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What was the reaction of Iranian thinkers & planners to the Arab Nationalist movement forming to their west? How did their attitudes change between the earliest appearance of Arab Nationalism through the mid 1900s?
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The fate of the souls of one's family and friends seems to have been a concern of many religious 19th century Americans. How would a pious abolitionist contend with the idea of their slave-owning recent ancestors (parents?) going to Hell?
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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?
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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?
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1050 CE: I'm a countryside farmer in what is now eastern France (Burgundy). Who do I consider a foreigner? Is a Christian in Dijon a foreigner? What about a Jew in Dijon? Or either in Paris? Is a guy in the next valley a foreigner? How does a foreigner become "one of ours?"
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Pop culture sometimes preemptively declares the 21st century as "China's century". Which country (or countries) did commentators in 1880, 1900, or 1920 predict would be the economic, cultural and political powerhouse(s) of the 20th?
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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?
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"Science advances one funeral at a time." Is this an accurate statement for major scientific paradigm shifts of the mid 19th to late 20th centuries? Did modern accepted theories "win over" scientists from competing models, or did the old models' advocates just die?
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The labor movement and Civil Rights era in the United States produced a broad and long-lasting legacy of music and art informed by progressive politics. Besides Confederate monuments were there popular explicitly segregationist and "pro-boss" artistic genres?
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