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Why was so much Christmas music created in the 1950s compared to other decades?

1875 upvotes • veilside000

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During Operation Barbarossa, the Soviet Union famously disassembled most of their industrial factories and hauled them beyond the Ural Mountains. How was this accomplished? What logistics did the USSR employ to move so much material so quickly while being invaded?

1874 upvotes • quiaudetvincet

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Why did the game of bridge lose popularity?

1874 upvotes • ftf82

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Does dynastic wealth from slave trade exist in the US?

1874 upvotes • Schnort

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How did pre-colonization, Midwest, Native Americans deal with tornados? Did they write any records of these types of storms?

1873 upvotes • UTDoctor

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The movie "The Imitation Game" makes the claim that the Bletchley Park cryptologists shortened the war by two years and saved 14 million lives. How accepted are those numbers, and how were they calculated?

1872 upvotes • Triseult

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Will historians thousands of years from now have a significantly harder time studying us because we no longer store any information on stone tablets? Like if the Sumerians stored the Epic of Gilgamesh on the latest SSD we would know a lot less.

1871 upvotes • TheOneAndOnly1444

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AskHistorians Digital Conference: Announcing the Panels, Papers and Speakers!

1870 upvotes • crrpit

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I just heard a British journalist call the coming COVID-19 depression as “the worst economic crisis since 1709”. What happened in 1709?

1869 upvotes • plucky_wood

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Catherine the Great was a Prussian-born outsider who defied gender stereotypes of her time and achieved power by ousting her husband in a coup; how was she able to gain and maintain enough support to succeed? Would it be fair to call this period a 'golden age' of Russia?

1868 upvotes • td4999

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why was so much Christmas music created in the 1950s compared to other decades?	1875	veilside000
During Operation Barbarossa, the Soviet Union famously disassembled most of their industrial factories and hauled them beyond the Ural Mountains. How was this accomplished? What logistics did the USSR employ to move so much material so quickly while being invaded?	1874	quiaudetvincet
Why did the game of bridge lose popularity?	1874	ftf82
Does dynastic wealth from slave trade exist in the US?	1874	Schnort
How did pre-colonization, Midwest, Native Americans deal with tornados? Did they write any records of these types of storms?	1873	UTDoctor
The movie "The Imitation Game" makes the claim that the Bletchley Park cryptologists shortened the war by two years and saved 14 million lives. How accepted are those numbers, and how were they calculated?	1872	Triseult
Will historians thousands of years from now have a significantly harder time studying us because we no longer store any information on stone tablets? Like if the Sumerians stored the Epic of Gilgamesh on the latest SSD we would know a lot less.	1871	TheOneAndOnly1444
AskHistorians Digital Conference: Announcing the Panels, Papers and Speakers!	1870	crrpit
I just heard a British journalist call the coming COVID-19 depression as “the worst economic crisis since 1709”. What happened in 1709?	1869	plucky_wood
Catherine the Great was a Prussian-born outsider who defied gender stereotypes of her time and achieved power by ousting her husband in a coup; how was she able to gain and maintain enough support to succeed? Would it be fair to call this period a 'golden age' of Russia?	1868	td4999