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During the 1988 US presidential election, was Michael Dukakis negatively affected by his non-WASP heritage? Did Bush surrogates attempt to use this against him in their rhetoric (e.g. suggesting that it made him less authentically American than Bush with his Mayflower ancestors)?	2	AskHistorians
During my first year at the university, my very opinionated Western Civ. professor claimed that the 20th c. in Europe is called "the Age of Dehumanization." Is this actually an established periodization term, or is it something he himself made up?	2	AskHistorians
Did the fall of the Soviet Union result in any serious interest in establishing a constitutional monarchy in Russia with an heir to a cadet branch of the Romanov dynasty?	2	AskHistorians
I just read an early-19th-c. novel set in Late Medieval France and Switzerland where a powerful duke with many enemies dresses a corpse on the battlefield in his clothes to fake his death and flee. Is there any historical precedent to this kind of trick?	2	AskHistorians
If I'm not mistaken, a University-educated English gentleman from, let's say, 1790 to 1820 would've been expected to be well versed in Latin and Greek. Would he have also been expected to know any modern foreign languages? If so, which ones?	2	AskHistorians
Looking for recommendations for books about 1830's Spain - both about general history and about literary and print culture more specifically (in Spanish or English) (6th attempt)	2	AskHistorians
Ross Perot was maybe the strongest American voice against NAFTA in the 1990s. The Mexican left was also against NAFTA at the time. Did they come to see him as something of an ally within the US?	2	AskHistorians
Is there any evidence that NY Governor Mario Cuomo really had mob ties? If not, why did he never run for president, despite having been one of the most charismatic Democratic politicians of the Reagan-Bush era?	2	AskHistorians
Do we know how often Vikings would return to their Scandinavian homelands versus how often they would spend the rest of their lives on the foreign shores to which they had traveled?	2	AskHistorians
Well known are the acts of voter suppression (e.g., so-called literacy tests, grandfather clauses, outright violence) to which black Americans were subjected for at least a century after emancipation. Were women voters subjected to similar acts in the elections of the 1920s and 30s? (3rd attempt)	2	AskHistorians

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