/r/askhistorians

Title	Upvotes	Author
If someone were to die today because of an accident involving an unexploded WW2 bomb, would they be added to the list of WW2 casualties?	2876	Dom19
Michael Gorbachev wrote his thesis on "the superiority of Socialism over Capitalism." Was this not a topic that had been done to death in the Soviet Union? What insight did he have to add?	2876	huzurarayan
Why/when did Canadian rural voters go from regularly voting left wing (eg. Tommy Douglas’ governments in Saskatchewan) to now regularly voting right wing?	2876	doogie1993
W. E. B. Du Bois saw the issue of lynching in America was aberrant, and that simply explaining to white people that black people were not threats would end it. After seeing Sam Hose's knuckles for sale at Atlanta, he changed his mind. How did this revelation change his opinon and methods?	2874	PyrokineticZulu
We often hear of "killing the messenger," but how dangerous was it, really, to be a messenger bearing bad news or unwelcome demands in Classical or Medieval Europe/Near East/North Africa?	2873	TheJucheisLoose
"Getting to the border" is a common trope of American heist movies. Was there ever a time when crossing the Mexican border, or leaving the country generally, actually did offer a way to get away with crimes? If so, when did that stop?	2873	FelicianoCalamity
If you were a child raised in an industrial revolution era workhouse (like Oliver Twist)... what was actually likely to happen to you if you survived to adulthood? Would you have a shot at a decent life or was this system virtually a sentence to life-long slavery?	2872	geoffbowman
Some episodes of "I Love Lucy" ended with Ricky spanking Lucy. Was this really such an accepted practice within marriage in the 1950s that it could be made light of in mainstream media or was this considered humorous because it was seen as ridiculous behavior pattern between a man and wife?	2871	PM_ME_YOUR_CRISES
Why is Norse mythology so well-known compared to other contemporaneous Germanic religions?	2871	bencousinsfan
Why was Hawaii "incorporated" into the US (which ultimately lead to its statehood), rather than keeping it like a possession like how its "unincorporated territories" (Puerto Rico, Guam, etc.) are kept to this day?	2871	zibranamir

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