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https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/11usbjm/any_recommendations_for_legal_history_of_medieval/ | 11usbjm | 15 | t3_11usbjm | Any recommendations for legal history of medieval Spain? | I have read Crime in Medieval Europe by Trevor Dean and recently purchased The History of Courts and Procedure in Medieval Canon Law (History of Medieval Canon Law). Dean’s book was a nice, brief primer, but I don’t feel like I learned much about Spain. I’m not sure if what I’m looking for exists, but what I would like... | 21 | 0.96 | null | false | 1,679,155,577 | [
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"body": "First two of general european legal history, then some general Iberian history, and at the end in Spanish, basic legal history works, as even my passive Spanish is more than questionable, thus out of continental legal histories it is one of my least familiar areas - so I´ll leave that for /u/TywinDeV... | 2 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Any recommendations for legal history of medieval Spain?
I have read Crime in Medieval Europe by Trevor Dean and recently purchased The History of Cou... | false | false | 6 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2ntaat/what_was_mexico_and_canadas_reaction_to_the/ | 2ntaat | 69 | t3_2ntaat | What was Mexico and Canada's reaction to the American civil war? Were there any foreign volunteers or mercanaires? | Also, did Liberia have any position? | 805 | 0.92 | null | false | 1,417,317,034 | [
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"body": "**Yes, and in staggering numbers.**\n\nYou ask about mercenaries, and let me be clear: Neither the United States nor Confederate States went out to hire foreign mercenaries to fight in the American Civil War on a large scale. There are, however, ample instances in which both the U.S. and C.S. hired f... | 3 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
What was Mexico and Canada's reaction to the American civil war? Were there any foreign volunteers or mercanaires?
Also, did Liberia have any position... | false | false | 35 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7825zd/in_world_war_ii_the_average_age_of_the_combat/ | 7825zd | 62 | t3_7825zd | "In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was 26, in Vietnam it was 19." Is this accurate? If so, is there a reason for the difference? | "In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was 26, in Vietnam it was 19."
It's a fact (or factoid) used at the start of [Paul Hardcastle's 1985 song 19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRJFvtvTGEk). I've heard the song many times but only now started to wonder why there'd be such a drop in age (if there wa... | 2,969 | 0.93 | null | false | 1,508,698,764 | [
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"body": "**That claim appears to be apocryphal. It can be surmised that the average ages of men serving on the front lines in both the Vietnam War and World War II were older than 18, but younger than 26. An average of around 20-25, leaning to the lower end, is a reasonable estimate assuming that casualty dis... | 2 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
"In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was 26, in Vietnam it was 19." Is this accurate? If so, is there a reason for the difference?
"... | false | false | 41 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/l5kvah/in_the_decades_preceding_the_american_civil_war/ | l5kvah | 11 | t3_l5kvah | In the decades preceding the American Civil War, how did slave owners justify slavery? | Did they justify it because of the economic gain? Or were there other reasons?
I'm not American, but I'm trying to learn more about US history and the general population's opinion. | 14 | 0.76 | null | false | 1,611,687,677 | [
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"body": "In addition to the answer already provided, you may also be interested in [this previous answer](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/h01pv9/comment/ftk5tpy) of mine to a similar question. That answer summarizes the, er, summary of the most common pro-slavery arguments given in the antebel... | 3 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
In the decades preceding the American Civil War, how did slave owners justify slavery?
Did they justify it because of the economic gain? Or were there... | false | false | 42 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2ikk86/how_did_the_censorship_in_the_vietnam_war_failed/ | 2ikk86 | 11 | t3_2ikk86 | How did the censorship in the Vietnam War 'failed' while the censorship in the Korean War was relatively 'successful'? | In this case I'm referring failing and succeeding as one had huge social pressure for ending the War while the other seemed to have little opposition to it. I’m not trying to argue that the public control in the US lost/won the war or anything, just to clarify.
