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Have historians been writing about the relatively recent past less than the used to? My impression is that the 1960s or 1970s were hardly over before major histories of those eras were written, but relatively little has been written about the 1990s or 2000s.

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How many U.S. government documents from the 1950s or 1960s or even earlier are still classified? What is the process whereby documents get declassified? Is there even a general sense of the amount and general subject matter of still classified documents from decades past?

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How many Americans defected to the Soviet Union then undefected and returned?

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How many historical diaries and personal letters become available to historians every year?

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Many organizations (the Catholic Church being the most famous) had a problem with child sexual abuse, and a long-term, widespread effort to cover it up. I’m interested in those that covered it up: what were their motivations? NSFW

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Do academic historians avoid certain topics that are seen as the domain of kooks and cranks fearing it’ll hurt their career?

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Was J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI tapping the phones of Hale Boggs and other members of Congress? And, if so, why?

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Is there a recent lengthy treatment of the Moorer-Radford Affair?

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How much hostility would there have been between Trotskyists and those loyal to the U.S.S.R. in the early 1960s in the U.S.?

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What were the first government files leaked to the press? What’s the earliest known destruction of potentially embarrassing government files?

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Have historians been writing about the relatively recent past less than the used to? My impression is that the 1960s or 1970s were hardly over before major histories of those eras were written, but relatively little has been written about the 1990s or 2000s.	88
How many U.S. government documents from the 1950s or 1960s or even earlier are still classified? What is the process whereby documents get declassified? Is there even a general sense of the amount and general subject matter of still classified documents from decades past?	48
How many Americans defected to the Soviet Union then undefected and returned?	14
How many historical diaries and personal letters become available to historians every year?	7
Many organizations (the Catholic Church being the most famous) had a problem with child sexual abuse, and a long-term, widespread effort to cover it up. I’m interested in those that covered it up: what were their motivations? NSFW	6
Do academic historians avoid certain topics that are seen as the domain of kooks and cranks fearing it’ll hurt their career?	4
Was J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI tapping the phones of Hale Boggs and other members of Congress? And, if so, why?	4
Is there a recent lengthy treatment of the Moorer-Radford Affair?	3
How much hostility would there have been between Trotskyists and those loyal to the U.S.S.R. in the early 1960s in the U.S.?	2
What were the first government files leaked to the press? What’s the earliest known destruction of potentially embarrassing government files?	2