Is there any historical evidence of intermarriage and shared ritual practices between Indigenous Australians and Melanesian/Papuan groups in the Torres Strait before European colonisation?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
Between the 1700s and early 1900s, when Makassan trepangers visited northern Australia, did their Islamic beliefs influence the Indigenous communities they encountered, and how were these ideas received?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
Given their early arrival and significant contributions to Australia’s inland exploration and infrastructure during the 19th and early 20th centuries, why did the Afghan cameleers and their descendants remain largely absent from formal political life in colonial and post-Federation Australia?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
When and how did the practice of real-time analysis of election results during vote counting develop, and what historical factors accounted for its emergence as a distinct form of electoral observation, separate from pre-election polling and post-election analysis?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
If stoicism and mindfulness are in vogue today as lay self-help tools, what ideas filled that role in the 17th to 20th centuries?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
Why is competitive exam-based recruitment central to the public sectors of India and Pakistan, but absent in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand? To what extent do these differences reflect divergent colonial administrative logics in settler vs extraction colonies?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
Historically, male royalty and elites in India wore elaborate jewelry as a marker of status, divinity, and warrior identity. What caused the the decline and shift in cultural attitude toward male adornment in India?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
Catholicism frames the relationship between spiritual leaders and followers using the metaphor of fatherhood (“Father” for priests and the Pope). Are there historical antecedents to this use of filial imagery in pre-Christian contexts, and if so, what factors contributed to its emergence?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
Did historians in the past tend to have more chauvinistic motivations than they do now? If so, what caused the change?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
Is there merit to the claim that the radical dimension of Martin Luther King Jr.’s political thought – particularly his critiques of capitalism, imperialism, and the structural entwinement of race and class – have been erased in dominant historical narratives and collective memory?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
Does the mistreatment of junior lawyers by senior lawyers have a long history, or is it a modern phenomenon? How have power dynamics between senior and junior lawyers evolved across legal history?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
What was the US intellectual culture like in 1992 that enabled Francis Fukuyama’s sweeping “end of history” claim to not be outright dismissed in some academic circles?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
Did early encounters between China and the Muslim world result in changes in gender norms in each respective communities?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
Was circumcision status ever been used as a marker of identity in war to identify friend versus enemy?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
Historically, when did voluntary migration away from one’s community of origin stop being viewed as a betrayal of their community? Did this differ across cultures?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
Throughout history, how have the meaning and use of the term “human shield” — commonly invoked by military and statesmen to justify attacks that would likely cause civilian casualties — changed?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
For Gurkha and Sikh soldiers in the British Indian Army who saw their loyal military service as a source of pride and prestige, how did they reconcile these positive feelings towards Empire following the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
Was there something uniquely Burkinabè about Thomas Sankara’s approach to social justice? Why hasn’t there been any revolutionary of comparable stature in West Africa since his assassination?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
[Arabic?>English] These boat looking calligraphy
r/translator is *the* community for Reddit translation requests. Need something translated? Post here! We will help you translate any language, including Japanese, Chinese, German, Arabic, and many others. If you speak more than one language - especially rare ones - and want to put your multilingual skills to use, come join us!
Has the adoption of the Latin script by languages that used different writing systems led to a loss of historical comprehension, community disconnection from its cultural and intellectual heritage, and created challenges in the study of local history?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
How have governments and institutions used the creation of nature reserves or other purported conservation measures to justify land dispossession and control?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
Pope Francis is now remembered as a champion of the poor. Did the Popes that come before him not care about the poor? Historically, how has the Vatican dealt with the question of class?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
Were any transgender individuals in dynastic China who voluntarily became eunuchs in an attempt to align their bodies with their gender identity?
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.