/u/screwyoushadowban's posts

Title	Upvotes	Subreddit
Where did Southern volunteers for the Union Army and Galvanized Yankees (Southern POWs who turned around and fought for the North) fall into the narrative of Lost Cause ideology in the decades after the Civil War?	45	AskHistorians
The genocidal Yugoslav Wars & the country's violent breakup are often described as an inevitability held in check by the authoritarian President for Life Tito. But a decade passed between his death & the first Yugoslav War. Was secession inevitable? Why did the first war happen in 1991 & not 1980?	44	AskHistorians
How did "publish or die"/"publish or perish" develop? Were academics in 1900 or 1950 under the same publishing pressures they've been in the past few decades? Or were they allowed to teach & then publish at their own pace?	43	AskHistorians
I've come across Western men's (sometimes fantastical and obviously 2nd or 3rd hand) accounts of women in the Ottoman Empire and the harem system. Do we have any examples of Western women's accounts of Ottoman women? Or of elite Ottoman women's accounts of Westerners?	42	AskHistorians
Is the modern graduate thesis a descendant of the medieval and early modern guild "masterpiece" and a callback to the European university's roots as a trade guild for academics, or a completely independent development?	41	AskHistorians
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?	40	AskHistorians
Is a railgun chamber sealed up tight like a traditional firearm? If it is, does negative atmospheric pressure develop behind the projectile as it moves down the barrel? If it does, does it represent a problem or velocity limitation that has to be dealt with somehow? If so, how?	40	askscience
Was Hitler's model of government organization, with multiple inefficient, redundant and competing agencies, a form of "coup-proofing" like that undertaken by modern authoritarian states, or was it really just about his belief in competition/"survival of the fittest"?	38	AskHistorians
Did Romans think Rome would last forever? Or did they think it likely/inevitable that they would eventually decline or be conquered by someone else? And did eschatological thinking exist in Rome before the Christian era?	37	AskHistorians
How far up the social/administrative ladder did WWI propagandization and information suppression go? Were decision makers getting accurate intelligence? I.e. were governments just lying to the people or also lying to themselves?	37	AskHistorians

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