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In the 1996 spoof comedy film "Don't be a menace to South Central", there's a scene where people are playing a video game where the aim is to beat up Rodney King. How was this perceived by the public just 4-5 years after the beating, verdict and riots?
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The reigns of Russian Tsars Nicholas I, Alexander II, Alexander III & Nicholas II (1825 - 1917) saw numerous attempts by revolutionaries to overthrow government Why did it over 90 years for such a group to take hold? Why wasn't anyone strong enough to do it sooner than the Bolsheviks?
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What was the state of American Civil War historiography like prior to 1990? How did Ken Burns change the way Americans viewed not only the ACW but it's causal/consequential events?
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What are historians views on R.W. Johnson's "How long will South Africa survive?" Am I right in thinking that Johnson's main argument is that south africa might not be able to (continue) surviving without apartheid being in place?
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Canal+'s "Versailles" paints Louis XIV & his court as liberal, progressive and decadent. Is this a fair representation of the Sun King and those close to him? What effect did this attitude have on the French people?
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After certain developments in the Civil Rights Movement in 1964, 1965 & 1968 why were peaceful ideals rejected in favour of more violent ones? Specifically after the developments of 1964/65 why was there still fairly pronounced racial violence (police brutality, Watts, Detroit & Rodney King riots)?
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In the run-up to, during & after the 100th Anniversary of Britain's involvement in WWI there were quite a few books released focusing on said war. Did any of these new books shift the current ideas in WWI historiography? Did it have an impact of the war's casual/consequential events?
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Can it be said that the Chinese Communist movement actually started in 1850 with Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Rebellion instead of with the Chinese Civil War? Making Mao's reign merely a stage of communism in China akin to Khrushchev's tenancy in the USSR was just one stage of many in Communist Russia.
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WW1 Poetry is a big part of how we view the individual soldier's experience today but how has it's perception over time changed? How did the soldier's who wrote it come to view it & their experience in the generation(s) after the war?
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