/u/kingoftheplastics's posts in /r/AskHistorians
Abraham Lincoln reportedly expressed a desire to visit the Holy Land prior to his assassination. How easy (or not) would it have been for him to do so as a sitting or former President of the United States? What were Ottoman-American relations like in the late 19th century, if they existed at all?
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I’m a white baseball fan in Kansas City in the 1950s. Am I aware of the existence of the Negro League’s Kansas City Monarchs, and is it likely that I would have any interest in them?
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In Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Jurgis makes reference to one of the corrupt associates of a party boss being a "tenpin-setter" by occupation. Was bowling considered a "lowbrow" or "vice" activity in turn of the century America, and if so, how did that perception evolve and change?
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