/u/screwyoushadowban's posts
How were German Texans thought about and treated in Texas the generation or so post-Civil War given that they had largely been pro-Union and faced Confederate violence because of it?
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What was life like for black people in Dublin or Liverpool (and nearby places) at the turn of the 20th century? How were black people treated in working-class communities?
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Why did Seneca write De Ira (On Anger) when he did? Did Romans perceive Rome (or its politics or its culture specifically) as angrier in the 1st century than it had been before? If so, did other people address the "problem of anger"?
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Who would've been a factory worker in 19th century Europe's arms industry? Would the machinists all be adult men? Would women seek out or be sought out for work in the arms industry at all? Were children employed (for small parts manufacture maybe)?
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Modern Western (or at least American) aesthetics idealizes/fetishes young bodies over old ones, and young female bodies over young male bodies*. Was this the case in ancient Mediterranean art and poetry as well?
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How influential was German scholarship in the social sciences (esp. Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistics, Psychology) from the 1920s to 1945? How politicized was it? Was there a postwar reassessment of these fields for ideological biases?
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I tried asking this for AH Day of the Dead, but no luck: what was the daily life of a financial official or bureaucrat like in the later(ish) Roman Republic?
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Who was healthier: a rich city-dweller in 1st century Europe or a rich a city-dweller in 11th century Europe? What about a *poor* city-dweller in 1st century Europe compared to a *poor* a city-dweller in 11th century Europe?
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Today in the United States if an individual commits a public act of violence (mass murder, political assassination), in the absence of other evidence, pop culture and journalism often rationalizes it as mental illness. What was the "easy" rationalization in 1960 (or 1963)? What about 1910? Or 1860?
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