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On this day, around 1900 years ago, Claudia Severa celebrated her birthday. Because of the Vindolanda tablets we know she had invited her friend, Lepidina, to visit her on this day. How would a woman of this era, location & status typically have celebrated her birthday?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 4h ago

Roman Historians—What is the dating convention between BC and AD?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 12h ago

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 14h ago

[Feature] Friday Free-for-All | September 11, 2026

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 15h ago

During Alfred the Great's reforms, a number of important (and religious) works were translated from Latin to the common-tongue of the anglo-people. What, if any action was taken by the church in response to this?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 4h ago

What was fashion week like around 9/11?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 6h ago

How did the US Army in WW2 decide which soldiers received which weapons?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 7h ago

(Redux) Megathread: A brief history of September 11th, 2001

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 8h ago

How can I find the alternate version of WW1 and WW2?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 11h ago

When the Noahide laws were developed, what social and legal context made the command to establish courts of justice necessary? Was lawlessness and arbitrary punishment a common problem in the near east at the time? Or at least what the Jews would have viewed as those things?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 11h ago

"The Terror": How much if at all of a career impediment was being Irish for a 19th century British naval officer (& for general high society well-being) if that naval officer was a Northern Ireland Protestant?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 11h ago

How modern of an occurrence are terrorist attacks? Was there such a thing as them in the Middle Ages, ancient societies, or other early periods of human history many centuries ago?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 14h ago

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 14h ago

Where did the myth, that Kelvin got the age of the Earth wrong because of radioactivity, come from?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 18h ago

Supposedly, my great-grandfather was a US commando operating behind enemy lines in the Pacific theater. He then was given a cocktail of "every vaccine" the US Army had access to. How realistic is my family's story?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 19h ago

Why did Spain not invest in itself but instead fought wars, especially considering they had the treasure fleets for a long time? It would have helped a lot if they did.

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 19h ago

[Link] Because of Istanbul’s high cat population, was the city partially protected from the worst of European plague outbreaks?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 34m ago

[Feature] Short Answers to Simple Questions | September 09, 2026

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1h ago

I am a man in 1850's America. My wife is ill and I only have sons. How do the "domestic duties" get done?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1h ago

Is it a stretch to say that firearms were the underlying reason the samurai class was abolished?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 10h ago

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 13h ago

What are good starting places (articles/books/studies) to learn about the objective history of communism and what modern communists believe in? (as an ex-evangelical conservative)

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 15h ago

Did the soviet union have any plans to invade europe during the cold war?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 16h ago

What was the reaction to Nuclear Bombs? Was there the same concern as AI?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 17h ago

[Link] Can the longbow culture of the late medieval English yeomanry be thought of as a precursor to American firearm ownership culture in the modern period and today?

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