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Just how bad were American in-patient psychiatric hospitals in the late 1950s to early 70s? And how much did the professional perspective differ from the public perspective?	13
When did childbirth become medicalized in North America? What kind of language was used to distinguish or exclude traditional midwifery from the practice of medicine?	13
Why does almost all European "traditional" dress/national costume seem to be of commoners & peasants? Much of the celebrated dress I've seen elsewhere in the world is stuff historically worn by both social elites & others, that of the elites alone, expensive ceremonial clothing, etc.	13
Mesopotamia & the Levant are home to numerous historically persecuted ethnoreligious groups: Alawis, Druze, Mandaeans, Samaritans, etc. But only Jews had a pan-Eurasian & N. African diaspora prior to the modern period. What set them apart?	13
How did modern policing develop in Japan and Korea? Did Japanese/Korean police forces adopt late 19th/early 20th c. European practices by large degrees or did they mostly refine and update their own traditions, practices, and norms?	13
How did the depiction of religion on film, stage, and television change after the rapid growth of Christianity in South Korea from the mid 20th century onward?	12
How visible (and audible) was women's public life in the central to eastern Mediterranean and nearby inland areas in the early modern period, especially among elite and/or urban women?	12
When did Europeans begin applying the word "empire" to states outside the Roman/Catholic/Orthodox traditions (e.g. the Ottoman Empire)? How did "empire" change from a highly exclusive (Roman/Christian) term to a broad political category?	12
What was the role of shame and cajoling in progressive (by the contemporary definition of the word) rhetoric in the early 20th century through the Civil Rights era?	12
In the 1990s U.S. where I grew up ballet (& to some extent dance in general) was thought of as a hobby "just for girls". To what extent was dance (classical dance, ballet specifically) a heavily-gendered activity in the U.S. in the 1890s through the mid 20th century?	12

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