/u/screwyoushadowban's posts

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During the Cold War, why didn't Aeroflot/Soviet civil aviation learn from the safety mistakes of other countries' airlines, the way other countries for the most part seemed to learn from each other? Was there a lack of access? Or a lack of interest?	4	AskHistorians
What was the state of German intelligence in neutral European countries during WWII? Did they know that officially neutral countries like Ireland, Portugal, and Sweden were helping the Allies (while sometimes also helping the Germans)? Did they try to undermine or reduce pro-Allied efforts?	4	AskHistorians
How did the American and European image of soldiers change from "potentially dangerous scoundrels" in the late medieval/early modern period to "our boys" in the late 19th/early 20th centuries and beyond?	4	AskHistorians
Was the time period during and after the American Revolution perceived, whether by patriots, loyalists, in-betweeners, or indigenous people, as a time of great lawlessness and chaos? I don't remember this being emphasized as a kid.	4	AskHistorians
How did the proliferation of American cowboy imagery on stage and early film affect the fashions and self-depiction of wranglers in other parts of the world with their own horse-borne cattleman traditions? Did Australian and Spanish and Russian drovers/ranch-hands start acting like American cowboys?	4	AskHistorians
Do we know how Seneca's "De Ira" (On Anger) was received by the Roman aristocratic public? Why did he write it when he did? Was Rome in Seneca's age more angry than it had been in the past?	4	AskHistorians
What's the place of the storyteller when historians record oral history, particularly in studies of historically under/misrepresented communities? Are they/their background analyzed/interrogated the way long dead authors of textual sources are?	4	AskHistorians
What was the role of violence and the potential for violence in medieval and Renaissance-era European notions of masculinity? Was getting in a couple brawls a boyhood rite of passage?	4	AskHistorians
What do we know about Bronze Age Minoan, Mycenaean, etc. textile dyes? Historical reenactment people & old "ancient arms & armor" artists seem fond of red (helmet plumes, cloth backing for armor, etc.). Is this based on material or artistic evidence or just a convention?	4	AskHistorians
How did Bronze Age archaeology of the late 19th century and earliest 20th intersect with nationalism and ethnocentrism, especially on the "grand scale" (i.e. the Minoans being "claimed" by Europeans and retrojecting European-ness into the prehistoric past)?	4	AskHistorians

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