/u/screwyoushadowban's posts

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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?	5	AskHistorians
When and why did states start taking on the burden of training professionals? It seems that for much of the medieval and early modern period every spy was just a recruited trader/traveler, every sailor a recruited fisherman, every civic leader just a recruited aristocrat.	5	AskHistorians
What was the interaction of strategists and foreign policy planners with professional historians in the 2nd half of the 20th century?	5	AskHistorians
Did the rise of right-wing extremism in the 1990s' U.S. have any parallels in Canada? Was there a significant Canadian cultural or law enforcement response to the Oklahoma City bombing towards their own domestic Christian or right-wing fringe groups?	5	AskHistorians
I've heard that for Republican-Early Imperial Roman elites their auctoritas or dignitas was far more valuable to them than their actual physical wealth. Did their business and social behaviors actually reflect this or was it more of a literary/social ideal they just paid lip service to?	5	AskHistorians
Were the literati of central & east Asian cultures (China, Japan, Persia, the Mughals, & their neighbors) from the late medieval to early modern periods as pessimistic about the future as Europeans seemed to be?	5	AskHistorians
The genocidal Yugoslav Wars & the country's violent breakup are often described as an inevitability held in check by the authoritarian rule of Josip 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?	5	AskHistorians
What was court recording like before the modern stenograph? Were people just doing manual shorthand? Do modern historians ever try to decipher scribbly shorthand from 300 year old court cases?	5	AskHistorians
Today in much of the U.S. there's a classist view of transportation: public transport is often thought of as "for poor people & students". Was this true in the past too? Were carriages only for rich people? Were early streetcars only rich & middle class people transport while poor people walked?	5	AskHistorians
In the 1990s U.S. where I grew up ballet (& to some extent dance in general) was thought of as a hobby "just for girls". To what extent was dance (classical dance, ballet specifically) a heavily-gendered activity in the U.S. in the 1890s through the mid 20th century?	5	AskHistorians

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