/u/Vladith's posts in /r/askhistorians
How did Europeans respond to passage of the 15th amendment and sudden enfranchisement of African Americans?
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King Henry I of France married a Russian princess in the mid-11th century. How would such a marriage have been arranged, given the great distance between their lands? How much would 11th century Franks, Germans, and Anglo-Saxons have known about Russia?
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The 2016 film "The Handmaiden" references a black market for adoptions in Imperial Japan, where wealthy Japanese couples would purchase Korean orphans. Did this system exist? How did these Korean adoptees navigate the ethnic hierarchies of imperial and postwar Japan?
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