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One of my professors showed me a picture today of Afghani Mujahideen members in the White House meeting with President Reagan. Today, this would be political suicide. What were the common perceptions of Muslims and Islam among the majority of Americans in the 80s?

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What was life like for slaves who escaped from the U.S. into Canada?

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Did the printing press cause any major shifts in monastic life in Europe?

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[Literature] I was listening to an episode of the BBC's In Our Time Podcast about the 12th Century Renaissance. One of the presenters said that this was the first time since the Classical period that fiction was written in Europe. What exactly does that mean?

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I recently learned that Alessandro de' Medici might have been an illegitimate child who's mother was a black slave. If this was the case, would there have been any major objection to Alessandro being Duke of Florence, either due to his race or illegitimacy?

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Where are the Jewish restaurants?

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How open to women was US academia in the early/mid 20th Century

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At the outset of the Civil War, how did news of it's happening spread among enslaved people?

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When/why did higher education in America become internationally renowned?

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When/why did the serial publication of novels (at least in anglophone literature) go out of fashion?

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One of my professors showed me a picture today of Afghani Mujahideen members in the White House meeting with President Reagan. Today, this would be political suicide. What were the common perceptions of Muslims and Islam among the majority of Americans in the 80s?	6	AskHistorians
What was life like for slaves who escaped from the U.S. into Canada?	6	AskHistorians
Did the printing press cause any major shifts in monastic life in Europe?	5	AskHistorians
[Literature] I was listening to an episode of the BBC's In Our Time Podcast about the 12th Century Renaissance. One of the presenters said that this was the first time since the Classical period that fiction was written in Europe. What exactly does that mean?	5	AskHistorians
I recently learned that Alessandro de' Medici might have been an illegitimate child who's mother was a black slave. If this was the case, would there have been any major objection to Alessandro being Duke of Florence, either due to his race or illegitimacy?	4	AskHistorians
Where are the Jewish restaurants?	3	AskHistorians
How open to women was US academia in the early/mid 20th Century	3	AskHistorians
At the outset of the Civil War, how did news of it's happening spread among enslaved people?	3	AskHistorians
When/why did higher education in America become internationally renowned?	2	AskHistorians
When/why did the serial publication of novels (at least in anglophone literature) go out of fashion?	2	AskHistorians