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In 1975, the American Psychological Association officially declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. What specific factor(s) led to this change? How did people, professionals and otherwise, react?

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In 1924, the Asian Exclusion Act banned immigration by Japanese people to the USA. In 1927, Edmonston, Maryland elects a Japanese-American mayor. Was that part of Maryland less xenophobic than the general national sentiment? What was the context?

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Russian Jewish poet Joseph Brodsky has said that he endured a lot of antisemitism growing up. How common were antisemitic attitudes in his birthplace Leningrad? Why/how did antisemitism linger after the revolution?

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When I was growing up, I was always told that Otto von Bismarck was a rabidly antisemitic, anticatholic, and created the nationalistic and xenophobic environment that would set the stage for the Nazis. How historical/ahistorical is this notion?

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What was pop culture like in the People's Republic of China during the Cold War?

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Let's say I'm a German living under Nazi rule in 1938, but for my own reasons I'm resolved to convert to Judaism by any means necessary, law be darned, how do I do it?

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Ayn Rand was born and raised in Revolutionary Russia, even graduating from undergraduate history there. What led her to develop such radically right-wing libertarian beliefs?

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In 1975, the American Psychological Association officially declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. What specific factor(s) led to this change? How did people, professionals and otherwise, react?	147
In 1924, the Asian Exclusion Act banned immigration by Japanese people to the USA. In 1927, Edmonston, Maryland elects a Japanese-American mayor. Was that part of Maryland less xenophobic than the general national sentiment? What was the context?	27
Russian Jewish poet Joseph Brodsky has said that he endured a lot of antisemitism growing up. How common were antisemitic attitudes in his birthplace Leningrad? Why/how did antisemitism linger after the revolution?	17
When I was growing up, I was always told that Otto von Bismarck was a rabidly antisemitic, anticatholic, and created the nationalistic and xenophobic environment that would set the stage for the Nazis. How historical/ahistorical is this notion?	9
What was pop culture like in the People's Republic of China during the Cold War?	1
Let's say I'm a German living under Nazi rule in 1938, but for my own reasons I'm resolved to convert to Judaism by any means necessary, law be darned, how do I do it?	0
Ayn Rand was born and raised in Revolutionary Russia, even graduating from undergraduate history there. What led her to develop such radically right-wing libertarian beliefs?	0