The History Thread!

Because this is the History thread, I am going to put the obligatory JFK post up. He died today in Dallas TX 52 years ago. A flawed man but good president. He could have gotten a lot more done if given the chance.

LBJ was better than Kennedy was ever going to be.

edited 22nd Nov '15 1:41:21 PM by Achaemenid

Gonna have to second that. JFK is one of the more overrated presidents—he wasn't bad, but it was LBJ who was willing to sacrifice his political career for the sake of the Civil Rights.

American Civil War in the news: D. Trump caught making up a civil war battle for a golf course, called out on it, remains defiant. (NYT link.)

When reached for comment, historians everywhere had this reaction.

edited 24th Nov '15 12:18:37 PM by SabresEdge

Would it be possible for someone to create a time machine that can dump its travelers in inopportune locations, namely the bottom of the river in question in the year of the alleged battle?

We can create a time machine that goes foward with the current understanding of physics, but sadly not backwards.

On the plus side, the one that goes foward would allow you to dump the passanger in deep space.

I found this website that features downloadable PD Fs of all sorts of magazines, and it has a massively diverse selection of historical and educational ones that come in all languages and subject matter.

Enjoy.

Betrayals of trust helped the rapid spread of human species around the world: "New research by an archaeologist at the University of York suggests that betrayals of trust were the missing link in understanding the rapid spread of our own species around the world.

Dr Penny Spikins, of the University's Department of Archaeology, says that the speed and character of human dispersals changed significantly around 100,000 years ago.

Before then, movement of archaic humans were slow and largely governed by environmental events due to population increases or ecological changes. Afterwards populations spread with remarkable speed and across major environmental barriers."

So if I'm getting this right, humans decided to spread precisely because Humans Are Bastards.

Early Native Americans Raised Turkeys, But Not to Eat: "There is little doubt that Native Americans at a Utah site appropriately called Turkey Pen Ruins raised turkeys, but new research concludes that they rarely ate them, and instead raised the large birds for their coveted feathers.

The study involved extensive analysis of amino acid signatures resulting from diet that can be detected in human hair. The research, which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, represents one of the first analyses of human hair from the American Southwest."

Hunting for DNA remnants in the sunken country of Doggerland

Sherman's March to the Sea made me wonder.

Would it technically count as the greatest act of destruction ever done in American soil? XD

Depends on what you define as "American", but if we factor in the Indian campaigns, probably not.

Or, from the Civil War, there's the Shenandoah Valley, which was burned out by Sheridan's troops. It took something like ten years for it to regain any form of economic activity beyond subsistence farming.

I must admit that ii never heard of any of those. XP

You haven't even heard of John Denver's song? Are you also saying that you don't know who Sheridan is?

Only Sheridan I've ever heard of.

Not this one?

Forgive me for asking this here, but whats a good suggestion for a memorial to make by clay, because for my Humanities class, I am to do something related to 3D Visual Arts, and I chose sculpting.

Hallow: Hmm tough one. Any other requirements we can narrow it all down with?

1. Easy to replicate.

2. Can fit a 1/4 illustration board.

4x

Nope. But now I do. My knowledge of Vietnam, aside from the common stuff, is just special operations. I like spooky things.

I also completely forgot that yesterday was the date for the beginning of the Winter War. 30th November 1939.

Now it's 5 days till independence day. Will be interesting giving presentation on Monday, when everyone's hung-over.

Hm, do you guys think that Horrible Histories is a good source?

(Hmm, from hindsight I can see how stupid this was.)

edited 1st Dec '15 9:10:43 AM by Victor_Skye

>not using the internet to get .pdfs of actual academic journals and books

Hmm, I'll try that suggestion this time. All this time I've been doing things on impulse. Maybe it's high time I get my act together.

Journals, proper history books, academia articles and essays. Can't go wrong with any (or all) of these.

Proper history books are excellent (the good ones will review the state of historiography as well as the history), and of course, ungated academic articles are to be pounced on and looted before the Guardians Of JSTOR notice you.

If you manage to acquire JSTOR access at any time, that should be your cue to...

...

...appreciate the PDFs and resist the urge to download them and keep them.

bookzz is pretty good. Managed to find something for Teufel on it.

imgur tends to have big posts about getting textbooks for free, google them.

edited 1st Dec '15 2:40:29 PM by Achaemenid