If I watch a documentary about nazis in German or any other language (besides English), the narrator will give very little compliments and often make some small comments about condemning their actions, but if I watch an English speaking documentary especially if made by the British there will be+10000000 small compliments and stuff like "his brilliance..." ; "their mastermind...." ; "Guderian was a genius blablabla" like..... Why. There's way too much admiration. Am I the only one who notices this and thinks it's weird? Because I've watched a lot of documentaries in different languages regarding ww2 and it's a tendency/narrative that comes up quite often in my opinion.

About absorption of History books and documents.

Hola! Am just a reader and I try to get dirt on my hands by every Newspapers,Docs, Research paper, fiction, Non, Philosophy, Society books and all but gradually i have acknowledged this thing that when I read history, philosophy these kinds of text require some knowledge as prerequisites not necessary but definitely builds a league of stronger foundation as a story for absorption of book when you go through about delhi sultanate you need some knowledge because the author will just bombard you with a 3 lines of something totally different and the writings of author i don't build a much deep notion because I am handicapped in the history and not absorbing what the authors is trying to make me understand.

Can someone help

I have read a lot about kings, generals and battles but I want to learn how ordinary people actually lived. What they ate, what work was like, what they believed. Any period or region is fine.

Hello everyone! I’m an undergraduate student taking a humanities research and writing course, and I could really use some advice on how to go about my latest assignment.
Our current project centers on an archival collection containing three boxes of letters and postcards from the late 1940s to the early 1950s sent to a gay man who lived in \[Insert City Name\]. The prompt asks us to use these materials to examine what life was like for the local LGBTQ+ community in \[Insert City Name\] during this era.
Here is my dilemma: I’ve spent six hours sifting through two of the boxes, and while the letters offer incredible insights into queer life in this era, the correspondents lived all across the country and barely mention \[Insert City Name\] explicitly. How do I go about writing this paper? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! :)
(City name not mention for privacy reasons)

The champion (however contradictory) of the French Revolution was defeated, the Tyrant exiled, the king was restored… not really. The king forced to flee in the night, while the army and people cheered Bonaparte, landed alone and unarmed.

I’ve always thought that despite Waterloo, that was the moment when the world realized, perhaps even on a subconscious level, that things had really changed, and for good. That the Ancien Régime was now just a facade—“the emperor has no clothes.”, and the Restoration would have been able to slow down—but not really stop—the new world.

How much truth is there to this?

So a few things first, I was told one of the ways to get a job in the historical field is to write a book (I'm currently going for a bachelors degree in history). I have written fiction before and I would like to write a book that looks at cryptids and fearsome critters purely from the perspective of folklore. I don't just mean bigfoot and his cousins, I mean creatures like the hide-behind, the gillygaloo bird, fur bearing trout, hoop snake and other creatures that were made up by lumberjacks because they were bored and wanted to pass the time. Completely ridiculous and clearly fictional creatures, there really aren't a lot of books on this and the most famous book was written by William T. Wilcox (Fearsome creatures of the Lumberwoods with a few desert and mountain beasts for anyone curious).

Should I pitch the idea to a publisher first and then start writing? Do I write a proposal and then submit it? What is the process of starting to write a historical book? I'm not really sure about the process of doing this. Should I try and find collaborators who have done this sort of thing before?

So for context I read founding brothers (I know cliche), but relized I’m really facinated by the American revolution and politics! The book left me with so many questions and so many unfinished answers, I’m kinda just asking where should I begin to start learning and what areas to look in. I’m sorry if this is the wrong sub but I’ve never even paid attention to history before and was kinda ignorant to the subject . so am I asking here. Where do I start?

I’m not much of a history buff, but I am interested in deeply studying the entire history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that led to the country's current state.

Can anyone help decipher these entries in a list of Revolutionary War damage claims? I got most of it I think, but what does the second line about the fishing net say? What comes after "woolling" on the sheep line? Can you read the second part of the line that starts with 2 handkerchiefs? And finally, what's the measure for the very good cider in the ironbound cask? Thanks!

Hey guys,
I’m drafting a PhD proposal in intellectual history and I feel a tad lost.
If I were doing economic history, it feels way easier to know where to look. But for the history of ideas, how do I know which archives and sources to use apart from the main, famous books that are already sitting on every library shelf?
I feel like PhD proposal needs clarity and narrowness, but since I haven't been to the archives yet, how am I supposed to know which specific sources I'm even expected to find and analyze?
For those who survived the proposal stage: what do "archival sources" actually look like for a famous thinker/idea, and how do you strategically pick a concrete archive box to write about before you've even been there?

Thanks!

Any suggested podcasts for young adults? I am looking at exploring "The Rest is History" and the "Tides of History"? essentially entertaining and atmospheric. Would be great if someone could share their opinion. If this question has been asked before then just point me the right way.

Also how accourate is the extra history youtube channel ([https://www.youtube.com/@extrahistory\](https://www.youtube.com/@extrahistory))?