The Korean War was one of the main factors for ... | 37 | 0.79 | null | false | 1,412,698,208 | [
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"body": "Not really sure where to start here... \n\nOK. First, I'd like to point out that the censorship issue is way more complicated, almost paradox than it might seem at first. \n\nWhen the war in Korea started, the tradition of the press coverage of the world war was still very strong. The journalists who... | 2 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
How did the censorship in the Vietnam War 'failed' while the censorship in the Korean War was relatively 'successful'?
In this case I'm referring fail... | false | false | 46 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5839li/a_recent_post_mentioned_incidents_of_american/ | 5839li | 16 | t3_5839li | A recent post mentioned incidents of American soldiers "fragging" their own officers during the latter years of the Vietnam War. Just how widespread was this? Why? | 367 | 0.94 | null | false | 1,476,790,298 | [
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"body": "\"Fragging\", or the attempted injuring or killing of one's own officer(s) and NCOs, is definitely one of those things that sticks in people's minds about the Vietnam War. Pinning down an exact number of fragging attempts is nearly impossible. There were likely attempts which failed and no one knew, ... | 3 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
A recent post mentioned incidents of American soldiers "fragging" their own officers during the latter years of the Vietnam War. Just how widespread w... | false | false | 47 | |||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/22dk9w/why_did_portugal_and_spain_fall_so_far_behind_the/ | 22dk9w | 17 | t3_22dk9w | Why did Portugal and Spain fall so far behind the other major European powers in the Industrial Revolution? | 178 | 0.95 | null | false | 1,396,822,422 | [
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"body": "This is something we discussed in my military history class briefly but it was during the 17th century and after that Spain and Portugal really began to fall behind despite massive amounts of windfall wealth coming in from their colonies. \n\nFirstly there was a slight population crisis as large numb... | 3 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Why did Portugal and Spain fall so far behind the other major European powers in the Industrial Revolution?
This is something we discussed in my milit... | false | false | 48 | |||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/onhimb/how_accurate_is_slavoj_žižeks_recent_defense_of/ | onhimb | 11 | t3_onhimb | How accurate is Slavoj Žižek's recent defense of The French Revolution? | On a recent appearance on [The Jacobin Show](https://youtu.be/y9mXHUB7ocI) in celebration of Bastille day, the philosopher Slavoj Žižek defended the legacy of the French Revolution, particularly the radical side of it under the leadership of Montagnards such as Robespierre and Saint-Just. Žizek criticizes the commonpla... | 220 | 0.98 | null | false | 1,626,712,040 | [
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"body": "This is a really interesting, albeit quite politically charged topic. I will start by addressing each of the claims.\n\n \n> The Revolutionary Tribunal was not a show-trial. The outcome of trials was not predetermined and only around 60% of those accused were found guilty.\n \nThe actual statistic is... | 1 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
How accurate is Slavoj Žižek's recent defense of The French Revolution?
On a recent appearance on [The Jacobin Show](https://youtu.be/y9mXHUB7ocI) in ... | false | false | 58 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4bwcb9/meta_raskhistorians_needs_you_apply_for_a_flair/ | 4bwcb9 | 246 | t3_4bwcb9 | [META] /r/Askhistorians needs you! Apply for a flair today! | **Join the AH Community! Apply for a Flair today!**
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"body": "Piping in to say we do get fairly regular and very interesting questions about Syrian and Iraqi 20th century history. If you're knowledgeable about Baathists, you're going to have a stream of questions to answer!\n\nAnd if you are able to answer the often asked question of why the Middle East is 'lag... | 3 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
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**Join the AH Community! Apply for a Flair today!**
[AskHistorians needs you!](http://cdn... | false | false | 75 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/y793mm/given_the_phenomenon_of_egyptomania_in_the_west/ | y793mm | 63 | t3_y793mm | Given the phenomenon of "Egyptomania" in the West in the 19th century, why didn't political thought and literature from Ancient Egypt become as prominently studied or a source of inspiration for movements as Ancient Rome and Greece? | 1,769 | 0.96 | null | false | 1,666,104,487 | [
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"body": "Racism. There’s a number of issues to unpick and to expand upon, but it is nevertheless fundamentally still racism that has caused the continued problems with modern attitudes to ancient Egypt, and its literature in particular. Egyptomania was an inherently racist phenomenon, a particularly obvious e... | 1 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Given the phenomenon of "Egyptomania" in the West in the 19th century, why didn't political thought and literature from Ancient Egypt become as promin... | false | false | 84 | |||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/10iunfq/what_pop_history_book_has_done_the_most_damage_to/ | 10iunfq | 523 | t3_10iunfq | What pop history book has done the most damage to the study of your particular subfield? | Question inspired by a tweet I saw yesterday related to the If Books Could Kill podcast (which is about "the airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds").
