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Star Trek aired in the mid 60s, when audiences were locked in a proxy conflict with communist powers and in danger of experiencing nuclear war with them. How politically did American viewers interpret Roddenberry's vision of post-scarcity communism? Were networks concerned it was too "Red"?

438 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Shakespeare wrote several plays set in classical Rome. How would his theater company have costumed Roman Legionaires and Senators? Did they know soldiers of antiquity were outfitted any differently than the contemporary english Army? Did they try to make sure, e.g., Brutus had an accurate toga?

195 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[WP]President Bartlet enters the West Wing to meet with a relatively new congressman by the name of Frank Underwood

75 upvotes • r/WritingPrompts

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The House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that President Kennedy was "probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy". Do any professional historians defend this account, or has serious scholarship rejected conspiratorial explanations of JFK's death?

68 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Where did the tradition of naming different apparitions of Mary "Our Lady of ______" originate?

42 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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When Cambodia, Indonesia, and other communities in southeast Asia adopted Hinduism in the first millennium, how did they operate without a hereditary priestly caste, or any indigenous hereditary caste tradition?

41 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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[WP] Based on this /r/asksciencefiction thread, write a story about the TARDIS landing The Doctor in the throne room of the Emperor of Mankind, circa 40,000 AD

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[WP] On the 39th night of Noah's flood, the last man outside the Ark finally succumbs to death

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What differed about the conflicts like the mid WWII invasions of Iran and Iraq that they could be executed and complete in under a month, without expecting or igniting irregular warfare?

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What events led Maryland, a colony founded for English Catholics, to be the only state to ever vote for the virulently anti-catholic Know Nothing Party in the 19th century?

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Star Trek aired in the mid 60s, when audiences were locked in a proxy conflict with communist powers and in danger of experiencing nuclear war with them. How politically did American viewers interpret Roddenberry's vision of post-scarcity communism? Were networks concerned it was too "Red"?	438	AskHistorians
Shakespeare wrote several plays set in classical Rome. How would his theater company have costumed Roman Legionaires and Senators? Did they know soldiers of antiquity were outfitted any differently than the contemporary english Army? Did they try to make sure, e.g., Brutus had an accurate toga?	195	AskHistorians
[WP]President Bartlet enters the West Wing to meet with a relatively new congressman by the name of Frank Underwood	75	WritingPrompts
The House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that President Kennedy was "probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy". Do any professional historians defend this account, or has serious scholarship rejected conspiratorial explanations of JFK's death?	68	AskHistorians
Where did the tradition of naming different apparitions of Mary "Our Lady of ______" originate?	42	AskHistorians
When Cambodia, Indonesia, and other communities in southeast Asia adopted Hinduism in the first millennium, how did they operate without a hereditary priestly caste, or any indigenous hereditary caste tradition?	41	AskHistorians
[WP] Based on this /r/asksciencefiction thread, write a story about the TARDIS landing The Doctor in the throne room of the Emperor of Mankind, circa 40,000 AD	23	WritingPrompts
[WP] On the 39th night of Noah's flood, the last man outside the Ark finally succumbs to death	15	WritingPrompts
What differed about the conflicts like the mid WWII invasions of Iran and Iraq that they could be executed and complete in under a month, without expecting or igniting irregular warfare?	15	AskHistorians
What events led Maryland, a colony founded for English Catholics, to be the only state to ever vote for the virulently anti-catholic Know Nothing Party in the 19th century?	12	AskHistorians