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Has the term "historical revisionism," or its counterparts, always had the political implications that it currently does?	29
Is it possible that the rampant murdering of envoys we hear about through history is mostly a narrative device?	28
Tony Judt's "Postwar" - Do most historians of WW2 and it's immediate aftermath agree with Judt's notion that war-time ethnic cleansing and the resulting ethnically homogeneous nations/borders helped establish the period of peace we've seen since then?	26
What "color" did historians from different cultures and regions use to describe "White" Eurasians before European Imperialism?	19
[Historiography] How do historians reconcile scientific disputes affecting their field, when trying to form an accurate narrative?	19
Was Jonathan Edwards' famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" an execution sermon written in reaction to the outcome of the Conspiracy of 1741?	13
"OK" is the survivor of an 1839 slang in which speakers would abbreviate purposefully misspelled phrases (all correct=oll korrect=ok). Do we have any record of negative reactions to or criticisms of this fad and it's creators?	8
How long after coming under Arab-Muslim rule did it take for Muslims to become majority populations in the former Roman and Persian Empires?	8
During the wreck of the HMS Birkenhead, some 300 soldiers reportedly stood silently in formation while sinking to their deaths. Is there any reason to believe this account to be exaggerated or propagandistic? Does the account match the discipline required of the average British soldier at the time?	8
Did the Nazis have any long term plans to eventually exterminate and replace other Western European peoples in the way they did the cultures of Eastern Europe? How did they conceive of Mediterranean and Celtic "races"?	7

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