I got alexander the great, for obvious reasons ("There is nothing impossible to him who will try", ruler of one of the greatest empires at the age of 25, unbreakable spirit, pushy n kinda retarded )... After that there are other leaders, nationalists n generals like-- nepoleon, big H( austrian painter), belisarius, Baldwin IV, chandragupta maurya etc.
SO WHO'S YOURS AND WHY LEMME KNOW!
I’m currently a history undergrad and I enjoy it but I feel like a fraud like I’m not really about it you could say is this common at all I just feel like my peers have these goals and ambitions but I don’t have grand plans like them I love history and would like to teach and share my love for it. Any tips for that? My second question is how do I keep up with history and keep learning and refreshing my knowledge I don’t plan to do school forever a masters and I’ll be done probably but I still wanna learn and keep what I learned in my brain and learn more what’s the best way to keep learning and stay fresh I guess on history after schooling. I don’t really post on Reddit sorry if it’s all over the place.
Here’s how these forms reflect real-life emotions and relationships:
It made me think**,** these aren’t just divine forms, they’re reflections of human psychology and relationships.
Do you see these forms as spiritual symbolism, or as life lessons encoded in art?
Hey everyone,
I recently came across this small collection of old military items here in India and wanted to get some expert opinions.
From what I can tell:
I’m mainly trying to figure out:
Would really appreciate any insights or pointers. Thanks!
Hello all. I graduated back in 2024 with my Master's in Public History. I was going to be accepted into a PhD position for the 2025-2026 school year but then my parents died and I have been scrambling to find a job ever since.
I worked at a library but it was only for $11 an hour part-time only, applied to several museums in the area but never got a single interview, applied for remote internships and positions and never heard back, tried to get my old job as a historical interpreter I worked during one summer but I have been ghosted, and I have a job in the medical field now but I despise it. I'm starting to think that maybe I will never get a job in the field I studied for and it's making me extremely disappointed. Are my degrees worth anything at this point? Should I give up finding a job or is there another thing I haven't considered yet? I live in a college town and rural area and every other position is 2-4 hours away (so at max an 8 hour commute). I honestly give up.
I've been doing a few digital humanities projects to keep me from losing the skills I learned, but I don't think they're being taken seriously. So I really just need all the advice I can get. Thanks.
Many people know the fez (tarboush) as an Ottoman-era hat, but its strongest historical name association points to the Moroccan city of Fez.
Founded under the Idrisid dynasty, Fez became one of the major centers of Arab-Islamic civilization in North Africa. It developed into a city renowned for scholarship, crafts, trade, and urban culture. Over time, Fez gained a reputation for producing red brimless caps that became associated with the city itself, which is why many languages came to call the hat the "fez."
Fez was also deeply shaped by migrations from al-Andalus, especially after successive waves of Andalusian settlement. These communities brought skills in craftsmanship, textiles, urban arts, and learned traditions that further strengthened the city's cultural prestige.
Because of Fez's commercial importance, styles associated with the city circulated beyond Morocco. In later centuries, the fez/tarboush was widely adopted across the Ottoman world, including the Levant, Egypt, the Balkans, and Anatolia, where it became a recognizable form of official and urban dress.
So while the fez became globally famous through Ottoman usage, its name and one of its most important historical associations remain Moroccan: the city of Fez, one of the great centers of Arab-Islamic civilization in the western Islamic world.
I'm enrolled in a renowned history project (apparently Reddit likes to delete my posts if I mention it), and am studying the Myanmar opinion on the Rohingya population through interviews. I've already gotten a few people who are interested in taking part, like Myanmar citizens and a journalist, but I'm trying to find more people and don't know how. My final work will be a 2500 word essay, but I don't know how I'm going to fit such an extensive work in those few words.
Does anyone have any tips on the project as a whole or how to look for interviews? Thanks!
If you really want to understand why straw hats have stuck around for so long, you have to look past today’s carefully curated shop windows. Picture a time when the sun wasn’t just nice weather, it was something people fought against every day. Back then, a well-made hat wasn’t showing off your style; it was the only thing standing between you and heatstroke. You wore your own patch of shade right on your head during those endless, sweltering harvest days.
I can still remember digging through my grandfather’s attic and coming across a battered old Panama hat. It was dry and fragile, heavy with the scent of dust and salt, but the weave was so fine it felt smooth as silk. My grandfather told me that when he was young, the condition of a man’s brim revealed where he’d been. The straw, whether it came from Ecuador’s Toquilla palms or Mediterranean wheat fields, held the story of its soil. Straw hats were sustainable before that word had any buzz around it; they grew out of the land, lasted as long as you needed them, and then went back where they came from.
But really, the magic is all about the way the straw’s braided. I learned this firsthand poking around Amazon and Alibaba for some good raffia for a community theater project. The same old weaving tricks are still the best around. Doesn’t matter if it’s a floppy sunhat or a sharp-edged boater, the basic idea never changed. The weave lets heat out the top but blocks harsh sunlight from burning your skin. No fancy modern fabric does the job better.
Now the world’s waking up to natural stuff again, and you can see these woven hats slowly sneaking back. Wearing one’s like carrying a little reminder: sometimes, the smartest answer has been growing quietly in a field since forever. Whenever I catch sight of someone with a strong shadow cutting across their face from a straw brim, I don’t just see summertime. I see generations of hands perfecting the same old solution, year after year.
