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Are you getting excited about the AskHistorians 2021 Digital Conference? We sure are!

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You're invited to a live roundtable next week - All Women Have a Past: Reconstructing Women in History

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Next week is the AskHistorians Digital Conference! We'll be kicking it off with the keynote "Ned Christie and the Consequences of Fake News", by Dr. Devon Mihesuah. Register now to join us Oct. 19th at 11am ET for the live talk and Q&A!

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In the 1960s, how horrible of an idea was immigrating to North Korea?

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I once heard a Diné (Navajo) say that it was bad luck to have a coyote cross your path without killing it. And yet the Coyote of folklore doesn’t seem necessarily evil. Is this a widespread superstition in the Americas, or perhaps something that only arose with the introduction of livestock?

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How has chess education changed over the years?

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Registration is open for AskHistorians Digital Conference live networking sessions next week!

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Was domestic violence a larger problem on expanding frontiers than in more densely populated areas those settlers came from?

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Second attempt: What were the sunflowers cultivated by Native Americans like? How much have cultivated sunflowers changed since?

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How much did Ptolemaic Egypt resemble modern colonialism? Is there any way it’s helpful to look at the period this way?

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Title	Upvotes	Subreddit	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Are you getting excited about the AskHistorians 2021 Digital Conference? We sure are!	188	AskHistorians
You're invited to a live roundtable next week - All Women Have a Past: Reconstructing Women in History	130	AskHistorians
Next week is the AskHistorians Digital Conference! We'll be kicking it off with the keynote "Ned Christie and the Consequences of Fake News", by Dr. Devon Mihesuah. Register now to join us Oct. 19th at 11am ET for the live talk and Q&A!	77	AskHistorians
In the 1960s, how horrible of an idea was immigrating to North Korea?	67	AskHistorians
I once heard a Diné (Navajo) say that it was bad luck to have a coyote cross your path without killing it. And yet the Coyote of folklore doesn’t seem necessarily evil. Is this a widespread superstition in the Americas, or perhaps something that only arose with the introduction of livestock?	52	AskHistorians
How has chess education changed over the years?	29	AskHistorians
Registration is open for AskHistorians Digital Conference live networking sessions next week!	25	AskHistorians
Was domestic violence a larger problem on expanding frontiers than in more densely populated areas those settlers came from?	22	AskHistorians
Second attempt: What were the sunflowers cultivated by Native Americans like? How much have cultivated sunflowers changed since?	19	AskHistorians
How much did Ptolemaic Egypt resemble modern colonialism? Is there any way it’s helpful to look at the period this way?	16	AskHistorians