/u/RusticBohemian's posts
Large crowds often gathered to watch public hangings in the United States. Did people go for entertainment? Did they see it as part of being a responsible citizen making sure justice was done? Did they take children to "toughen them up"? Why go?
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Did English monarchs and nobles view the colonies of religious dissidents cropping up on the eastern seaboard of North America as full of loyal subjects, or more akin to a penal colony? How trustworthy and reliably "English" did they consider the American colonists?
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Did Spanish soldiers put up much of a fight against the United States's invasion of Cuba? Was it primarily lack of equipment and naval power that lead to their defeat, or were their hearts not really in the fight?
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Are the arguments that the US used to be less of a Gerontocracy in government and large institutions — with far more leaders in their late twenties to thirties — factually true?
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After the Confederate States left the Union, most of the proslavery vote disappeared. So how hard was it for Lincoln to get the Thirteenth Amendment passed among the remaining states? Did he have to do a lot of horse-trading? What did he have to give up to end slavery?
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To what extent did the Roman Republic and Empire have "free trade" agreements with neighboring states? Did they create trade agreements? Or was it just a matter of collective taxes on whatever imports arrived at the border?
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Was NATO originally a more capable war-fighting alliance than it became after the collapse of the Soviet Union? Did it pretty much become a hollowed-out shell after the Berlin Wall fell?
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