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HP Lovecraft infamously named both his actual cat and a cat in one of his stories after a racial slur. Was this sort of thing ever common when views like his were more popular? Why would a racist name a pet after a group they hate or view as inferior in the first place?

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Are modern historians any more reliable or accurate than older ones who believed in stuff like manifest destiny, great man theory, Whig history, and the litany of other prejudices, biases and misconceptions common to historians from past eras?

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Was a medieval European monarch expected to travel around their territory visiting with people the way a modern head of state is? Or was doing things like that, even for appearance's sake, considered beneath them?

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Why do so many scholars and academics rank the American presidents? Doesn't that go against many of the generally accepted principles of historical study?

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Kendrick Lamar's DAMN is the first non-classical and non-jazz album to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Why did the Pulitzers completely ignore non-jazz popular music throughout the 20th century?

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Perhaps it's a stupid question or misses the point, but was there an actual "purpose" to racial segregation beyond physical separation? What was anyone hoping to accomplish by enforcing it?

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Before the theory of evolution was established, did people know dogs and wolves were related? If not, how did they explain how dogs had become domesticated?

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Why does recorded history in Japan begin so late, roughly in 300 AD? Wouldn't the Yayoi people have brought writing from China and Korea?

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Pontiac, Winnebago, Apache, Blackhawk, Quechua, Chinook, Cherokee: where did the trend of naming unrelated products after indigenous tribes and nations come from? Is it unique to the US?

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Neil Young - Cowgirl in the Sand [Psychedelic Rock]

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HP Lovecraft infamously named both his actual cat and a cat in one of his stories after a racial slur. Was this sort of thing ever common when views like his were more popular? Why would a racist name a pet after a group they hate or view as inferior in the first place?	41	AskHistorians
Are modern historians any more reliable or accurate than older ones who believed in stuff like manifest destiny, great man theory, Whig history, and the litany of other prejudices, biases and misconceptions common to historians from past eras?	35	AskHistorians
Was a medieval European monarch expected to travel around their territory visiting with people the way a modern head of state is? Or was doing things like that, even for appearance's sake, considered beneath them?	33	AskHistorians
Why do so many scholars and academics rank the American presidents? Doesn't that go against many of the generally accepted principles of historical study?	31	AskHistorians
Kendrick Lamar's DAMN is the first non-classical and non-jazz album to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Why did the Pulitzers completely ignore non-jazz popular music throughout the 20th century?	31	AskHistorians
Perhaps it's a stupid question or misses the point, but was there an actual "purpose" to racial segregation beyond physical separation? What was anyone hoping to accomplish by enforcing it?	21	AskHistorians
Before the theory of evolution was established, did people know dogs and wolves were related? If not, how did they explain how dogs had become domesticated?	20	AskHistorians
Why does recorded history in Japan begin so late, roughly in 300 AD? Wouldn't the Yayoi people have brought writing from China and Korea?	18	AskHistorians
Pontiac, Winnebago, Apache, Blackhawk, Quechua, Chinook, Cherokee: where did the trend of naming unrelated products after indigenous tribes and nations come from? Is it unique to the US?	18	AskHistorians
Neil Young - Cowgirl in the Sand [Psychedelic Rock]	17	Music