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How did the depiction of religion on film, stage, and television change after the rapid growth of Christianity in South Korea from the mid 20th century onward?
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Was there any significant contribution to the sciences (especially in biology or the social sciences) of Fascist (specifically Nazi) and para-Fascist figures in the 30s and 40s that later proved questionable? Did any scientific fields/sub-fields undergo "de-Nazification" after the War?
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Did other Allied countries actively whitewash/downplay the contribution of colonial or non-white soldiers during/after WWII the way the French did?
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Did the later Republican and Imperial Romans feel they had a right or destiny to conquer, like Manifest Destiny for the Mediterranean, or did the conquests kind of just... happen a bunch of times?
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What's the history of the commercialization of diet fads in the United States? Specifically, when did commercialized diets start being marketed specifically to men or specifically to women?
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Were most of the big players in organized crime during prohibition part of long-standing pre-Volstead crime networks or were many "new men" (and women), especially outside of Chicago/New York?
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What did the "mental map" in late antiquity/early middle ages Persia & South Asia look like, especially as it relates to the state? Where was the center of the world? Did the state have borders? Or was it a city & its subordinate cities? Something else? Could a state even be placed clearly on a map?
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What was the status of Russians and other Slavic peoples in the racial imagination of early 20th century America and more broadly "the West"? General Patton seems fond of describing Russian people as "degenerate Asiatics".
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How did the United Farm Workers go from a multi-ethnic social/labor organization to an outwardly Chicano/Mexican/Mexican-American organization that, at least in the American Southwest middle school education I got, is remembered almost solely for racial justice/civil rights?
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