As a student of the 21st century, I've learned that freedom and democracy won both World Wars. And yet, it would seem, given the incredible threat posed by the Central and later Axis powers, this was largely just chance. It's hard to remember that history is written by the victors, but even so, h...

From wikipedia: A fief (/fiːf/; Latin: feudum) was the central element of feudalism and consisted of heritable property or rights granted by an overlord to a vassal who held it in fealty (or "in fee") in return for a form of feudal allegiance and service, usually given by the personal ceremon...

I don't know if this is the right forum for this question, but it seems to me that it was one of the easiest to understand and yet one of the most significant discoveries in the history of science. But I could see the average person not following such discoveries or grasping its significance. I a...

In 1795, Alaskan colonial supremo A.A. Baranov sent a letter to his bosses in Irkutsk. The text in Tikhmenev's History, Volume II, Documents, says: An English ship wintered in Kamchatka in 1793.... The English were well-armed.... If Baranov was correct, what ship was this, and where did it ...

Is there a database or an archive where I could find London Golden Square's inhabitants in the 18th century. I know that a famous musician of that time was living on that square, and I'm trying to find in which house exactly and what time he was there (I know he was in London from 1729 and dies ...

Did Israel consider doing this and if so, would that have been in violation of international law?

Really, what happened to them? Did the Soviet union destroy them, house troops with in them? What happened? Where did the people go when communism was adapted? Did they stay in their residencies or move to communal apartments? This is a question I have been asking for a while.

Talking about cash crops such as Rice in 18th and 19th centuries in Southern States. As cash crops became more profitable, how did plantation owners do all the work?

On 29 August 1526, the Ottoman Empire inflicted a decisive defeat on the Hungarian forces at Mohács. The occupation of main Hungary by the Turks has created the conditions for autonomy, confirmed by the Treaty of Speyer (1570). In 1711 the the princes of Transylvania were replaced with Habsburg g...

Western Medieval Catholic kings and nobility in Britain, France, Spain and Portugal, Italy, Germany and Austria share certain distinctive common features that can be summed under the term of vassalage that are less present in Hungary and Poland, possibly also in Scandinavia. I am referring to the...

Prompted by a chat discussion. Sometimes, users post answers in the comment section. They do this for several reasons - some common ones include that they don't have time to write a full answer, that they are only addressing part of the question, that the answer they wanted to post doesn't have ...