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How do we reconcile a desire to avoid presentism with a moral desire to recognise that historical subjects suffered from domestic abuse and child sex abuse?

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What is the current state of study/consensus around druids?

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To what degree is the idea that WWII-era black GIs met a less racist environment than at home justified?

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did the medieval Christian world perceive the Crusades as a set of linked conflicts? Did the Muslim world?

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How do we reconcile a desire to avoid presentism with a moral desire to recognise that historical subjects suffered from domestic abuse and child sex abuse?	208
What is the current state of study/consensus around druids?	35
To what degree is the idea that WWII-era black GIs met a less racist environment than at home justified?	32
did the medieval Christian world perceive the Crusades as a set of linked conflicts? Did the Muslim world?	24