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Did the United States mean to become a global power, or did it more or less happen into it while pursuing other policy objectives?

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In Little Women (1868/1869), Amy March thinks that marrying a wealthy British suitor would be a good way to financially support her family in the United States. Assuming that the couple stayed in Europe, how would such an arrangement have worked in that era?

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The United States bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917 for 25 million dollars in gold. How did the transaction take place in the middle of the First World War?

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How do historians assess and use poetry as a source? Can it supply something that more objective documentary evidence can’t or make up for its absence?

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Were the "Allies" and the "Axis" commonly referred to as such during WWII, or were these names applied in retrospect?

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Did the Protestant Reformation affect the Orthodox Church?

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Are audio books a newer idea? Before recording technology, did people (specifically working class, not those with servants and leisure time) take in a significant amount of literature by having someone read aloud while they did paper-incompatible tasks like washing?

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To what extent was the general populace in Europe aware of and interested in the events of the US Civil War?

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Thanks to Twitter et al., we can find out about something that has happened almost every minute of the last four or five years. But how far back in history can we identify something that has happened every consecutive day?

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Do we know why the mummies of so many important pharaohs were just left in Theban tomb TT320?

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Did the United States mean to become a global power, or did it more or less happen into it while pursuing other policy objectives?	242
In Little Women (1868/1869), Amy March thinks that marrying a wealthy British suitor would be a good way to financially support her family in the United States. Assuming that the couple stayed in Europe, how would such an arrangement have worked in that era?	143
The United States bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917 for 25 million dollars in gold. How did the transaction take place in the middle of the First World War?	21
How do historians assess and use poetry as a source? Can it supply something that more objective documentary evidence can’t or make up for its absence?	13
Were the "Allies" and the "Axis" commonly referred to as such during WWII, or were these names applied in retrospect?	11
Did the Protestant Reformation affect the Orthodox Church?	9
Are audio books a newer idea? Before recording technology, did people (specifically working class, not those with servants and leisure time) take in a significant amount of literature by having someone read aloud while they did paper-incompatible tasks like washing?	5
To what extent was the general populace in Europe aware of and interested in the events of the US Civil War?	2
Thanks to Twitter et al., we can find out about something that has happened almost every minute of the last four or five years. But how far back in history can we identify something that has happened every consecutive day?	2
Do we know why the mummies of so many important pharaohs were just left in Theban tomb TT320?	2