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"Slavery was not put into practice because of racial theories; racial theories sprang up in the wake of slavery, so to justify it" (Richard Wright). How true is this for colonial Africa? Did the West have racial preconceptions before colonising Africa?

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Were Jews frequently amongst those discriminated against in the Deep South before the successes of the civil rights movement?

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"[J. F.] Kennedy despised how he looked in hats and usually refused to wear them - despite howls of protest from habderdashers whose hat sales took a precipitous downturn in the 1960s" (Barbara Perry). What factors led to the downturn in menswear hat sales in the 1960s?

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"Some think that neither of them is permitted to carry a spear upright... crops might be damaged by this" (Digest 8.3.7). How did the Romans design spears in the Classical period? Did they have cutting edges and how sharp could they be?

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Is there a historical consensus on the idea that Emilio Aguinaldo was fraudulently elected President of the Republic of Biak-na-Bato in the Philippine Revolution?

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How Did James Reeb's assailants know he was a civil rights activist? Were white activists frequently targeted?

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Is it true that businesses were against the American-Spanish-Cuban War? Why?

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Some great families of the seventeenth-century had muniment rooms for storing their documents and correspondences. Have muniment rooms contributed to the preservation of documents in a significant way? Is private storage of documents, as in muniment rooms, new to the seventeenth-century?

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"Slavery was not put into practice because of racial theories; racial theories sprang up in the wake of slavery, so to justify it" (Richard Wright). How true is this for colonial Africa? Did the West have racial preconceptions before colonising Africa?	3675
Were Jews frequently amongst those discriminated against in the Deep South before the successes of the civil rights movement?	30
"[J. F.] Kennedy despised how he looked in hats and usually refused to wear them - despite howls of protest from habderdashers whose hat sales took a precipitous downturn in the 1960s" (Barbara Perry). What factors led to the downturn in menswear hat sales in the 1960s?	16
"Some think that neither of them is permitted to carry a spear upright... crops might be damaged by this" (Digest 8.3.7). How did the Romans design spears in the Classical period? Did they have cutting edges and how sharp could they be?	4
Is there a historical consensus on the idea that Emilio Aguinaldo was fraudulently elected President of the Republic of Biak-na-Bato in the Philippine Revolution?	3
How Did James Reeb's assailants know he was a civil rights activist? Were white activists frequently targeted?	2
Is it true that businesses were against the American-Spanish-Cuban War? Why?	1
Some great families of the seventeenth-century had muniment rooms for storing their documents and correspondences. Have muniment rooms contributed to the preservation of documents in a significant way? Is private storage of documents, as in muniment rooms, new to the seventeenth-century?	1