/u/PCLD's posts in /r/AskHistorians
Did the 1848 revolutionaries invoke rhetoric of the United States or use it as an example of either republicanism or democracy? Did the US public (or even government) support any of the revolutionaries?
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How accurate is "War is a Racket"? What does it get right? Wrong? What's the historical context it was written in?
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Why does the UK have so many of the oldest schools (and other institutions) in the world if it was relatively underdeveloped until the late medieval period?
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Why were there many German and Yiddish, mostly urban, communities scattered noncontiguously throughout Eastern Europe in the 16th-19th century period?
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Has there ever been a point after the Anglo-Saxon migration into England that the English didn't identify as a Germanic people?
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The major Western Front battles of WWI (Marne, Somme, Verdun, the various Ypres, etc.) always run together for me. Could someone help put them chronologically and explain the turning points/strategic changes that took place between them?
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How did Leon Trotsky, a member of a different party just months before, achieve high leadership in the Bolshevik Party in late 1917?
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What's a good history of the black power movement (especially Black Panthers, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, etc.)?
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I've seen Jean Paul Marat portrayed as everything from a visionary before his time, to a crazed nutjob, to a murderous infidel. Is there a historical consensus? What is a good biography to understand this polarizing figure?
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