There's a *lot* of pop history books out there. Some of them are good, and many of them are not. Curious to know which one(s) have done the m... | 4,762 | 0.97 | null | false | 1,674,422,571 | [
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"body": "\"The Gangs of New York\" is a very entertaining read, and a good way for a new reader to get interested in Nineteenth Century New York City history. Unfortunately it is also largely a work of fiction.\n\nHerbert Asbury was wrong about Theodore Allen disappearing after being accused of murder in the ... | 3 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
What pop history book has done the most damage to the study of your particular subfield?
Question inspired by a tweet I saw yesterday related to the I... | false | false | 85 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/13pvc6l/early_modern_military_officer_suicide_norms_was_a/ | 13pvc6l | 5 | t3_13pvc6l | Early Modern military officer suicide norms -- was a field officer expected to shoot themselves if their unit's standard is lost? | Were Early Modern European military officers expected to commit suicide if they lost their unit's battle standard? More generally, what were the norms for suicide among officers in Early and Late Modern European militaries? This comes to me from watching the [Sharpe miniseries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_(TV_... | 5 | 0.78 | null | false | 1,684,863,738 | [
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"body": "> Were Early Modern European military officers expected to commit suicide if they lost their unit's battle standard?\n\nOkay, I see what's happened here. *Expected*? Certainly not. Were there an actual regulation or societal expectation to that effect, I'm dead sure I'd have heard of it already, or B... | 2 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Early Modern military officer suicide norms -- was a field officer expected to shoot themselves if their unit's standard is lost?
Were Early Modern Eu... | false | false | 86 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2on5b1/how_iswas_world_war_ii_history_taught_in_germany/ | 2on5b1 | 185 | t3_2on5b1 | How is/was World War II History Taught in Germany and Japan (and Russia), and how has it changed in the past 70 years? | As someone who grew up in America, the idea of learning about a war in which people who may have been your parents or grandparents were horribly defeated, your homeland destroyed, government forcibly abolished, and leaders publicly tried and put to death seems utterly foreign to me. Not saying America is the best, but ... | 767 | 0.88 | null | false | 1,418,043,689 | [
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"body": "In Germany the Second World War and the Third Reich are covered at length but the focus is more on how it happened and the crimes which were commited by the Germans during war. The actual war is only given as overview. The most time for this subject is used for teaching how Hitler was able to become ... | 3 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
How is/was World War II History Taught in Germany and Japan (and Russia), and how has it changed in the past 70 years?
