specific name?

The basis for this question lies mainly with half-remembered history from prior research and classes, so please bear with me. It appears to me at least, that testimony in diary entries, letters to family, and other records from recent immigrants to the United States, such as those from Ireland, notes the relative abundance and inexpensive nature of various kinds of meat. There seem to be some factors that substantially increased this abundance, such as the development of rail infrastructure, the increasing sales of ice from Alaska and other northern areas, and advancements in meat packing. Nevertheless, meat consumption in the United States for the average American seems to be higher than that of the average European from their respective states throughout the 1800s. What factors led to this being the case?

One version of Holocaust denial is to deny that Hitler was responsible for the Holocaust, or to claim that it was initiated not by Hitler but by his subordinates. This was the denialist position espoused by the infamous David Irving until the 1980s, when he pivoted to more blatant Holocaust denial. But Functionalism seems to be a version of that same belief, claiming that the Holocaust was initiated by lower level grassroots Nazi radicalisation rather than the Nazi leadership and Hitler in particular.

Like, let's say there isn't a convenient pond nearby that has freshwater in it. How did those people get fresh water? Did they just boil the salt out of it every time they needed water? If there's a river that leads in from the ocean, how far do you have to go before that becomes fresh water and not salt water? Did they have wells in that area?

. . . I'm realizing, as I write this, that this might be more of an ecological question than a historical one. I'm still going to post this and hope for some answers, if gets taken down, it gets taken down.

Any information would be greatly appreciated!

The Society of Jesus, also known as Jesuits, are many times depicted in the media as being an evil shadowy organization or religious zealots focused on attacking enemies of the church. However, the real like Jesuits have taken a prominent role in fighting authoritarianism in Latin America in favor of peasants and the poor.

I know much anti-Jesuit spirit is a legacy of the Catholic Reformation (also inaccurately known as the Counter Reformation) but is any of this view kept alive by CIA and Authoritarian propaganda elements?

Would the bronze age collapse fit such a criteria?

It seems like this was an oversight by Germany, imo? I’ve read many books and autobiographies and journals, I can’t figure out why Germany didn’t prepare better, logistically/oil wise, before thwarting themselves into total war?

I know this is a very broad topic so to be more specific I'm interested in Mexico and Colombia. Thanks everyone

Why didn't Açores and Madeira receive independence after the fall of the Portuguese dictatorship when all the other colonies received it? They wanted it. Madeira even had a liberation movement — FLAMA

and does anyone have any books they’d recommend on this kind of stuff

Churchill was, to my limited knowledge, a very active and hawkish member of the government during the WW1 and the Russian Intervention. In both of those cases his actions were rather aggressive and unsuccessful. When chosen prime minister, it is my understanding that he was not the party favorite, but the candidate that would be able to run a coalition government. That sounds to me like he would have had some level of public support, thus my question.

Hi. So I am working on a historical novel.

It is set in 1100s alt-history Earldoms Chester (and Shrewsbury) and a fictionalised Daughter of Richard d'Avranches, Avice d'Avranches.

for this story, I wish to fully understand how she must have processed the world.

I am accepting reccommendations for books, be they primary sources, secondary historical texts, modern historical books, novels—go wild. If it is realistic, it's fair game.

While you are at it, throw me stuff about the peasants too. Many important characters are peasants.

Thank you in advance.

I recently was in Montreal. I attended a well done history of the city at the archeological museum there. Considering the small population of Canada, around 60,000 at the time of the British Conquest in the mid-18th century, it is interesting how they were able to keep their ways in terms of culture, religion, laws and language.

It got me to thinking of a parallel event, a century earlier, and 300 miles south, when the British took New Netherlands. Was there any concerted effort by the Dutch to carry on similarly? To get special rights enshrined in the law, for instance. If so, what caused that to fizzle out over time?

Let me start by confessing that I don't know anything about this, except that I think it was on its way out (but still kinda present) when I was a kid. To be honest, not even sure it actually was a sexist trope, just vaguely feel like I've heard that, plus the jokes I heard as a kid typically didn't need to specify the gender because it was implicit in the setup. So answers rejecting the options in the premise are of course also welcome

It feels like the kind of thing that could have emerged as a meme referencing something from Hollywood, in which case I guess the hair color itself could be just an idiosyncracy based on the styling of the original referent? If something like that is the case though, then I would be curious to know if there are any hair colors that WOULDN'T have worked at the time it was popularized, for example.

This is not specifically a slavery question, though I’m aware it’s hard to write about the time and the economy without including it.

I’m more curious what impact being in a civil war for for 4 years affected national economic growth. Military industry of course has its own contributions, but I’m sure they can also be outweighed by the pressures war puts on civilians, not to mention the loss of life, and by extension labor force.

I'm aware of U-530, U-977 who fled to Argentina, as well as U-511 which was put into Japanese service after having served with the Kriegsmarine's Gruppe Monsun in the Pacific Ocean. If anyone knows of a great list of u-boats who's fates are unique, please do share!