Why doesn't Detroit, Michigan have a subway system like New York, Chicago, LA? Did the Big 3 lobby against it?

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How do you think about Japan colonizing Korea in the past

They never said sorry. they destroyed our culture. They raped young women called wianbu (Japanese deny this fact they absolutely deny everything from world war to Korea colonization)

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In the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, characters regularly gulp rum straight from the bottle like it's water. Was this something that people actually did? Was rum measurably weaker back then? Were people just constantly drunk all the time?

as above

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Why does high school end at 18 years old/12th grade in the US?

Every US states ends high school at 18 and 12th grade, but from a certain perspective it seems a little arbitrary to me. I'm assuming there is a historical reason for this age. If it has something to do with that being when one is no longer a minor, then why is that the age? From a science perspective it's also fairly arbitrary for it to be 18 as well...

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Could Medieval merchants purchase or rent land from foreign powers?

During the medieval period and renaissance, could a medieval merchant or group of merchants, a company or corporation if they were called that back then, buy or rent land from foreign entities, say a king or lord, for commercial purposes e.g. to grow cash crops on. What that possible in those times, if so how?

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how the Germans managed to cremate people at an industrial scale during wartime while Italy is backlogged for months at a fraction of the number?

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How were Asian-American and African-American soldiers treated during The Vietnam War?

I find this time period interesting, I imagine that, due to the concurrently running Civil Rights Movement, Asian American mistreatment increased as a result of public pressure being on the mistreatment of African-Americans, and racism would be more prevalent within the top brass, with soldiers on the ground being more tolerant. I'd love to read into any primary or secondary sources you guys could provide also!

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hate bus

does anyone know what happened to the hate bus after George Rockwell's death?

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Before Hitler came into power were there other National movements/leaders who were trying to put a stop to the Jewish activity occurring in Weimar Germany?

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Gun rights in the US is such a polarising issue and I was wondering has that always been the case and has there been a point in time where stricter gun laws could have been implemented without it being such a major issue?

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Does anyone have Franklin M. Davis, Jr's book, 'Came as a Conqueror: The United States Army’s Occupation of Germany, 1945-1949'?

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The history of free-markets

People in the modern world believe the concept of the Free Market is a recent construct but reading through history it appears 'free markets' with no government control were very common.

What exactly is the history behind free trade and free markets? Which civilizations adequately engaged in free trade?

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How impactful was the English army in WW1?

Iirc Dan Carlin said in his podcast that the English army consisted of 90 000 men when they landed in Europe. How could they have made a difference with such small numbers compared to the other powers? Looking at losses other powers suffered, why didn’t the English army simply melt away?

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I'm Lincoln Mullen, author of "The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America," as well as the digital project "America's Public Bible." Ask me anything you like about American religious history, digital history, or computational historical research.

Hi everyone. I'm Lincoln Mullen, an associate professor of history at George Mason University and the Director of Computational History at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. I'm happy to answer questions about the history of religious conversion in the United States, about American religious history more generally, or about digital history. Ask me anything!

One part of my work is historical research that involves data analysis and visualization. I'm currently working on two projects in that vein. One is America's Public Bible, where I found biblical quotations in millions of nineteenth-century newspapers. Another is a project with my colleague John Turner and many contributors at RRCHNM called American Religious Ecologies, where we are digitizing the 1926 Census of Religious Bodies.

I'm also the author The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America (Harvard, 2017). Here's a description of the book:

The United States has a long history of religious pluralism, and yet Americans have often thought that people’s faith determines their eternal destinies. The result is that Americans switch religions more often than any other nation. The Chance of Salvation traces the history of the distinctively American idea that religion is a matter of individual choice.

Lincoln Mullen shows how the willingness of Americans to change faiths, recorded in narratives that describe a wide variety of conversion experiences, created a shared assumption that religious identity is a decision. In the nineteenth century, as Americans confronted a growing array of religious options, pressures to convert altered the basis of American religion. Evangelical Protestants emphasized conversion as a personal choice, while Protestant missionaries brought Christianity to Native American nations such as the Cherokee, who adopted Christianity on their own terms. Enslaved and freed African Americans similarly created a distinctive form of Christian conversion based on ideas of divine justice and redemption. Mormons proselytized for a new tradition that stressed individual free will. American Jews largely resisted evangelism while at the same time winning converts to Judaism. Converts to Catholicism chose to opt out of the system of religious choice by turning to the authority of the Church.

By the early twentieth century, religion in the United States was a system of competing options that created an obligation for more and more Americans to choose their own faith. Religion had changed from a family inheritance to a consciously adopted identity.

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Friendly fire casualties in sword/shield era?

We all watching movies and it looks like literal hell, i wonder like percentage wise how many people dead as a friendly stabs.

What happened at nights? I dont know how can you stop a war, like guys lets continue at morning.

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It's around 100AD, and I'm an average Irish farmer in Ireland, how aware am I of Rome & the Roman Empire?

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How wealthy and important were noteworthy composers during their time?

And how many were actually child prodigies?

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In what way did the Spanish Influenza change the way society functioned? And are there lessons to be learned as to how much (or how little) COVID-19 will change the way we live our lives and our behaviours?

As above: I'm just curious to know whether there were any pronounced or even subtle societal behaviours that the Spanish flu fundamentally changed.

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What are the 3-5 most important historical events for understanding the modern day US?

Understanding why the modern day is the way it is - politically, culturally, etc. And cultural references. And if you can explain why too, that would be awesome.

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Is there any chance that Hitler escaped?

Hitler's skull which Russians found belonged to a female?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/27/adolf-hitler-suicide-skull-fragment?CMP=share_btn_link

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At the height of Germany's power during WW2, how much was Hitler himself worth?

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How Did Cyrus The Great A Zoroastrian King Influence The Abrahamic Religions?

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What was life like for the Incas?

Hey! I'm not sure how much information we have about the Incas, but I was curious. Historical events excluded, what do we know about their way of life? Day-to-day things, from the farmers to the emperors. All information is appreciated!

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Why did so many people tried to become Roman emperor despite the high probability of dying a violent death?

It's seems weird that for example during the crisis of the third century so many in the roman elites tried to become an emperor despite the high odds of being dead next year. I mean one would think that, assuming possible pretenders behave rationally, a lot of emperors dying on the job would greatly decreases the atractivity of a coup. What explains this behavior? Was this something special to roman/byzantine history or do you find this in other cultures as well? And are there any papers about the probability of rulers dying violently as determent to seizing power?

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How did the Hitler lookalikes die at the end of WW2?

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