Graffiti artist Chaz Bojorquez claims that graffiti took off on the West Coast after WWII, 20 years earlier than in New York. Is that true? How and where did graffiti originate in the US? | /u/sushiladyboner

Choctaw historian Rita Laws, Ph.D, says the association we have of Native Americans with hunting and fishing is an massive exaggeration, and that the Aztec, Mayan, and Zapotec children ate 100% vegetarian diets until at least the age of ten years old. Is this factual? | /u/ucumu

"In 1920s France, Josephine Baker became the most successful American entertainer and the first African-American to star in a major motion picture. Yet she never reached an equivalent reputation in the US. What was Baker's relationship to her American homeland and to its civil rights movement?" | /u/vpltz

"It Takes Two, but what are the origins of Tango? How did African and Native American music styles influence this most Argentine of genres?" | /u/aquatermain

"Why did American Puritans seem to deradicalize so rapidly? In the 1690s they're accusing each other of witchcraft en masse with the entire society revolving around the congregation. A mere 70 years later their descendants are some of the most intellectually radical/liberal in the world. Why?" | /u/dhowlett1692

""In those days, "surgeons operated in blood-stiffened frock coats – the stiffer the coat, the prouder the busy surgeon", "pus was as inseparable from surgery as blood", and "Cleanliness was next to prudishness"" How would this make sense in the light of the miasma theory? Wouldnt everything reek?" | /u/fikstor

"Did Joseph McCarthy find any actual Soviet spies?" | /u/kochevnik81

"In Disney's Mulan, how would Mulan have brought dishonor to the remains of her fellow soldiers by being revealed as a woman? And what would it have meant?" | /u/jimedorje

Why do animals in Medieval manuscripts look so crazy? Did the painters not know what they looked like? Was it intentional? Did they have a hard time drawing? | /u/CoeurdeLionne

Was the battle of tours an insignificant battle? | /u/Libertat

Why didn’t the Soviet Union use paratroopers during World War II? | /u/jon_beveryman

A post about native australians made some ridiculous sounding claims, are they true ?" | /u/djiti-djiti

"During their decade together did The Beatles sleep with groupies left and right? Are they known to have engaged in rockstar-level debauchery? Did they take hard drugs?" | /u/rockhistory

"What would the soldiers of the various groups in the South African Border War have understood to be what they were fighting for?" | /u/artificial_doctor

"Harness racing used to be fairly popular in the US. Why did it become overshadowed by flat racing?" | /u/PM_ME_UR_SADDLEBREDS

"In modern strategy games, it is easy to see if you are winning or losing a battle, because the game simply tells you. But how did foot soldiers and officers discern victory and defeat during the heat of battle? How did they evaluate if they should retreat or stand their ground?" | /u/dandan_noodles

"I am a governor of a village at the height of Genghis Khan's empire. What should I expect to happen after I submit peacefully to Mongol rule?" | /u/cthulhushrugged

"Did plays in ancient times have gratuitous and maligned sequels/prequels much like many major film franchises today?" | /u/jelvinjs7

"Who was the woman who put her arm through a door (like a bolt) to prevent a king from being assasinated?" | /u/historiagrephour

"I just read that recent excavations of the earliest royal tombs in Japan suggest strongly that the country's ancient imperial family may originally have been Korean, and that the Japanese government has strongly discouraged further research on the sites. What is the extent of the evidence uncovered?" | /u/SteveGladstone

Who were the Picts and how and when did they transition from a tribal to a feudalistic lifestyle? | /u/Libertat

Every once in a while a website will claim that teeth extracted from dead soldiers at Waterloo supplied dentures across Europe for years. Is this a myth, and moreover why does it seem only Waterloo gets this treatment, as opposed to bigger Napoleonic battles like Wagram or Leipzig? | /u/mikedash

"What motivated 19th Century soldiers to endure such terrible hardships?" | /u/partymoses

The Deaf community today is split on the use of cochlear implants. Was there similar anger and argument during the spread of hearing aid use? | /u/woofiegrrl

"Is Machiavelli’s The Prince actually a satire?" | /u/J-force

"How do historians differentiate between "genuine" folk traditions and traditions with a heavily self-conscious or commercial character? Is it even possible?" | /u/itsallfolklore

"How would Jesus as the son of a carpenter in a backwater have been able to speak Latin well enough to converse with Pontius Pilate? Pretty sure they didn't have latin classes in Bethlehem schools." | /u/KYWildMan

"It's a common trope in 19th century fiction for a character to descend into insanity. What would 19th century "insanity" mean in modern medical terms?" | /u/kingconani

During the First Crusade, were there any alternative proposals to invading the Levant? | /u/Valkine

"In the film 'Hail, Caesar!' (2016), there is one scene in which a Protestant, a Catholic and an Orthodox priest and a Jewish rabbi are consulted about the titular film-within-a-film's depiction of Jesus. How far did film studios in the 50s actually try to avoid offending religious sensibilities?" | /u/GeekAesthete

"How on earth did the Unabomber evade capture for nearly 20 years, despite the costliest FBI investigation in history?" | /u/A_Dissident_Is_Here

"Was Zoroastrianism the source for Christianity?" | /u/lcnielsen

"What do we know about history of "True Cross" after 1st century?" | /u/mikedash

"In 1765, a chimney sweep was banished from for 5 years from Edinburgh and expelled from the local chimney sweep organization for assisting after a hanging went awry. Were chimney sweeps notably anti-death penalty? Why was it a "grievous punishment" to be exiled to Leith?" | /u/mikedash

How can we read super ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs if the Rosetta stone was created in 196BC? | /u/Osarnachthis

How did cult of personality evolve in North Korea? What made North Koreans see Kim family as a almost divine beings in just three generations? | /u/Cenodoxus

What changed in the Japanese military that caused them to be so brutal in WWII after their mostly professional behavior in the Russo-Japanese war? | /u/amp1212

It is a tribute to the quality of r/AskHistorians that I find myself unable to help pick a winner, because every one of these threads I read through I want to vote for.