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Why are "French-Americans" not a thing, the same way that Irish-Americans, Polish-Americans, or other white American ethnicities are?

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Why did Italians become "white" but Latinos did not?

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How old are kitchens? (As in, an entire room devoted to cooking instead of just a cauldron over the main room's fireplace)

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Why did Abraham Lincoln drop his vice president, and why did he choose Andrew Johnson instead?

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Is there any evidence that King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson actually had Nazi sympathies, or was that all rumor?

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I just found out on Colbert Report that Jimmy Carter's malaise speech doesn't actually include the word "malaise." So why is it called that??

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How old is the concept of "pets" (as in, animals kept by households despite having no practical use)? Do they predate history?

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What happened to the suffragettes after suffrage? Or, I guess, what happened to the women's movement between first and second-wave feminism?

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Around when did guns became useful and widespread enough that they became a factor in street crime?

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Was Al Capone famous before the Feds took him down? Would the average man in Chicago known who he was? In New York?

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Why are "French-Americans" not a thing, the same way that Irish-Americans, Polish-Americans, or other white American ethnicities are?	118	AskHistorians
Why did Italians become "white" but Latinos did not?	117	AskHistorians
How old are kitchens? (As in, an entire room devoted to cooking instead of just a cauldron over the main room's fireplace)	89	AskHistorians
Why did Abraham Lincoln drop his vice president, and why did he choose Andrew Johnson instead?	87	AskHistorians
Is there any evidence that King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson actually had Nazi sympathies, or was that all rumor?	81	AskHistorians
I just found out on Colbert Report that Jimmy Carter's malaise speech doesn't actually include the word "malaise." So why is it called that??	81	AskHistorians
How old is the concept of "pets" (as in, animals kept by households despite having no practical use)? Do they predate history?	79	AskHistorians
What happened to the suffragettes after suffrage? Or, I guess, what happened to the women's movement between first and second-wave feminism?	78	AskHistorians
Around when did guns became useful and widespread enough that they became a factor in street crime?	76	AskHistorians
Was Al Capone famous before the Feds took him down? Would the average man in Chicago known who he was? In New York?	74	AskHistorians