/u/edwardtaughtme's posts in /r/askhistorians
Prior to/At the time of the OJ Simpson trial, what was public perception of the quality of policing and prosecution in the USA?
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[Crime & Punishment] Prior to/At the time of the OJ Simpson trial, what was public perception of the quality of policing and prosecution in the USA?
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[Crime & Punishment] In the USA, how was Prohibition perceived at the time the Controlled Substances Act was proposed?
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[Crime & Punishment] To what extent was FDR connected to J. Edgar Hoover's seizure and abuses of power?
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Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, and Robert Hunter were all MKULtra test subjects, Hunter specifically volunteering in the hopes it would enhance his creative abilities - what were the San Francisco recruiters doing that was so attractive to writers?
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How and when did the atomic bomb come to be seen as categorically different weapon and/or paradigm shift in warfare? I know that some believe that this occurred *after* the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, e.g., Michael Gordin, but what's the consensus and evidence?
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Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, and Robert Hunter were all MKULtra test subjects at the Stanford test site, Hunter specifically volunteering in the hopes it would enhance his creative abilities - how did this happen?
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60 Minutes claims that the USA DOD "...looking to cut costs, urged defense companies to merge" in 1993. Is this accurate? What was happening in military equipment acquisitions at the time?
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