/u/PersikovsLizard's posts in /r/askhistorians

Year:

Only show posts with narrations

In a one-sentence aside, Hannah Arendt writes that Hitler never had any intention of killing the ~2000 Finnish Jews because of his deep respect for the Finnish people. Why the respect and why would it matter if he wouldn't have considered the Jews Finns?

304 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

Did men kiss in 19th century Russia as much as they do in the Brothers Karamazov?

197 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

Why did law degrees in the US change from being undergraduate (LL.B.) to graduate (J.D.) in the 1960s.

187 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

Why did Muskogee/ Creek Indians send their kids to Scotland to get educated in the late 1700s and early 1800s?

160 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

In 1858, Texas approved a law requiring its laws to be translated into Norwegian. Why? Didn't most Norwegians immigrant to the upper Midwest? Was any translation ever done? Was there even a Norwegian standard alphabet then?

106 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

Why didn't the North just let the South secede (in the US Civil War) and get on with it?

105 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

I just read that the founder of the Children's Theater Company of Minnesota was sentenced to a year in the workhouse for abusing children in 1984. Weren't workhouses a thing in Victorian Britain? What kind of workhouse existed in the USA in the 80s?

43 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

Did the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain involve mass migration that pushed the Celtic people to the North and West?

38 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

I recently read a historian which spoke of "peasants" as late as the 1970's in Western Europe. Is that normal terminology? What's a peasant anyway (and not a farmer or agricultural labourer?

28 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

How do historians differentiate between "genuine" folk traditions and traditions with a heavily self-conscious or commercial character? Is it even possible?

15 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
In a one-sentence aside, Hannah Arendt writes that Hitler never had any intention of killing the ~2000 Finnish Jews because of his deep respect for the Finnish people. Why the respect and why would it matter if he wouldn't have considered the Jews Finns?	304
Did men kiss in 19th century Russia as much as they do in the Brothers Karamazov?	197
Why did law degrees in the US change from being undergraduate (LL.B.) to graduate (J.D.) in the 1960s.	187
Why did Muskogee/ Creek Indians send their kids to Scotland to get educated in the late 1700s and early 1800s?	160
In 1858, Texas approved a law requiring its laws to be translated into Norwegian. Why? Didn't most Norwegians immigrant to the upper Midwest? Was any translation ever done? Was there even a Norwegian standard alphabet then?	106
Why didn't the North just let the South secede (in the US Civil War) and get on with it?	105
I just read that the founder of the Children's Theater Company of Minnesota was sentenced to a year in the workhouse for abusing children in 1984. Weren't workhouses a thing in Victorian Britain? What kind of workhouse existed in the USA in the 80s?	43
Did the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain involve mass migration that pushed the Celtic people to the North and West?	38
I recently read a historian which spoke of "peasants" as late as the 1970's in Western Europe. Is that normal terminology? What's a peasant anyway (and not a farmer or agricultural labourer?	28
How do historians differentiate between "genuine" folk traditions and traditions with a heavily self-conscious or commercial character? Is it even possible?	15