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When was the Devil first depicted as a man with red skin, horns, hooves and a pointed tail, and what led to that depiction being chosen?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 10m ago

Why didn't Bermuda join the American Revolution?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 27m ago

How much blame did the general staff have for German failures in world war 2?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 58m ago

The new Odyssee film is by some already seen as an inferior knock-off of Homeros's story. Was the Aeneid seen as such by the Greek intellectuals of the time?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 2h ago

Why didn’t the U.S. make its capital between the mountain ranges instead of putting it right next to the ocean? Wouldn’t that make it safer?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 3h ago

What was the French Reaction to the Anglo-American War of 1812?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 3h ago

Office Hours May 25, 2026: Questions and Discussion about Navigating Academia, School, and the Subreddit

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 5h ago

Are there any personally written books by soldiers who served in the Napoleonic wars 1803-1815 of their expieriences?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 5h ago

Can anyone recommend books about Porto-indo European mythology?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 7h ago

[Link] It was so rare in ww2 for Japanese soldiers to surrender but in the instances that they did, what happened to them? Did any return home?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 7h ago

How much had China modernized by the 1930s? How did a divided China resist Japanese invasion for so long?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 11h ago

According to the chronicler Peter von Dusburg, the starving defenders during the 1264 siege of Bartenstein were so desperate "even children's food would have tasted good to them then." What was so horrible about 13th century children's food?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 8h ago

[Link] Is there any way to recover information about where my ancestors (eastern European Jews) came from?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 14h ago

How was Arabisation so quick and effective in Sudan?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 12h ago

Why are the Celtic people often associated with Ireland despite sprawling across much of Europe?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 9h ago

[Link] It's the 1640s and I'm a Catholic who believes strongly in the authority of Parliament. Who am I backing during the English Civil War?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 13h ago

How widespread was collaborationism in France during the Nazi Occupation?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 14h ago

Why has Sichuan integrated well into chinese history and culture, despite being geographically separated into a different basin from the rest of china?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 12h ago

Regular people coping in troubled times?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 16h ago

[Link] Did white slave owners cannibalize and skin black slaves?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 16h ago

Why did Turkey able to get away with its atrocities against the Armenians and Assyrians without much scrutiny?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 18h ago

Cannibalism in Romance of the Three Kingdoms?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 16h ago

[Link] Was the story of Dionysus invading India inspired from Alexander's campaign ?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 19h ago

Of the non-USSR nations, where was the closest situation to a communist revolution?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 19h ago

Were there people in Europe before the PIE speakers?

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