/u/Tiako's posts in /r/AskHistorians
The POW/MIA flag is based on a thoroughly disproven and rather kooky conspiracy theory. How did it become so accepted that in 1998 it became an federally observed day?
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During WWII, a number of Hollywood celebrities like Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart served in the military. How were they treated by the command staff and how were they viewed by fellow soldiers?
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Why were four of the first five US presidents from Virginia? What were contemporary reactions to this? And why did it stop?
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The Immigration Act of 1924 restricted immigration based on ethnicity, and outright banned immigration by Asians and Arabs. Why Arabs? What was Arab immigration to North America like then?
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Was there actually an "aristocratic" opposition to fascism in Italy and Germany? An "old guard" of conservatives who though Hitler or Mussolini were grubby and uncouth?
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The seventh plank of the Communist Manifesto advocates bringing the waste lands under cultivation. What did this refer to?
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Do New England and Southern ghost stories share a common folklore lineage? Did they influence each other?
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