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When Joe Medicine Crow joined the U.S. Army at the beginning of World War II, he had earned a masters degree and nearly competed a Ph.D in anthropology. He was enlisted as a private, not a 2nd Lieutenant. I thought most people who had completed a college degree were selected for officer training?

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What is the academic opinion of Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi? Are there any scholarly criticisms?

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Are there any U.S. Presidents, since the founding of the Republic, for whom we have mainstream, historically accepted consensus, were elected through voting fraud or procedural chicanery?

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Did pre-Columbian native Americans have a widely recognized system of money?

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To what extent, if any, was the Bay of Pigs invasion an attempt by the leadership of the Pentagon and CIA to entrap and bind the Kennedy administration into committing U.S. forces to overthrow Castro?

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When Joe Medicine Crow joined the U.S. Army at the beginning of World War II, he had earned a masters degree and nearly competed a Ph.D in anthropology. He was enlisted as a private, not a 2nd Lieutenant. I thought most people who had completed a college degree were selected for officer training?	214	AskHistorians
What is the academic opinion of Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi? Are there any scholarly criticisms?	12	AskHistorians
Are there any U.S. Presidents, since the founding of the Republic, for whom we have mainstream, historically accepted consensus, were elected through voting fraud or procedural chicanery?	11	AskHistorians
Did pre-Columbian native Americans have a widely recognized system of money?	7	AskHistorians
To what extent, if any, was the Bay of Pigs invasion an attempt by the leadership of the Pentagon and CIA to entrap and bind the Kennedy administration into committing U.S. forces to overthrow Castro?	5	AskHistorians