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Was there any backlash from religious communities when the U.S. Senate unanimously ratified the Treaty of Tripoli (1797) which included the phrase "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"?

150 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Why has Washington D.C. historically had such relatively high poverty and crime levels?

100 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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If the huge increase in population growth starting in the 1940s is because of the Green Revolution increasing food supplies, why is population growth highest where food is scarce and people are starving?

49 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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How accurate is Noam Chomsky's assessment of the Vietnam War in "Manufacturing Consent"?

47 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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How are the ideas presented in Merlin Stone's "When God Was a Woman" viewed by mainstream historians?

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What specific events/policies of the late Soviet government led to the food shortages and empty grocery stores?

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How plausible is the prediction that average human intelligence will decline since (/if) intelligence is inversely correlated to birth rate? (i.e. the Idiocracy premise)

11 upvotes • r/askscience

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Historically, how have party leaders handled the losing candidate in landslide U.S. presidential elections? Were there always calls for them to step down in the months before?

7 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Have US presidents always been held personally responsible by the public for natural disaster relief/response? If not, when and why did this begin?

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When and how did the term "racism" come to mean "prejudice based on skin color" to some people, and "skin-color prejudice plus institutional power imbalance" to others?

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Was there any backlash from religious communities when the U.S. Senate unanimously ratified the Treaty of Tripoli (1797) which included the phrase "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"?	150	AskHistorians
Why has Washington D.C. historically had such relatively high poverty and crime levels?	100	AskHistorians
If the huge increase in population growth starting in the 1940s is because of the Green Revolution increasing food supplies, why is population growth highest where food is scarce and people are starving?	49	AskHistorians
How accurate is Noam Chomsky's assessment of the Vietnam War in "Manufacturing Consent"?	47	AskHistorians
How are the ideas presented in Merlin Stone's "When God Was a Woman" viewed by mainstream historians?	13	AskHistorians
What specific events/policies of the late Soviet government led to the food shortages and empty grocery stores?	11	AskHistorians
How plausible is the prediction that average human intelligence will decline since (/if) intelligence is inversely correlated to birth rate? (i.e. the Idiocracy premise)	11	askscience
Historically, how have party leaders handled the losing candidate in landslide U.S. presidential elections? Were there always calls for them to step down in the months before?	7	AskHistorians
Have US presidents always been held personally responsible by the public for natural disaster relief/response? If not, when and why did this begin?	7	AskHistorians
When and how did the term "racism" come to mean "prejudice based on skin color" to some people, and "skin-color prejudice plus institutional power imbalance" to others?	6	AskHistorians