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How did Churchill lose the 1945 after playing an instrumental role in winning the war?

443 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Are there any interesting historical works that discuss Stalag fiction, a pornographic genre that sexualized Nazi concentration camp brutality (typically in a female-on-male way)?

190 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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What were the main reasons that the U.S. went off the gold standard in 1971? Are there any major disagreements in the literature over which were most important?

87 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Is the criticism against Edward Said’s Orientalism valid and how has the work’s reception in intellectual circles evolved over time?

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When did people starting studying history in a way to led to collective memory and national memory?

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Why are Hobbes and Rousseau taken as the two pillars of the 'state of nature' debate despite Rousseau coming 200 years after and writing in a completely different context? (Looking for more of an intellectual history response).

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How have historians defined and studied “modernity”? What are the key/seminal works in the historiography of “modernity”?

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Was the idea of ‘chivalry’ borne from a military context or was it later retrofitted to include an ethos about ‘just’ conduct in war? And did it exert an influence on general conducts of war in the Early Modern European period?

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Is it a coincidence that the Global South (countries considered to have relatively low socio-economics and industry) are all located in the South of the world, or is there a logic to it? Is there a history to this and are there any interesting theories that try to explain this?

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Why did Shakespeare become so popular in 19th and 20th century America?

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How did Churchill lose the 1945 after playing an instrumental role in winning the war?	443	AskHistorians
Are there any interesting historical works that discuss Stalag fiction, a pornographic genre that sexualized Nazi concentration camp brutality (typically in a female-on-male way)?	190	AskHistorians
What were the main reasons that the U.S. went off the gold standard in 1971? Are there any major disagreements in the literature over which were most important?	87	AskHistorians
Is the criticism against Edward Said’s Orientalism valid and how has the work’s reception in intellectual circles evolved over time?	21	AskHistorians
When did people starting studying history in a way to led to collective memory and national memory?	12	AskHistorians
Why are Hobbes and Rousseau taken as the two pillars of the 'state of nature' debate despite Rousseau coming 200 years after and writing in a completely different context? (Looking for more of an intellectual history response).	11	AskHistorians
How have historians defined and studied “modernity”? What are the key/seminal works in the historiography of “modernity”?	8	AskHistorians
Was the idea of ‘chivalry’ borne from a military context or was it later retrofitted to include an ethos about ‘just’ conduct in war? And did it exert an influence on general conducts of war in the Early Modern European period?	7	AskHistorians
Is it a coincidence that the Global South (countries considered to have relatively low socio-economics and industry) are all located in the South of the world, or is there a logic to it? Is there a history to this and are there any interesting theories that try to explain this?	7	AskHistorians
Why did Shakespeare become so popular in 19th and 20th century America?	6	AskHistorians