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What do professional historians think of Larry Siedentop's "Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism?"
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Is the movie Hidden Figures giving proper, not enough, or undue weight to the role of these black women in the early NASA programs?
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What sorts of minerals were mined in the Middle East and Asia around the 17/18th century? How would highly valuable minerals have been transported to Western Europe?
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Why is George Washington considered to be a great general? He led America's armies at an important time but what did he do that made him truly remarkable? I read the British army didn't even want him.
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In writings on the Celts, a few Classical authors reference Posidonius' Histories. Some authors cite Posidonius, while others certainly refer to that text but not explicitly. What sort of expectation was there in the Classical world towards acknowledgement of prior scholarship?
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