As someone who grew up in Ameri... | false | false | 90 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/efmaaq/in_the_us_we_hear_a_lot_about_the_red_scare/ | efmaaq | 51 | t3_efmaaq | In the US we hear a lot about the Red Scare during the Cold War, but not so much about the other side. Did citizens of Soviet Russia have an equivalent "capitalist" or "democratic" scare? | I imagine the Soviet government produced substantial anti-US propaganda, but information is hard to find. For example wikipedia articles on the topic are sparse [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-American\_sentiment\_in\_Russia#Cold\_War\_era\_politics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-American_sentiment_in_Russia#C... | 2,350 | 0.95 | null | false | 1,577,310,313 | [
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"body": "Absolutely. From the late 1920s through 1976, anti-democracy, anti-capitalist, and anti-bourgeoisie movements were common place in the Communist Party of China (CPC) before they won the civil war and in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) after it was formed in 1949. Generally, these movements can b... | 3 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
In the US we hear a lot about the Red Scare during the Cold War, but not so much about the other side. Did citizens of Soviet Russia have an equivalen... | false | false | 100 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2eh4hq/why_did_the_british_burn_the_white_house_and_a/ | 2eh4hq | 5 | t3_2eh4hq | Why did the British burn the White House and a lot of Washington DC during the War of 1812 and not retake the former colonies as victors? | I guess I don't know that much about the War of 1812 other than the sacking of Washington DC. How were the British able to do that to the capital of the United States and not retake the former colonies? I guess any and all information about the War of 1812 would be appreciated. | 10 | 0.73 | null | false | 1,408,916,720 | [
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"body": "Q: Why did the british burn the white house?\n\n* The capital was abandoned as indefensible due to an earlier british victory at Bladensburg (which is just outside D.C.)\n* The White house, Congress and other buildings were burned in retribution for the sacking and burning of the Parliament of York (... | 2 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Why did the British burn the White House and a lot of Washington DC during the War of 1812 and not retake the former colonies as victors?
I guess I do... | Q: Why did the British burn the White House and not retake the former colonies as victors?
A: The British burned the White House and other buildings in retribution for the sacking and burning of the Parliament of York by American forces. They did not have any goals to retake the colonies, and were preoccupied with Fra... | true | Q: Why did the British burn the White House and not retake the former colonies as victors? [QUESTION]
A: The British burned the White House and other buildings in retribution for the sacking and burning of the Parliament of York by American forces. They did not have any goals to retake the colonies, and were preoccupi... | false | 121 |
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/11l1atk/with_the_plethora_of_monastic_orders_which/ | 11l1atk | 5 | t3_11l1atk | With the plethora of monastic orders which emerged during the Middle Ages, what were the practices and beliefs that made them all different and distinct from one another? | I was trying to read up on Augustinian, Tironensian, Franciscan, Cistercian, and Benedictine monks, amongst others, but even after pouring through several internet articles upon them, I can't seem to rightly figure out why these numerous different groups existed, let alone what makes them all different and distinct fro... | 20 | 0.82 | null | false | 1,678,200,538 | [
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"body": "OK, so there are a few different points to cover here! Note that I'll be dealing with the Catholic monastic tradition much more than the Orthodox one due to my knowledge background.\n\nThe first thing to understand about monastic history is that each new foundation believed that they were recreating ... | 2 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
With the plethora of monastic orders which emerged during the Middle Ages, what were the practices and beliefs that made them all different and distin... | false | false | 133 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/13rli95/is_the_common_in_italy_trope_mussolini_did_good/ | 13rli95 | 3 | t3_13rli95 | Is the common (in Italy) trope "Mussolini did good things" true? | In Italy, people can easily get away with saying Italian dictator Benito Mussolini “did good things”. The usual list of achievements includes but is not limited to: social welfare reforms such as the introduction of work holidays, the reclamation of swamplands, improvements in public infrastructure, efforts against cor... | 5 | 0.7 | null | false | 1,685,030,286 | [
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"body": "TL;DR: with the exception of paid holidays, no.\n\nLonger answer:\n\n* social welfare reforms\n\nThe concept of [paid holidays](https://www.focus.it/cultura/storia/da-quando-esistono-le-ferie-pagate) was indeed introduced in 1937 with the CCNL, defined as a period of paid rest the worker had a right... | 1 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Is the common (in Italy) trope "Mussolini did good things" true?
In Italy, people can easily get away with saying Italian dictator Benito Mussolini “d... | false | false | 152 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ijfvro/french_revolution_at_first_didnt_aim_to_abolish/ | ijfvro | 15 | t3_ijfvro | French revolution at first didn't aim to abolish monarchy - then why did tides turn so fast from the reformation of Regime to complete revolution of order? | As the title says - as far as I know (based on my shallow knowledge of Revolution) people that made the backbone of Assembly at first just wanted to reform government, to push taxation on nobility and clergy, to relieve the burden from the lower class, etc.
