AskHistorians

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George Wallace the man famous for saying, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.”, would later win the 1982 Alabama gubernatorial race with a whopping 90% of the black vote. How did that happen?	63
For 30+ years the capital and political center of West Germany was Bonn. How did it handle the loss of prestige, value, and importance after reunification and Berlin’s return as capital?	61
World War Two is known in popularly portrayed in Western Cinema as being primarily fought by white men, yet it had huge populations of Colonial soldiers fighting on the side of Great Britain and France. How were those veterans treated upon return to their homeland?	61
Did any Communist countries have something akin to the “Sexual Revolution” the West had in the 60’s and 70’s?	60
Translating a book, like the Bible, from a Western European Language, like English, to Mandarin, a language that it has no shared linguistic heritage with must have been incredibly hard. Do we have any records of how early Europeans translators went about this?	60
The slave trade was an established institution throughout much of West Africa well into the 20th century, so what do we know about the men who profited from it? What do we know about slave owners in Africa?	59
How soon after the "discovery" and colonization of Australia do observers notice the development of a distinct accent?	57
Andrew Johnson’s grandfather William was reportedly “sold out at a sheriff’s sale” for his labor. How unusual was this for the time? Were white men often sold for their labor?	53
How did the respective German and Russian societies deal with the mass amounts of rape and sexual assault during World War II after the the war was over?	52
One of my professors said that the gay rights movement in America would not of happened without the massive amount of mobilization and movement of people during World War II. How accurate is this claim?	52

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