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In 1960, To Kill A Mockingbird was published to much critical acclaim. What did civil rights activist and African-American writers think of the novel? Especially with the novel's handling of racial prejudice?
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In his diary, John Quincy Adams wrote of a Dr. Julius, sent by the Prussian government to study the prisons in the United States to improve those in Prussia. Were U.S. prisons at the time that universally well regarded?
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How did women‘s rights differ between Yemen and Saudi Arabia in the mid 1980s? Was the status of women‘s Rights (or lack thereof) a common concern for would be foreign workers going to Saudi Arabia?
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Since Haiti was one of France's most profitable colony during the 1800s, was there any more serious attempt by the French to retake it after Napoleon?
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According to economist David Autor, the WSJ rather embarrassingly predicted that 25 years from June of 1989, China would turn into an economic failure and Thailand, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe economic success stories. But, why those 3 countries in particular?
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Is this quote accurate? 'From a 2019 perspective, and because of the way the war ended with Russia on the Allied side, many historians, have accepted the postwar Soviet Union’s claim that they were neutral in the early stages of the war. This is false.'
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During WW2, the US government shared the patent for penicillin between companies and universities to mass produce the drug. Did this have any long term effects on the penicillin industry?
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Is the Power Broker (1974) by Robert Caro still a good and accurate biography of Robert Moses? If not, what are the best alternative and up to date biography out there?
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In Aguirre, the Wrath of God, a black slave claimed that Pizarro brought him along because of the belief that seeing a naked black man would scare the indigenous population of South America. Was this an actual belief held by conquistadors?
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