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Other than the run up to the Civil War and later KKK terrorism, was inter-party violence ever a regular part of electoral politics in the U.S. at the state/territory or national level?
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How did the world come to have a common culture of international diplomacy given that, for example, Eastern Asia had one or more long-time independent diplomatic traditions while Europe/West Asia/the Mediterranean had its own age old set of traditions & norms?
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In the early days of civilian and military rocketry was there a risk that a space exploration launch would be detected and mistaken for a military launch? How did the relevant powers keep each other in the loop?
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With written sources, we can interrogate the the author or scribe and their background, snoop out interpolations and refer to other written sources for context. What do we do for oral history? And other questions.
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Was there a way to insult a woman in the European middle ages (particularly around the 10th and 11th centuries) that *didn't* involve impugning her sex life?
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Why are compulsory voting laws so common in Latin America (although often without actual penalties or simply unenforced) when it's so uncommon elsewhere in the world?
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How, if at all, did early modern religious leaders and moralists, especially those in service of the state, attempt to excuse away the vices of their sovereigns? E.g., avarice, continual adultery, and, in the Ottoman case, systematic fratricide?
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Did ethnic identity play a major part in rulership and politics more broadly in Sahelian and subsaharan East Africa before colonization? If so, how did the British exploit existing norms when they arrived?
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Accountants and lawyers give advice but doctors give orders. How did physicians (and medical researchers), especially in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, get imbued with so much authority over their patients/subjects, who seemed to have almost zero choice in their own care?
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