/u/screwyoushadowban's posts

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When did sumo wrestling become so conservative?	53	AskHistorians
How important was the Nation of Islam and its unique understanding of Islam and history to the shaping of Americans' perception of Muslims in the late 1950s to 60s? If a white American in 1960 for example heard the term "Muslim", how likely is it they would imagine an NOI member?	50	AskHistorians
Today many thousands of citizen scientists (amateurs being crowdsourced under the guidance of professional academics) regularly contribute to various fields of science, sometimes in very important ways. Is there a role for "citizen historians" too?	49	AskHistorians
How much of the corpus of letters from Western Roman emperors & other high officials that we have are truly "personal" vs the ones they consciously wrote/edited for publication?	49	AskHistorians
Did the ancient Greeks (and Romans and other neighbors) have a concept of adolescence for girls and women?	48	AskHistorians
How "mobile" did Soviet academics, especially those in the social sciences, find their degrees after the collapse of the USSR? Did most stay in or leave academia? Did most people find work in other countries? Did they join the new government's bureaucracy?	48	AskHistorians
How did the idea of "being a proper man" (virtus) change between the Republic to the early/mid Principate? Would Scipio Africanus (or Cato) have had the same idea of what masculinity meant as Trajan generations later (or Marcus Aurelius even later)?	48	AskHistorians
Did wealthy early 20th century antisemites (royals, magnates like Ford, etc.) attempt to rationalize the supposed power of the Jewish conspiracy with their own elevated positions "at the top the world"? If so, how'd they square those two things?	48	AskHistorians
How did indigenous American religious life in the U.S. change between the late 1950s and 90s? Did the emergence of national-level Native American activism coincide with a reassessment of the role of Christianity/non-native religion in indigenous life and history?	47	AskHistorians
How did the Jewish community of Thessaloniki react to the Greek population transfer into the city, the diminution of the city's Jewish identity, and the loss of their Muslim neighbors?	46	AskHistorians

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