Then how did their ideas went from this to the execution of ... | 7 | 0.82 | null | false | 1,598,806,203 | [
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"body": "Hello there!\n\nGreat question, and honestly it's a very loaded question. A huge chunk of the historiography around the French Revolution for the past 200+ years has been devoted to the question of why the Revolution became as radical as it did; why the Revolution of 1789 turned into the Revolution o... | 2 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
French revolution at first didn't aim to abolish monarchy - then why did tides turn so fast from the reformation of Regime to complete revolution of o... | false | false | 161 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/tmo1oz/over_the_last_month_the_perception_of_russias/ | tmo1oz | 90 | t3_tmo1oz | Over the last month, the perception of Russia's military as effective and modern has been shattered. During the Cold War, was the Soviet military actually well organized and a serious threat to the west, or was that perception fueled by propaganda? | 3,281 | 0.93 | null | false | 1,648,141,451 | [
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"body": "> During the Cold War, was the Soviet military actually well organized and a serious threat to the west,\n\nThe effectiveness of the Cold War Soviet armed forces is difficult to judge, due to a lack of evidence - the Soviet Cold War forces were involved in few wars. What wars did they fight in?\n\n1.... | 2 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Over the last month, the perception of Russia's military as effective and modern has been shattered. During the Cold War, was the Soviet military actu... | false | false | 162 | |||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/qizeiw/why_is_the_korean_war_often_neglected_in_western/ | qizeiw | 18 | t3_qizeiw | Why is the Korean War often neglected in Western popular culture? | This question is inspired by this news article: [America's war in Afghanistan is over, but the country's true longest war with North Korea continues](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-24/north-korea-americas-longest-war-a-challenge-for-joe-biden/100559598)
The article mentions that "*The most popular film in the wor... | 310 | 0.91 | null | false | 1,635,592,584 | [
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"body": "I would argue that the forgotten, nigh-amnesiac aspects of the Korean War is precisely what makes it so interesting for me and other scholars who still center Korea in broader surveys of the American military, the Cold War, and postcolonial violence. Rightfully, as you point out, the three year confl... | 2 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Why is the Korean War often neglected in Western popular culture?
This question is inspired by this news article: [America's war in Afghanistan is ove... | false | false | 170 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/13tputq/did_boys_have_to_swim_naked_in_front_of_girls_at/ | 13tputq | 35 | t3_13tputq | Did boys have to swim naked in front of girls at school swim classes in the US in the 1970s? | I saw a user on Quora say that boys were required to swim naked in american schools in the 1970s and that there was "family nights" where the boys' parents and sisters were invited to watch the boys swim naked and and collect their medals.
The Quora user linked this [newspaper article](https://i.ibb.co/jJhttFq/1-TAwcr... | 197 | 0.9 | null | false | 1,685,243,266 | [
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"body": "In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, public health was a paramount goal for policymakers, doctors, and people in general. It's probably fair to say that this was at least partly sparked by the work of Dr. John Snow in the cholera outbreak in London in the 1850s, when he convinced loc... | 1 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Did boys have to swim naked in front of girls at school swim classes in the US in the 1970s?
