#history questions

[whossmashedguitar]

Question because idk how to google this and i'm pretty sure someone on here will know so you know that medieval art style that looks almost cartoonish that the monks drew in the margins of books? What is that called?

This style

[embraceanewmaneachnight]

hey history buffs specifically of Native American history, are there any cases of white European settlers integrating into Native American tribes?

this question has always scratched my brain and I don’t know how to phrase this question in a way google understands.

[desi-lgbt-fest]

Hi, how are you?

So my ask is not restricted to Indian queer history, but i wanted to know if you could help me find some resources on queer-coded literature. Or how and why certain literatures from the 19-20th century are considered to be queer when it is not explicitly said so?

Thank you!

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[reality-detective]

1963 Refrigerator 🤔

[sunflour39]

Why don’t men wear dressing gowns anymore?

[salazariesalome]

I'm reading Gone with the Wind, I'm only halfway through, and I have one question for anyone who knows: Is it true that some slaves stayed with their owners? and those who did looked down on the free ones?

I guess it must be fake, propaganda by a racist southerner, but I guess you never know, specially considering how little the reconstruction actually did for the freed slaves.

[tudorblogger]

‘The Rest is History: History’s Most Curious Questions Answered’ by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook

Genre: Adult Non-Fiction – History Published: 2023 Format: Paperback Rating: ★★★★ I really enjoyed this romp through history. As usual with me, however, some of the jokes went over my head and I had to look a couple up which was a little annoying for me reading. But it was a great read, not too meaty on topics which were new to me which was good. There was a lot of really interesting…

[ladyroyalkiwi]

‘No other movement of religious protest…has been so widespread or lasting in its effects’ (Dr Euan Cameron)

Hi tumblers,

This is a quote from Dr Euan Cameron's book, 'The European Reformation' (2012) which argues that the reformation of the Christian religion demonstrated how necessary it was for change to take place within the Catholic Church. Too many people were withdrawn from the Catholic religion and they needed a new branch of Christianity to be preached. The ‘Lutheran Reformation’ was the beginning of the Protestant movement throughout Europe which made Luther's preaching extremely important to the history of the Christian religion. This Protestant movement can be compared with Zwingli and Calvin's own protestant preaching thus demonstrating the Lutheran branch as being more effective to society with its growing popularity over Catholicism. I think that the Lutheran movement was a very important step to the development of Protestantism however, I believe Luther, Zwingli and Calvin all took different approaches to sharing their message therefore, they are all important figures to Protestantism spreading in Europe. Luther began the preaching outside of Catholicism in 1517 which created the path for Protestantism however, he did not create the true meaning of being a Protestant believer on his own. What do you think?

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[rachel-sylvan-author]

"How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes" by Cody Cassidy

Guys!! I read "The Nature of Fragile Things" about the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake two days ago, recommended it yesterday. I read this yesterday to recommend today and!! It teaches how to survive the 1906 earthquake! Yay book corroboration! 😊 It's so random but it made me super happy and I hope it makes you happy too!!

Thank you @readingbeagle for recommending this! It was fun! ❤️

[bd-wlf]

If valentines day is celebrating st. Valentine for ridding Ireland of pagans(snakes) then why do we celebrate a day of love? Where did those valentines day traditions come from??

[shouldbepersephone]

My brother (currently in college shooting for a PhD in maths) sent me this at 2 am and informed me that I should “put it on the tumbler”

Jobius Strip

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

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[reality-detective]

Old Lighters 🤔

[lesbianshepard]

these are the questions about history that the people really need to ask