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Why Did "The Economist" Argue That Confederate Victory in the Civil War would Result in Abolition Sooner Than Union Victory? Was This a Widely Held Belief at the Time?

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The scholar Feng Guifeng passed the Qing provincial civil service exam on his first attempt in 1832 with flying colors, displaying the kind of talent seen "once in a hundred years. " But taking the test again just three years later, he failed completely. What explains this dramatic change?

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On the Accuracy of "Young Sheldon" - Would Vietnamese Immigrants in Texas have been targeted by the KKK?

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Robert Caro's bio of LBJ describes the crucial electoral power of "thousands of Mexican voters" in San Antonio in 1932. How politically involved could Hispanics be in the Jim Crow South?

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Why Did South Carolina not Hold a Popular Vote in Presidential Elections Until After the Civil War?

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Flag of Birsk, Bashkortostan, Russia, depicts a Dipper (Cinclus cinclus)

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How Accurate is the Description of 19th-century Whaling given in "Moby-Dick"?

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Why did Stalag fiction (Holocaust pornography) appear in Israel during the 1950s?

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What did the rank and file of the Taiping Rebellion Believe about the cause they were fighting for?

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What did Hubert Humphrey do to reform the Minneapolis Police Department?

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Why Did "The Economist" Argue That Confederate Victory in the Civil War would Result in Abolition Sooner Than Union Victory? Was This a Widely Held Belief at the Time?	322	AskHistorians
The scholar Feng Guifeng passed the Qing provincial civil service exam on his first attempt in 1832 with flying colors, displaying the kind of talent seen "once in a hundred years. " But taking the test again just three years later, he failed completely. What explains this dramatic change?	44	AskHistorians
On the Accuracy of "Young Sheldon" - Would Vietnamese Immigrants in Texas have been targeted by the KKK?	34	AskHistorians
Robert Caro's bio of LBJ describes the crucial electoral power of "thousands of Mexican voters" in San Antonio in 1932. How politically involved could Hispanics be in the Jim Crow South?	18	AskHistorians
Why Did South Carolina not Hold a Popular Vote in Presidential Elections Until After the Civil War?	7	AskHistorians
Flag of Birsk, Bashkortostan, Russia, depicts a Dipper (Cinclus cinclus)	6	vexillology
How Accurate is the Description of 19th-century Whaling given in "Moby-Dick"?	5	AskHistorians
Why did Stalag fiction (Holocaust pornography) appear in Israel during the 1950s?	5	AskHistorians
What did the rank and file of the Taiping Rebellion Believe about the cause they were fighting for?	4	AskHistorians
What did Hubert Humphrey do to reform the Minneapolis Police Department?	3	AskHistorians