I saw a user on Quora say that boys were required to swim... | false | false | 180 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5fx1xc/census_500k_results/ | 5fx1xc | 39 | t3_5fx1xc | Census 500K Results | Hello friends, after a *far too long* wait -- we completely dropped the ball on this as a mod-team -- we have results from our census, taken at the 500K subscriber milestone. An enormous thank you to all on the mod-team and former mod-team members who helped with this, including but not limited to u/caffarelli, u/elm11... | 177 | 0.95 | moderator | false | 1,480,605,190 | [
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"body": "#Complaints/Concerns: Responses \n\nBelow we've collected a representative comment or two from the many, many comments we got, that are related to some individual topic. Below we've tried to provide some helpful responses/\"why do you do this\" explanations. The format is like so: comments from the s... | 3 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Census 500K Results
Hello friends, after a *far too long* wait -- we completely dropped the ball on this as a mod-team -- we have results from our cen... | false | false | 186 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/13ude6o/did_prechristian_ireland_have_an/ | 13ude6o | 9 | t3_13ude6o | Did pre-Christian Ireland have an intellectual/philosophical tradition? | I read a comment on r/askphilosophy saying it does and am wondering how historically accurate it is given that it lacks sources:
“…there's a rich canon of literature and philosophy largely untranslated in Old Irish because it just hasn't been of much scholastic interest and because it involves a huge amount of work du... | 71 | 0.93 | null | false | 1,685,313,772 | [
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"body": "/u/textandtrowel has given a great overview of our early written sources coming out of Ireland, but, I'd like to dive more into the specifics of what this claim is making, as there are some serious issues in it.\n\nWhile, as TextAndTrowel notes, that it is certainly *possible* for Ireland to have had... | 2 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Did pre-Christian Ireland have an intellectual/philosophical tradition?
I read a comment on r/askphilosophy saying it does and am wondering how histor... | false | false | 187 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/13qvrrm/did_rome_begin_as_an_etruscan_outpost/ | 13qvrrm | 4 | t3_13qvrrm | Did Rome begin as an Etruscan outpost? | I have been reading extensively on the Etruscan people recently as part of a broader classics course. I wanted to study the Etruscans to understand the people in their own right but also to enrich my understanding of roman history and the Roman way of life. The early history of Rome I understand is a notoriously sketch... | 45 | 0.87 | null | false | 1,684,957,923 | [
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"body": "You are right to note that the early history of Rome is notoriously difficult to reconstruct. All surviving literary sources relating to early Rome come from many centuries later, and archaeological evidence for early Rome is poorly preserved and difficult to excavate. Every interpretation of early R... | 1 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Did Rome begin as an Etruscan outpost?
I have been reading extensively on the Etruscan people recently as part of a broader classics course. I wanted ... | false | false | 191 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/758vqt/monday_methods_indigenous_peoples_day_and/ | 758vqt | 42 | t3_758vqt | Monday Methods | Indigenous Peoples Day and Columbus Day: Revisionist? | Hello! Happy Indigenous Peoples Day, everyone! Welcome to another installment of Monday Methods. Today, we will be speaking about a topic relevant to now: Indigenous Peoples Day.
As it is making news right now, [a number of places](http://time.com/4968067/indigenous-peoples-day-columbus-day-cities/) have [dropped](htt... | 75 | 0.88 | null | false | 1,507,553,924 | [
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"body": "It is clear that the Celebration of Columbus, in all its forms, is an implicit —or, as shown above, explicit— celebration of the nastiest forms of imperialism. It raises awkward questions which lead to awkward truths about the european colonization of the americas, and has implications for the kind o... | 3 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Monday Methods | Indigenous Peoples Day and Columbus Day: Revisionist?
Hello! Happy Indigenous Peoples Day, everyone! Welcome to another installment o... | false | false | 195 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/bsoiz3/xpost_from_rhistory_the_romanticized_wild_west/ | bsoiz3 | 31 | t3_bsoiz3 | [X-post from r/history] The romanticized "Wild West" period in American history was only about 30 years, and fairly recent (1865-1895). It's obvious to me why it ended, but I don't understand how the years before were different? | Cross posting since I didn't get any responses...
So I get that the period was incredibly short, but I'm having a hard time understanding how the, say, 50 years before 1865 weren't equally "wild" and lawless, particularly considering how many new territories/states were admitted to the Union.
