askhistorians

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Do historians interrogate "plain, just the facts" data like statistics differently than other kinds of written sources? When can you "trust" statistical data & when not, esp. in the context of endemic prejudices (example within)?	1
What did interstate cooperation between law enforcement agencies look like the United States before prohibition? Did it exist at all? What was the role of the FBI's predecessor organizations?	1
Did any European countries attempt to standardize equipment with their allies prior to the mid-20th century like NATO/the Warsaw Pact countries did?	1
How widespread was the belief in angels, djinn, etc. among Muslims in Anatolia, Europe and the Levant in the mid 19th to mid 20th centuries? Did belief in these beings correlate at all with the rise of European (somewhat broadly secular) Modernism?	1
What was life like for black people in Dublin or Liverpool (and nearby places) at the turn of the 20th century? How were black people treated in working-class communities?	1
Why were 20th century states seemingly so comfortable using chemical weapons in either flagrant or "grey zone" violation of international protocols while the biological & nuclear weapons taboos remained more or less unquestioned?	1
Did ancient Mediterraneans read history for entertainment? Did they distinguish between "pop" history and "proper" history? Were certain fields (if they recognized history as having fields) especially popular with the wider public, like military history is today?	1
In the late middle ages and early modern period many thousands of Christians and Muslims were enslaved and then ransomed by corsairs of the opposite faith. Was there any anxiety in Christian lands about recently ransomed Christians (or Jews) being crypto-Muslims/"turning Turk"?	1
In early 19th & 20th century America & Europe: could a woman's job or hobbies threaten her femininity in the social sense? Like how a man's choices could get him labeled "unmanly"/"less than a man". What would happen if a woman wanted to play rugby or American football?	1
Did Europeans in Mid Antiquity>Earliest Middle Ages believe their arms, armor, and tools to be fundamentally superior to those of the Heroic/Bronze Ages/early Classical period the way DnD/Civilization/RPG-influenced moderns do?	1

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