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It seems that the United States Government from 1789-1933 always intervened in the economy in some way (it’s just that some interventions have actually been for the few instead of the many). Is it a myth that the pre-New Deal government ever had a laissez-faire economic policy?	421
I remember my high school history textbook The American Pageant said that regarding the attitudes of whites toward African Americans before the Civil War, "In the North they would love the race and hate the individual, and in the South they'd love the individual but hate the race."	222
How offensive would Lenny Bruce's comedy have been to the average middle American person in the 1950s/1960s?	29
How did Alexander Hamilton feel about the French Revolution?	15
Did any American WW2 veterans support desegregation after the war because they had seen the horrors of the Holocaust?	8
Why was W.E.B Du Bois’ book “Black Reconstruction” not accepted by mainstream academia of the time?	8
I’ve been learning more about Ulysses S. Grant through HW Brands and Ron Chernow. Would Grant be considered in modern terms, a recovering alcoholic?	8
I saw a Thomas Nast cartoon supporting the Civil Rights Act of 1875, was Nast really that far ahead of his time?	5
Do we have any historical records to answer the question: whether the Framers of the US Constitution intended that document mainly as a way to protect the status quo as it existed in 1787, or if they thought rights as something that can best be protected by allowing for cultural and social changes?	4
Was the (American) Whig Party actually closer to Jeffersonian Republicanism than the Jacksonian Democrats?	3

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