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Is there any evidence that JFK's assassination, and LBJ's suspicions that "a Communist conspiracy" (not just Oswald) was behind it, factored into LBJ's decision to escalate US military involvement in Vietnam?	6
I’ve read about the Reagan administration soliciting private donations in the US on behalf of the Nicaraguan Contras. Did they also raise private American funds on behalf of other anti-Communist fighters like the Afghan mujahideen or UNITA in Angola?	6
Is it at all helpful to think of diaspora Jews throughout European and American history as retaining traits of educated, entrepreneurial immigrant populations?	6
Where and when did the concept of the “family wage” originate?	6
What were the major characteristics of the first suburbs in the US? Was there any sense among urban planners or developers at the time of how massive “suburbia” would eventually become in the country?	6
Why did George H. W. Bush only come in third in the Iowa caucus during the 1988 US presidential election?	6
Did Napoleon ever consider allying with the First Saudi State during his campaigns in the Middle East? What evidence, if any, exists to support this?	5
To what extent - if any - did surviving White Army veterans of the Russian Civil War, or White émigrés more broadly, support Nazi Germany?	5
What was the initial national security response 9/11 outside of the United States? Were counterterrorism efforts and authorities rapidly expanded like they were in the US?	5
I’ve read that Thomas Jefferson romanticized the independent, self-sufficient “yeoman farmer” as the true exemplar of republican liberty. How accurately did this actually describe most people in late 18th/early 19th century America?	5

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