/u/lcnielsen's posts
Billy Graham was recorded as making extremely antisemitic comments to Nixon in 1972, but this tape was only released in 2002. What evidence existed of Graham's antisemitism before this? How common was this degree of antisemitism among Southern Evangelicals of his generation?
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The head of a South Indian university recently claimed Ancient India had stem cell technology and aviation, citing the Mahabharata. What's the origin of this recurring, bizarre notion of "hi-tech Ancient India"? How recent is it?
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What characterized "Peronism"? Was it socialist, fascist, distinctly South American, distinctly Argentinian, part of a broader phenomenon?
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I have only the vaguest understanding of Aboriginal Australians. What was their traditional social organization like? Did they have larger settled polities?
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The Gallipoli campaign is almost always discussed in terms of British failures at various levels, but what were the Ottoman successes that led to the outcome?
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Are there better contextualizations of the Red Army purges in the 1930's than "Stalin was paranoid"?
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The Kingdom of Kongo was by all accounts a powerful 15th century polity. What did their social hierarchy and administration look like? What were the most important parts of their economy? How did the triangle trade change these things?
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