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What was the Jefferson administration’s response to the Haitian Revolution? I’ve heard mixed responses. Some say it wanted to quash it, others say it supported it in principle but had to deal with realpolitik of the time. Which is true?

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After the death of Joseph Stalin, were there any reforms in the Soviet government to prevent somebody like him from amassing power great enough to unleash something like The Great Terror?

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What were relations like between the Marxist Derg of Ethiopia and Ethiopia’s Jewish population?

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Why were the Mapuche people able to resist Spanish invasion for nearly 300 years?

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In 1924, at the height Jim Crow Laws and immigration quotas, the Indian Citizenship Act was passed in Congress. How did expanding the voting base to more nonwhite citizens happen in such an environment?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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Did any Communist countries have something akin to the “Sexual Revolution” the West had in the 60’s and 70’s?

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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?

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What was the Jefferson administration’s response to the Haitian Revolution? I’ve heard mixed responses. Some say it wanted to quash it, others say it supported it in principle but had to deal with realpolitik of the time. Which is true?	77	AskHistorians
After the death of Joseph Stalin, were there any reforms in the Soviet government to prevent somebody like him from amassing power great enough to unleash something like The Great Terror?	76	AskHistorians
What were relations like between the Marxist Derg of Ethiopia and Ethiopia’s Jewish population?	69	AskHistorians
Why were the Mapuche people able to resist Spanish invasion for nearly 300 years?	68	AskHistorians
In 1924, at the height Jim Crow Laws and immigration quotas, the Indian Citizenship Act was passed in Congress. How did expanding the voting base to more nonwhite citizens happen in such an environment?	67	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians
Did any Communist countries have something akin to the “Sexual Revolution” the West had in the 60’s and 70’s?	60	AskHistorians
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	AskHistorians