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Today many thousands of citizen scientists (amateurs being crowdsourced under the guidance of professional academics) regularly contribute to various fields of science, sometimes in very important ways. Is there a role for "citizen historians" too?	49
How much of the corpus of letters from Western Roman emperors & other high officials that we have are truly "personal" vs the ones they consciously wrote/edited for publication?	49
Did the ancient Greeks (and Romans and other neighbors) have a concept of adolescence for girls and women?	48
How "mobile" did Soviet academics, especially those in the social sciences, find their degrees after the collapse of the USSR? Did most stay in or leave academia? Did most people find work in other countries? Did they join the new government's bureaucracy?	48
How did the idea of "being a proper man" (virtus) change between the Republic to the early/mid Principate? Would Scipio Africanus (or Cato) have had the same idea of what masculinity meant as Trajan generations later (or Marcus Aurelius even later)?	48
Did wealthy early 20th century antisemites (royals, magnates like Ford, etc.) attempt to rationalize the supposed power of the Jewish conspiracy with their own elevated positions "at the top the world"? If so, how'd they square those two things?	48
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?	47
How did the Jewish community of Thessaloniki react to the Greek population transfer into the city, the diminution of the city's Jewish identity, and the loss of their Muslim neighbors?	46
Where did Southern volunteers for the Union Army and Galvanized Yankees (Southern POWs who turned around and fought for the North) fall into the narrative of Lost Cause ideology in the decades after the Civil War?	45
The genocidal Yugoslav Wars & the country's violent breakup are often described as an inevitability held in check by the authoritarian President for Life Tito. But a decade passed between his death & the first Yugoslav War. Was secession inevitable? Why did the first war happen in 1991 & not 1980?	44

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