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What options for musical entertainment did wealthy people on both sides of the Atlantic have in the late 19th century?	3
An ancestor of mine emigrated from Luxembourg to the United States in the mid-19th century. His last name was French and his family background was in Lorraine. How common were French-speaking immigrants from or near the Low Countries in the US in this period?	3
Why was money/currency such an important political issue in the late 19th century United States?	3
What were the demographic characteristics of Nazi voters in the 1920s, and how did they change over time?	3
I’ve read a lot about abolitionist and broader anti-slavery sentiment in New England, but I know little of the pro-slavery currents in New England. Who were the main people making such arguments, and how did they justify their positions?	3
The book “Legacy of Ashes” opens with “All Harry Truman wanted was a newspaper” and quotes from a letter Truman wrote saying the CIA was not meant to be to “a spy organization. That was never the intention.” Was Truman being honest? What do we know of Truman’s views regarding post-war intelligence?	3
In what ways did overlapping polities and jurisdictions within central Europe in the medieval period complicate efforts to create, enforce, and interpret laws? How has this changed since then?	3
I’ve read that Alexander Hamilton was accused by political opponents of being pro-monarchist, or at least being sympathetic to monarchy as a system of government. How fair is this as a description of what Hamilton actually believed?	3
Reading about the Western US, I'm struck by the repeated mention of "boosterism" in the early development of the region. Yet I wonder how effective those efforts were absent other factors for why certain places grew more than others. How important was boosterism in the American West?	3
What was the international reaction to the abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate in 1922? Was this seen at the time as an extremely important historical event?	3

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