Thinking of people like Julia Domna and Julia Maesa. Maybe there isn't a trend at all but it seems notable.

As the title says. I was just wondering, as I've been reading about strikes and the rise of unions in the late 19th century for one of my classes. I don't have the best knowledge of the Medieval era nor much of the Early Modern Era, so I was just wondering if anything close to the idea of labor unions existed in feudal and pre-capitalist societies.

The cultural exchange of Indians and the Empire has been studied at length. But I was particularly interested in the fact that so many Indians actually went abroad to study as Barristers and then return to their country. People like Nehru, Gandhi, Ambedkar were all trained as barristers. Is there any relation to these people studying law abroad and coming back and joining the freedom movement?

I'm looking into how pastors navigated the Great Depression, primarily regarding Baptist (focusing on the SBC) and Pentecostal/Charismatic denominations.

I'm having difficulty finding resources, so I thought I would see if I could get some help with this. I'm looking more at a level of pastor to congregation rather than amongst leadership.

What I'm primarily looking for is:

What rhetoric was used to explain the Great Depression to the congregations?

How did the Great Depression affect relations between White and Nonwhite churches? I did find some, especially as to why the Assemblies of God broke off, but more examples is better.

Thank you for any assistance.

Hi, I've been doing some reading on this recently and I'm interested in the origins of this group. The short summary that I've seen so far is that there has always been separatist sentiment in Xinjiang/East Turkestan, but I can't really find any information about why this specific group popped up in the 90s.

My instincts go to the training of the Mujahideen during Operation Cyclone and the general Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. Is there any connection between these events and the foundations of the party? All I can find is that they were "influenced" by this, but I'm not sure if this was direct or just inspiration. Were there any key domestic policies in China in the 80s and 90s that led to this?

I could think of several where they had a negative change of heart, like getting on board with something oppressive, but has there ever been an example of someone with political power who had a positive change of heart where they went against a regime/system that harmed others/was oppressive that they had previously supported?

I am looking for a primary source (ideally in English) from a Russian noble or serf owner(?) attacking the emancipation of the serfs, either from just prior to the emancipation or the few decades after.

I am several weeks behind on this college assignment. If anyone can lend a hand, it would be appreciated. Everything I can find is in Russian and I cannot read it.

So I have heard about medieval christian royal families claiming a descendance from figures of classical myth, especially Troy, which the roman nobility of the Republic engaged in too, if I am not mistaken. This was probably done to imbue your own rulership with some special significance or legitimacy.

So did anyone ever claim that a biblical figure was the ancestor of their line? And if not, was there a reason for this? Jesus and Mary are from a modern perspective obvious no-gos, but there are plenty of other people in the NT (or even OT) where it would seem "fine" to claim a descendance.

my brain struggles to create connections within history quickly, which can cause info to become muddled and i lose it.

is there a app/website (such as Brillaint, which is used for math stuff) to help me with this skill?

As I understand it, John Brown committed the Pottawatomie massacre in 1856 in response to the sack of Lawrence, KS by pro-slavery forces. Given the fever-pitch of tensions at that time and in that place, I would assume that local (pro-slavery) authorities were intent on finding the perpetrator(s) of the massacre and bringing them to justice. However, I don't know what kind of investigational capacity was available, what resources were actually brought to bare, and if there were an investigation, what the result was.

My question is what kind of investigational capacity was available in that time and place, what resources were actually brought to bear, and if there were an investigation, what the result was.

as a Jewish citizen? Then as just a German citizen? What was the purpose for forbidding travel? What led up to a shutdown of escape? Thank you for your response.

This is a real question haha. I've wondered about this since I watched 1917, like 6 years ago, where one of the main characters jokes about masterbating.

These quotes are said and written by pro-abolitionist and pro-civil rights people.

a lot of the sources i looked at had several different weapons but they vary

I'm reading Alan Knight's book on the Mexican Revolution and it seemed that Spaniards were especially targeted for reprisals while other groups, notably Americans, were more likely than not to escape reprisals. I was wondering why this was.

Whenever I read about history it always seems Europe is at war or tensions are high and there is about to be war. Is it true that Europe has the most wars? And if so, why? Is it because there's a lot of countries or ethnic groups

What the subject is…

I came across this article https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002107670/historian-uncovers-the-racist-roots-of-the-2nd-amendment?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1qBwFtv0tGvvWKbEpThlejNh7Kr0_XUJADzbDKqQtUCKXT4gGMWTIK_ww_aem_IxsVTfPdAPLvB6tLVFGu9w

and I had a hard time drawing the same conclusions as the author. Has anyone here conducted research on this topic?

There is a recent book by Josephine Quinn titled How the World Made the West, whose stated aim is to challenge "civilizational thinking". In it, she says the following:

I will argue here that there has never been a single, pure Western or European culture. What are called Western values - freedom, rationality, justice, and tolerance - are not only or originally western, and the West itself is in large part a product of long-standing links with a much larger network of societies, to south and north as well as east.

Back in 2023 another book was released by Naoíse Mac Sweeney, titled The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives. Part of Sweeney's goal is to dismantle what she called the "grand narrative of Western civilization”.

These are not new opinions. For the past few years I've seen various articles similarly criticizing the concept of "Western civilization".

Is this a mainstream view in academia?

Hi guys, I was recently reading about encounters between Norse peoples and indigenous Americans during Leif Erikson's initial voyage to Vinland and subsequent attempts to further explore Vinland by other Norse peoples (e.g. Thorfinn Karlsefni). This led me to wonder if this encounter with non-indigenous peoples led the indigenous Americans to form some sort of conception of the world beyond their own; and, connected to this, if indeed the indigenous Americans already had some set of beliefs about what existed beyond their world, and how their encounter(s) with the Norsemen affected these beliefs? I find this especially interesting considering that, to my knowledge, indigenous Americans weren't a nautical people who explored the seas much, and so this also led me to wonder what sorts of beliefs they may have had about the open ocean? I'm not particularly well read in the historiography of either Viking history or pre-Colombian American history, so any insight would be appreciated!