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Was Bartolomé de las Casas' concern over the brutal treatment of Native American and later on, black slaves unique in his time period?	35
Before the Passage of the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act, what was the local US goldfish industry like? Did they really need tariffs to protect themselves from foreign competition?	34
According to Robert Hoyland, "Christian apologetic texts can help fill this gap, in particular showing the extent to which Muslim theologians, from a very early date, ransacked the Bible for allusions to their Prophet". But what specific Bible passages is he talking about?	32
I‘m a white-passing Native American man/woman in 1924 who just learned that I‘m now a US citizen. Would I be able to vote in the 1924 election and who would I most likely vote for?	29
In a letter to one Miss Sloan during the 1956 election, MLK described Stevenson as „more forthright on the race question than Eisenhower“ and predicted that Black voters would go largely for the Democrats. What did Eisenhower do (or not do) to alienate Black American voters in the 1956 election?	28
How did Industrial Revolution workers labor for such long hours nearly everyday of the week?	27
In 1986, Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that sexual harassment was a violation of civil rights. Why wasn't this case as influential at changing society as Brown v Board of Education?	27
(Repost) What really happened in the Gujarat Riots in 2002?	27
Margaret Thatcher infamously opposed economic sanctions on South Africa due to the belief that it would disproportionately harm the victims of apartheid. What does the historical evidence say?	25
Was Emperor Nero a successful populist leader or is the majority view amongst Classical scholar still valid?	21

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