/r/askhistorians

Year:

Only show posts with narrations

My daughter wants to know why she wears pants to softball but not soccer even though both sports involve sliding? I figured it had something to do with sliding on dirt vs grass, but was wondering if someone could give us the run down on the history of dress in popular sports through time?

1062 upvotes • ginoawesomeness

Mark as read: Add to a list

Modern jokes aside, what’s the latest known instance of English people (presumably nobility and/or military) still being sincerely sore about the loss of the 13 colonies?

1062 upvotes • powerval

Mark as read: Add to a list

Every time I mention Ronald Reagan to my father, he says that he "arguably won the Cold War". Was Reagan's presidency an important factor in ending the Could War?

1062 upvotes • AdExtension4159

Mark as read: Add to a list

My father is a Holocaust denier and is set in his ways. What do I do as his daughter?

1062 upvotes • Honest-Ad-4177

Mark as read: Add to a list

At the end of the movie Dead Presidents, a judge (played by Martin Sheen) says "I served in World War II -- A REAL war, I might add" when the client's lawyer asks for leniency because he served in Vietnam. Did people really have this kind of disdain for people who served in Vietnam?

1061 upvotes • jokemanmaker

Mark as read: Add to a list

Did the Israeli royal house die out? Or does it still exist?

1061 upvotes • SoulofThesteppe

Mark as read: Add to a list

58 people died in the 1992 LA Riots. Were most of these deaths cops/national guard shooting people, or business owners shooting looters?

1061 upvotes • Lord_Deadpool

Mark as read: Add to a list

In "Band of Brothers", a general reacts increduously that Maj. Winters did not fire his weapon after Holland, including all throughout the Siege of Bastogne. Why did he react this way?

1061 upvotes • PbZnAg

Mark as read: Add to a list

Did the phrase “confirmed bachelor” always imply homosexuality in times past?

1060 upvotes • JustinJSrisuk

Mark as read: Add to a list

I am a Soviet soldier in World War II. What is the quality of my training and equipment in 1941? In 1943? In 1945?

1060 upvotes • davst71

Mark as read: Add to a list

Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
My daughter wants to know why she wears pants to softball but not soccer even though both sports involve sliding? I figured it had something to do with sliding on dirt vs grass, but was wondering if someone could give us the run down on the history of dress in popular sports through time?	1062	ginoawesomeness
Modern jokes aside, what’s the latest known instance of English people (presumably nobility and/or military) still being sincerely sore about the loss of the 13 colonies?	1062	powerval
Every time I mention Ronald Reagan to my father, he says that he "arguably won the Cold War". Was Reagan's presidency an important factor in ending the Could War?	1062	AdExtension4159
My father is a Holocaust denier and is set in his ways. What do I do as his daughter?	1062	Honest-Ad-4177
At the end of the movie Dead Presidents, a judge (played by Martin Sheen) says "I served in World War II -- A REAL war, I might add" when the client's lawyer asks for leniency because he served in Vietnam. Did people really have this kind of disdain for people who served in Vietnam?	1061	jokemanmaker
Did the Israeli royal house die out? Or does it still exist?	1061	SoulofThesteppe
58 people died in the 1992 LA Riots. Were most of these deaths cops/national guard shooting people, or business owners shooting looters?	1061	Lord_Deadpool
In "Band of Brothers", a general reacts increduously that Maj. Winters did not fire his weapon after Holland, including all throughout the Siege of Bastogne. Why did he react this way?	1061	PbZnAg
Did the phrase “confirmed bachelor” always imply homosexuality in times past?	1060	JustinJSrisuk
I am a Soviet soldier in World War II. What is the quality of my training and equipment in 1941? In 1943? In 1945?	1060	davst71