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392 upvotes
Jul 22, 2026, 3:14 AM UTC
Posted by /u/WartimeHotTot
The way I was taught about the Great Depression in school made it seem like there was extreme political pressure coming from homeless people themselves, and this ended up affecting politics at the highest level. To me, it seemed that the term Hoovervilles (along with Hoover blan…
277 upvotes
Jul 21, 2026, 8:16 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Sufficient_Fuel5269
212 upvotes
Jul 22, 2026, 1:08 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Asleep_Wealth5602
Our names are Dr Deborah Albon and Dr Amy Palmer and we are the authors of ‘First Helpings: A History of Children and Food’ published by Reaktion Books. This book explores the relationship between children and food in history, drawing on a rich variety of social records, cookery…
181 upvotes
Jul 21, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC
162 upvotes
Jul 21, 2026, 8:26 PM UTC
156 upvotes
Jul 21, 2026, 11:48 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Bongolio-the-seal
I assume that it was not solely a few days before Appomatox that the CSA's government realised that the war was a lost cause. So at what point did everyone realise the jig was up? Were there any people who thought the war could be won even at the very end? Like, I assume we have…
139 upvotes
Jul 22, 2026, 8:45 AM UTC
Posted by /u/ManicMarine
Poland had been a part of Imperial Russia, at least a large chunk of historic Poland had been. Stalin incorporated other nations such as the Baltic states. The USSR had had a significant population of Poles prior to 1939. It would have avoided the need to ethnically cleanse the…
134 upvotes
Jul 21, 2026, 11:39 PM UTC
Posted by /u/wastevens
I saw a post elsewhere about how, contrary to much of the world, the expectation at most non-fine dining restaurants is you will be served between a meal-and-a-half to two meals worth of food per order. When/how did this develop as an American cultural norm, distinct from the wo…
129 upvotes
Jul 22, 2026, 6:06 AM UTC
Posted by /u/SystemOfTheUpp
I understand that the USSR was very heavily Russian-dominated from the get-go but especially following Stalin's Russification policies, but the use of "Russians" and "soviets" as synonyms never made sense to me. I've seen it in primary sources, history books, academic papers wri…
129 upvotes
Jul 21, 2026, 8:24 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Liinasepp
My brother, 20 y/o, has decided to join an Eastern Orthodox monastery in Europe and will leave in few weeks before summer ends. The decision came out of nowhere (for me, at least), and a few weeks back he told me about his plans for the future. Since he is just 20 years old, I w…
126 upvotes
Jul 21, 2026, 10:42 PM UTC
Posted by /u/dr-doc-phd
Today if I wanted to start reading older Superman comics, I could pirate them online, or purchase one of the many omnibuses. But in 1978 those omnibuses didn't exist, and the internet was still a twinkle in young Al Gore's eye. While I could certainly start buying the books as t…
53 upvotes
Jul 22, 2026, 12:38 AM UTC