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askhistorianscomment_feed) wrote2025-10-19 01:35 am
You explained it so well that I clearly see why people would oppose the plan. Were Northern financiers aware that Hamilton would push to redeem the war bonds? Did Hamilton benefit from insider trading?
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askhistorianscomment_feed) wrote2025-10-19 01:24 amBoth are older answers, but u/The_Alaskan has written about the contact between opposite sides of the Bering Strait. As always, more remains to be written.
askhistorianscomment_feed) wrote2025-10-19 01:24 amWho are some women rulers associated with silver? I am working on a project, and am trying to find some women rulers associated with silver - either the color, or the material. Do people know of any, or can direct me to any?
askhistorianscomment_feed) wrote2025-10-19 01:23 amPeople born in the territories of what was Austria-Hungary would sometimes write they were born in Austria. If your family member is from Galicia (what seems likely given the information you provide), I think it would have made sense for him during WWII — but before Pearl Harbor — to say he was from Poland rather than from Russia, the Soviet Union, or Ukraine. My neighbor is from Transylvania and he has shown me some old family documents: in some of them, his family was said to be from Hungary, Romania, or Austria-Hungary, yet he defends they were always Germans, which other documents also confirm.
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askhistorianscomment_feed) wrote2025-10-19 01:15 amHello sir, can I ask you more regarding Robert Forczyk's analysis of Operation Sealion? Would the German magnetic and sound mines be serious problem for the British navy to approach the German vessels used for landing? What about the effectiveness of German smokescreens also mentioned by Forczyk? Can we conclude that the German landing was bound to fail even if the Luftwaffe didn't switch the target from airfield to London? Thanks!
askhistorianscomment_feed) wrote2025-10-19 01:15 amThank you for your nuanced contribution. It's an important question for many of all stripes
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askhistorianscomment_feed) wrote2025-10-19 01:08 amI’d advise against ignoring any body of work because of criticism. Ingest widely and think for yourself.
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askhistorianscomment_feed) wrote2025-10-19 12:59 amThis is part of my answer to the question: Where does the inherit idea that “Government is inefficient” originate, especially in the United States?
I would refer you to Naomi Oreskes's The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.
Oreskes is a historian of science who wrote Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, and in the process of figuring out how climate change denial had become pervasive, she found that similar corporate interests and industry groups were behind what she now calls "The Big Myth". According to her, three moments were particularly important in its diffusion.
The first moment was when the National Association of Manufacturers, a trade group representing factory owners, developed a concept called "the tripod of freedom": U.S.-American freedom = representative democracy + civil and political rights + "free enterprise". They renamed private enterprise (private companies had a bad reputation in the 20s and 30s) to "free enterprise"; this manipulated language was used to oppose progressive legislation (abolition of child labor, minimum wage laws, food safety laws, etc.) and the New Deal.
The second moment was after WWII, when the William Volker Fund and other business interests, in order to give their ideas a veneer of respectability, funded the immigration to the United States of two economists associated with the Austrian School of Economics ("trust the market, forget about the government"), Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek. Both of them found jobs at universities in the United States – von Mises at New York University and Hayek at the University of Chicago – although, as is of public knowledge, an external foundation paid for their salaries, and not the their universities. Hayek's ideas, in particular, became well known (Oreskes shows how even some judges began to cite him in their decisions), and to this day "educational" material promoting his thought has made its way into many school districts.
The third moment was its popularization thanks to people active in the media and in Hollywood. Oreskes mentions Ayn Rand's work as a screen writer and the General Electric Theater hosted by Ronald Reagan. This is the third time that my browser freezes, so sorry if I leave out the details; I also think this is could be the most controversial part of the answer, so I will redirect you to u/lazespud2's comment about Reagan's TV career and this longer answer by u/jbdyer about Ronald Reagan and unions.
askhistorianscomment_feed) wrote2025-10-19 12:56 amI like this response. Possible but not practical is a pretty common answer for why something wasn’t done before.
And yes, ball bearings are a modern marvel no one thinks about. The little part that you don’t even know exists but makes everything work.
askhistorianscomment_feed) wrote2025-10-19 12:46 amIt's out of the time periods you specified, but my answer on Tang administration might be of interest:
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