Am reading Lindholm, Nya Sveriges Historia (History of New Sweden) and there is a description (p. 67) of two objects in a Swedish museum, a war club and a "wolf skin war bonnet". On the web pages of the museum, I find two objects from North America. The club fits the description very well, but t...

I recently came across the Kalash people of Pakistan and Afghanistan (thanks to this amazing music actually, for anyone interested). As far as I can tell, studies seem to suggest the Kalash are indigenous to the areas they migrated to in those respective countries, from Central Asia. I then looke...

I just watched a documentary (I think it was called "We Were There" or "I Was There") featuring interviews of US soldiers that were Jewish and had helped liberate Nazi concentration camps. I was struck with how many of them mentioned they had no clue the Nazis were burning, gassing, torturing, a...

I have been asked on several occasions how could Germany afford to start such a big war as WWII. Of course, they mean multiple aspects such money and other actors (countries) allowing it. Also, Germany was not alone. However, this would take books to answer, so I will stick to financial dimension...

Explain the role of provincial associations in providing political consciousness?

Marx seemed to favor imperialism. Obviously there is no way to spread communism without it. And Upton Sinclair was a white supremacist. The remaining marxists either didnt discuss it or had the same opinion. Why was lenin different?

The Constitution says: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years. Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into thr...

In Dan Jones' 'The Templars', a paragraph details in broad terms how the Templar Order assisted the reigning Pope, Gregorius IX, with his debt collection over numerous Catholic realms. This is the provided description: In 1240, Pope Gregory IX employed a particularly complex version of this...

Why were Turkey allowed to keep Constantinople after WW1? Greece was on the winning side, weren't they? Wouldn't it have made sense for the European great powers to support a Greek demand on Constantinople? After all, the Greeks are European, and Christian, and the European culture and civilisati...

The meaning of history is clear. That which is in the past. Is the cultural use of the word ‘history’ a corrupted ‘yesterday/gisteren/gestern’ descriptive for ‘the day before the stars (compare Dutch Gesternte Dag (stars day)) Or is it a cognate of ‘yesterday’? And how does the word ‘future’ re...