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I'm reading Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee. How does it hold up historically? Are there any critiques of it I could read?

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When did the US Navy overtake the Royal Navy as the world's most powerful navy? Was it simply a numbers game or was it about equipment/doctrine?

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How long has alphabetical order been a standard for cataloging? How do character-based languages organize data?

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Everyday life in a city-state of Ancient Greece.

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Nero AFTER the Great Fire of Rome

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What did the Hopi, Pueblo and other indigenous groups that inhabited the four corners region in the time before contact with Anglos, but after the Anasazi collapse think of the Ruins at Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon?

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Historians, how many of you speak/ have fluency in languages relevant to your areas of study? How important would knowledge of such relevant languages be to you?

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The Incredible Shrinking Dénouement: what accounts for its changing size in drama and fiction? In the distant past it was usually a third or a fifth of the story, but nowadays it's just the last chapter / scene / page.

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So I read that the oldest form of boat ever recovered is as old as 8500+B.C.E. I’ve also read that aboriginals migrated to Australia from Africa between 50,000 to 70,000 years ago. My question is, how the hell did they get there?

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How much was slavery the cause of the civil war?

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I'm reading Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee. How does it hold up historically? Are there any critiques of it I could read?	18
When did the US Navy overtake the Royal Navy as the world's most powerful navy? Was it simply a numbers game or was it about equipment/doctrine?	18
How long has alphabetical order been a standard for cataloging? How do character-based languages organize data?	18
Everyday life in a city-state of Ancient Greece.	18
Nero AFTER the Great Fire of Rome	18
What did the Hopi, Pueblo and other indigenous groups that inhabited the four corners region in the time before contact with Anglos, but after the Anasazi collapse think of the Ruins at Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon?	17
Historians, how many of you speak/ have fluency in languages relevant to your areas of study? How important would knowledge of such relevant languages be to you?	17
The Incredible Shrinking Dénouement: what accounts for its changing size in drama and fiction? In the distant past it was usually a third or a fifth of the story, but nowadays it's just the last chapter / scene / page.	17
So I read that the oldest form of boat ever recovered is as old as 8500+B.C.E. I’ve also read that aboriginals migrated to Australia from Africa between 50,000 to 70,000 years ago. My question is, how the hell did they get there?	17
How much was slavery the cause of the civil war?	17