The Union by 1865 had al... | 1,118 | 0.97 | null | false | 1,558,744,634 | [
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"body": "A census of the Los Angeles area was taken in 1836 that counted all non-Indian residents. It put the population somewhere below 2,000,^1 with the American population being about 20.^2\n\nThere were population counts of San Francisco in this era as well, and the non-Indian population peaked at 373 in ... | 1 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
[X-post from r/history] The romanticized "Wild West" period in American history was only about 30 years, and fairly recent (1865-1895). It's obvious t... | false | false | 217 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/o72zq7/the_industrial_revolution_as_we_know_it_with/ | o72zq7 | 8 | t3_o72zq7 | The industrial revolution as we know it, with steam powered machines and trains, really started around the 1840s. Yet coal was already mined for almost a century at this point. What was coal used for prior to the advent of the steam engine, that warranted quite a bit of mining of it already? | 49 | 0.96 | null | false | 1,624,547,905 | [
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"body": "By 1840, coal had been mined for far longer than a century. In fact, Londoners had been complaining about air pollution from burning coal for far longer than one century--six of them, in fact. Especially in England, coal mining was very much already an industry and a profession in the later Middle Ag... | 2 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
The industrial revolution as we know it, with steam powered machines and trains, really started around the 1840s. Yet coal was already mined for almos... | false | false | 230 | |||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8zgozt/monday_methods_the_main_purpose_of_educating_them/ | 8zgozt | 12 | t3_8zgozt | Monday Methods | "...The main purpose of educating them is to enable them to read, write, and speak the English language" - On the Study of Assimilation | Good day! Welcome to another installment of Monday Methods, a bi-weekly feature where we discuss, explain, and explore historical methods, historiography, and theoretical frameworks concerning history.
The quote within the title of this post, "...The main purpose of educating them is to enable them to read, write, and... | 100 | 0.95 | null | false | 1,531,789,321 | [
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"body": "It is worth noting that the degree to which we as Americans have often failed to acknowledge the impact of assimilationism into our culture has wider impacts than is generally acknowledged. This has cropped up more than a few times in my own research in pulp studies, and I'd like to give an example d... | 3 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Monday Methods | "...The main purpose of educating them is to enable them to read, write, and speak the English language" - On the Study of Assimilati... | false | false | 236 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6mg3j3/monday_methods_american_indian_genocide_denial/ | 6mg3j3 | 45 | t3_6mg3j3 | Monday Methods: American Indian Genocide Denial and how to combat it (Part 2) - Understanding genocide in law and concept | Welcome to yet another installment of Monday Methods!
For this week, we will be discussing a part two to last week's post about American Indian Genocide Denialism and how to combat it. [In part one, we discussed the existence of denialism around this topic and several methods used to deny it.](https://www.reddit.com/r... | 73 | 0.84 | null | false | 1,499,708,986 | [
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"body": "Two responses for the common Reddit refrain \"but that was 500 years ago\":\n\n* [Maya genocide in Guatemala, 1981–1983](https://www.hmh.org/la_Genocide_Guatemala.shtml)\n* [Documented cases of US government secretly sterilizing Native women into the 1970s](https://cbhd.org/content/forced-sterilizati... | 3 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Monday Methods: American Indian Genocide Denial and how to combat it (Part 2) - Understanding genocide in law and concept
Welcome to yet another insta... | false | false | 250 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/acv93a/was_the_american_civil_war_a_big_deal_to_the_rest/ | acv93a | 27 | t3_acv93a | Was the American Civil War a “big deal” to the rest of the world as it was transpiring? Or were foreign powers for the most part indifferent towards it? | And also did citizens of these countries show any interest in it? Such as news articles or local topics of conversation? | 629 | 0.95 | null | false | 1,546,703,699 | [
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"body": "I've written about 'internationalism' and the Civil War in several regards, linked [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/profiles/georgy_k_zhukov#wiki_internationalism). I'll specifically repost what I've written about the Civil War and Latin America, as I think it is pretty damn interes... | 2 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Was the American Civil War a “big deal” to the rest of the world as it was transpiring? Or were foreign powers for the most part indifferent towards i... | false | false | 262 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/gqghby/was_the_french_revolution_a_net_positive_for_the/ | gqghby | 9 | t3_gqghby | Was the French Revolution a net positive for the peasantry? | So I remember learning in history classes about the conditions that led up to the French Revolution. Famine, the bankruptcy of the state, that one probably fake Marie Antionette line about cake.
