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In the antebellum novel "The Bondwoman's Narrative," a white woman is shown documents proving she has a black ancestor, and is then captured and sold as a slave. Did this ever happen during American slavery?
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What do we know about the doomed siblings of heirs to the Ottoman throne and their feelings about the policy of fratricide? Did they live resigned to their fate?
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How did Nestorian Christianity influence the Mongols during their invasions? Did it have an impact on their warmaking, their ethics, their foreign policy?
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How did factory architecture evolve from multi-story brick mills in the center of towns to the giant "big box" industrial property built on a greenfield site?
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When the Nazi forces in Europe had begun to collapse in late '44-1945, did the Allies ever consider toppling Franco's regime in Spain?
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How did FDR get the funds for the surge of additional Executive Branch personnel to design the New Deal and staff its new 'Alphabet Soup' agencies?
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What was the Radical Republicans' economic policy and long-term vision for Radical Reconstruction in the South?
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How large was the US Intelligence Community over the course of the Cold War, compared with its size today?
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