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Was there an gendered aspect to early modern European and colonial American fears of "turning Turk" and "going Native"? Was there particular paranoia about women in particular adopting the customs of "alien" peoples?	9
How was Ancient Rome's wealth tax actually assessed? Was the same publican/official who profited from the tax also the guy who decided how much your property was worth? Could wealthier Romans litigate their assessments down the way wealthier people do today? What about poorer Romans?	9
What would have been considered the "de rigeur" reading list for someone involved in military affairs or strategy in 19th century Europe? How would it have differed from an American officer?	9
In popular Russian cultural memory today Лихие 90-е (likhie devyanostye/the hard 90s) is discussed as an almost apocalyptic era of decline. But did Russians of the time actually perceive it as such, especially compared to the crises of the late Soviet Union?	9
How, if at all, did contact with the West influence 19th and 20th century historiography in East Asia (esp. Korea, Qing and post-Revolution China, Japan)? What independent schools of formal historical study existed in these places before extensive Western contact? And are they still relevant today?	9
How did indigenous American religious life in the U.S. change between the late 1950s and 90s? Did the emergence of national-level Native American activism coincide with a reassessment of the role of Christianity/non-native religion in indigenous life and history?	8
Why did France end conscription in 1996, and how did it affect the role of the previously existing professional units of the military, especially the French Foreign Legion?	8
How did upper-class continental Europeans of the Napoleonic Era judge the Scots? Did they consider them European? White? Civilized or not (quite)? And did they mistakenly assume that the culture and imagery of the Highlands represented the whole country?	8
Did the later Eastern Romans retain the suspicion of nominal kingship and the facade of republicanism of the earlier Romans? Would a Roman basileus in the early-High Middle Ages spit out his wine if a Latin called him a rex? What if the Latin humbly slapped imperator to the end of it?	8
It's the 19th century American frontier. My mixed race family would like to educate our children in the (presumably whites-only) Territory or County-funded schoolhouse and we're on very good terms with our neighbors. Can we get away with it?	8

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