But in the end, did things actually get better as a result of the revolution? On average, did quality of life rise for those... | 23 | 0.86 | null | false | 1,590,431,771 | [
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"body": "Great question! As with most things in history... it depends! However it's definitely something we can approach answering!\n\nFor this discussion, I'll keep it specifically tailored to the peasants (aka the vast majority of the population) as per your question, but if you're curious I also did a simi... | 2 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
Was the French Revolution a net positive for the peasantry?
So I remember learning in history classes about the conditions that led up to the French R... | false | false | 264 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/vizk1/i_believe_theres_an_ancient_archaeological_site/ | vizk1 | 53 | t3_vizk1 | I believe there's an ancient archaeological site in Bolivia at an elevation of over 12,000 ft that shows unequivocal evidence of a technological sophistication that, put in the context of when and where it was built, rivals our own accomplishments today...is this an exaggeration? | I'm referring to [Puma Punku](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puma_Punku), located near the better known [Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco) site](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwanaku).
Although they are generally considered to be part of the same complex, some have theorized that the astonishing stonework at Puma Punku may have b... | 46 | 0.63 | null | false | 1,340,552,765 | [
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"body": "I'm glad you posted this here. Until one of the Mesoamerica experts shows up, I will leave a quote from the inestimable Bad Archaeology website:\n\n>Pumapunku is a site that forms part of the better known Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco) complex in Bolivia. Although the ancient astronauts proponents try to as... | 3 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
I believe there's an ancient archaeological site in Bolivia at an elevation of over 12,000 ft that shows unequivocal evidence of a technological sophi... | false | false | 265 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5t7kkr/how_did_the_us_economy_recover_from_the_great/ | 5t7kkr | 6 | t3_5t7kkr | How did the US economy recover from the Great Depression? | I have always had this notion that without WW2 the FDR reforms wouldn't have been sufficient to get the economy rolling again after the Great Depression hit. My understanding was that it wasn't till after WW2 that things really took off and that the war had a significant role in the recovery; however, I just learned ab... | 27 | 0.78 | null | false | 1,486,737,192 | [
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"body": "\nThe general idea that the US got out of the crisis only in 1940's after the spending in World War 2 is not quite true. The US economy started recovering in 1930's when the State started applying a wide variety of measures to stem the drop. Indeed, by 1937 Industrial production in the US had reached... | 2 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
How did the US economy recover from the Great Depression?
I have always had this notion that without WW2 the FDR reforms wouldn't have been sufficient... | false | false | 269 | ||
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/zivufc/in_cunk_on_earth_egyptologist_tyledesly_says_i/ | zivufc | 51 | t3_zivufc | In "Cunk on Earth", Egyptologist Tyledesly says "I don't think they had many homeless people in ancient Egypt. People looked after each other, I think." Did ancient Egypt (or other ancient societies) not experience homelessness as we know it today? | The comment comes, incredibly, when Cunk asks if the pyramids were pointy as a form of anti-homeless architecture.
As a follow up question, what scholarship exists on the history of homelessness? Thanks!
Edit: sorry, the egyptologist's name is Joyce Tyledsley! If anyone wants to watch the episode, the link is here, ... | 2,157 | 0.95 | null | false | 1,670,771,588 | [
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"body": "Hey /u/Wombfresh, this is a great question! Amusingly, I also just finished watching the Cunk on Earth series so this question feels doubly timely. I would agree that poverty and homelessness in Ancient Egypt were certainly *different* than how they are experienced presently in North American cities,... | 2 | Create a 2 person instructional Q&A dialog, where person 1 is asking question and person 2 is answering, from the following passsage. Include atleast 3 turns per person.
In "Cunk on Earth", Egyptologist Tyledesly says "I don't think they had many homeless people in ancient Egypt. People looked after each other, I think... | false | false | 272 |
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