/u/screwyoushadowban's posts in /r/askhistorians
Can someone please explain the seemingly sudden 70s/80s American hangup with violence in kid's media, especially cartoons like GI Joe and Rambo (neither of whom actually ever killed anyone I think)? Hadn't Buck Rogers been shooting people since the 30s?
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How much did day to day life change for people on the coast of the Black Sea during the many back and forth transitions of power between Russia and the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century? How much did administration really change "on the ground"?
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What was the attitude of ancient Greeks towards studying "barbarian" languages, esp. those of powerful or culturally prestigious states like Persia or Egypt?
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Why did Louisiana's government abandon its endorsement of bilingual French-English education in favor of monolingual English education in 1921?
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The labor movement and Civil Rights era in the United States produced a broad and long-lasting legacy of music and art informed by progressive politics. Besides Confederate monuments were there popular explicitly segregationist and "pro-boss" artistic genres?
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To what degree were regular worship, church attendance, and "actual" practice of Catholicism (as opposed to merely self-identification and performative religion) gendered activities in Spain before and during the Civil War?
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Priests of the Middle Ages believed "pagan" soothsayers & witches had some sort of power to them, even if it was evil, feeble, & illusory. Did priests of the colonial period believe that indigenous magic users did too?
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What were common hobbies for urbanites in the last few decades of Imperial Russia? In what way were they gendered? What would happen to someone socially if they participated in a hobby that didn't match their assigned gender role?
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