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Bobby Kennedy was confirmed as Attorney General in 1961. The FBI began wiretapping Martin Luther King’s house in 1963. Considering the FBI is subordinate to the AG, what role, if any, did he play in the approval of such an investigation?

374 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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What was the relationship between knight and horse?

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I've heard that Mao Zedong, in order to combat drug addiction in China, gave addicts the option of rehab or death. Is this true? If so, how successful was it? And why?

323 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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I’m glad we as a society have moved to a point where these guys hanging outside a high school is no longer normalized

314 upvotes • r/buffy

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Kim Syok’osu, a Korean woman that converted to Christianity, said “We Choson women lived under the oppression of men for thousands of years without having our own names. . . . For fifty years, I lived without a name” What was going on in Choson Korea? Did women really not have names?

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The Jews of Kaifeng had been in China since the Song Dynasty. How did European missionaries and travelers react to this “discovery” when West began its first sustained, direct contact with China?

286 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Was the West African slave trade really the benign, domestic foil to American chattel slavery it’s sometimes portrayed to be?

272 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Was Dungeons and Dragons popular behind the Iron Curtain in countries like Poland, East Germany, and the Soviet Union? Or was it purely a Western phenomenon?

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How did former SS officers and soldiers, the ones who weren’t tried and sent to prison or death, reintegrate into the general population? I can imagine that having a job 24/7 that required you to kill men, women, and children daily would leave some after effects.

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Many dictatorships (Gaddafi, Tito, Hussein, Assad) end up devolving into violence and chaos in response to the leadership vaccum that occurs when the dictator either grows incredibly or dies. Why then did the dictatorships of Spain and South Korea not do the same when their dictators died?

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Bobby Kennedy was confirmed as Attorney General in 1961. The FBI began wiretapping Martin Luther King’s house in 1963. Considering the FBI is subordinate to the AG, what role, if any, did he play in the approval of such an investigation?	374	AskHistorians
What was the relationship between knight and horse?	330	AskHistorians
I've heard that Mao Zedong, in order to combat drug addiction in China, gave addicts the option of rehab or death. Is this true? If so, how successful was it? And why?	323	AskHistorians
I’m glad we as a society have moved to a point where these guys hanging outside a high school is no longer normalized	314	buffy
Kim Syok’osu, a Korean woman that converted to Christianity, said “We Choson women lived under the oppression of men for thousands of years without having our own names. . . . For fifty years, I lived without a name” What was going on in Choson Korea? Did women really not have names?	302	AskHistorians
The Jews of Kaifeng had been in China since the Song Dynasty. How did European missionaries and travelers react to this “discovery” when West began its first sustained, direct contact with China?	286	AskHistorians
Was the West African slave trade really the benign, domestic foil to American chattel slavery it’s sometimes portrayed to be?	272	AskHistorians
Was Dungeons and Dragons popular behind the Iron Curtain in countries like Poland, East Germany, and the Soviet Union? Or was it purely a Western phenomenon?	266	AskHistorians
How did former SS officers and soldiers, the ones who weren’t tried and sent to prison or death, reintegrate into the general population? I can imagine that having a job 24/7 that required you to kill men, women, and children daily would leave some after effects.	263	AskHistorians
Many dictatorships (Gaddafi, Tito, Hussein, Assad) end up devolving into violence and chaos in response to the leadership vaccum that occurs when the dictator either grows incredibly or dies. Why then did the dictatorships of Spain and South Korea not do the same when their dictators died?	247	AskHistorians