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Did late 19th century voters overall care about foreign policy when making election choices, or were concepts like the "Great Game" or "The Sick Man of Europe" we learn about in grade school now solely the domain of small circles of professionals, wonks and the intellgentsia?

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How did the popular Christian image of heaven change between the 18th and late 19th centuries?

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Was Hitler's model of government organization, with multiple inefficient, redundant and competing agencies, a form of "coup-proofing" like that undertaken by modern authoritarian states, or was it really just about his belief in competition/"survival of the fittest"?

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What kinds of challenges did historians in and of Spain face when trying to do work in the 80s-90s, given the political avoidance of the Civil War as a topic there and the fact that the Francoists and Fascists never actually went away?

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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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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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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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When nationalism was developing in Early Modern Scandinavia, where did the Sami fit in?

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Did late 19th century voters overall care about foreign policy when making election choices, or were concepts like the "Great Game" or "The Sick Man of Europe" we learn about in grade school now solely the domain of small circles of professionals, wonks and the intellgentsia?	27	AskHistorians
How did the popular Christian image of heaven change between the 18th and late 19th centuries?	27	AskHistorians
Was Hitler's model of government organization, with multiple inefficient, redundant and competing agencies, a form of "coup-proofing" like that undertaken by modern authoritarian states, or was it really just about his belief in competition/"survival of the fittest"?	26	AskHistorians
What kinds of challenges did historians in and of Spain face when trying to do work in the 80s-90s, given the political avoidance of the Civil War as a topic there and the fact that the Francoists and Fascists never actually went away?	26	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?	26	AskHistorians
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"?	24	AskHistorians
What was the attitude of ancient Greeks towards studying "barbarian" languages, esp. those of powerful or culturally prestigious states like Persia or Egypt?	24	AskHistorians
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?	22	AskHistorians
Why did Louisiana's government abandon its endorsement of bilingual French-English education in favor of monolingual English education in 1921?	22	AskHistorians
When nationalism was developing in Early Modern Scandinavia, where did the Sami fit in?	22	AskHistorians