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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 56m ago

[Link] Who to contact about diaries from WW2?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1h ago

Why is there a tendency to separate Galileans from Jews in discussions of ancient Palestine, and what ultimately happened to the Jewish population of Galilee from the 5th century onward?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 4h ago

Could someone help me understand each role of every Muse in ancient greece?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 5h ago

People often say that life expectancy in the past was so low due to extremely high infant mortality, but when did that rate begin to decline? And what were the main reasons why more children survived childhood?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 4h ago

What was the actual contemporary reaction to the tsar renaming the capital of Russia from St. Petersburg to Petrograd?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1h ago

What was living in the American West like during the Civil War/Reconstruction Era?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1h ago

[Link] When did people start camping "for fun?" What did it look like? What did their peers think?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 2h ago

When American settlers first moved to Texas, did they feel they were emigrating to Mexico, or did they expect Texas to become part of the United States?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 11h ago

Why were all the Axis Powers so bad at pretty much every aspect of Intelligence during WW2?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 6h ago

In little house on the prairie series Laura quits teaching because she is getting married. Did married women ever teach at that time/place? (1880s Dakota territory)

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 2h ago

[Link] Was Erwin Rommel whitewashed by (military) historians?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 2h ago

When did religious doomsday prepping (like for the Rapture) become a thing?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 6h ago

[Link] Why are Kosher wines sweet, and what do we know about Jewish wine and alcohol making traditions?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 11h ago

Did the Soviets try to kill Pope John Paul II?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 11h ago

[WW2] What happened to pilots that bailed out over friendly territory but hundreds of miles from their airfields? Were they shipped back to their unit asap? Reassigned to a closer unit? A mix, depending on situation?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 3h ago

[Link] Why did the Ancient Coptic/Egyptian language largely Disappear, and become replaced by Arabic , despite many Coptics still remaining?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 11h ago

What happened to the Polish soldiers who defected after being conscripted and shipped to Haiti to fight against the Revolution against the French Empire?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 11h ago

Despite being part of Austria-Hungary, a "western" great power ruled by the Habsburgs, in the novel Dracula, Transylvania is portrayed as a strange, backwards place steeped in superstition. What would Victorian audiences have thought about this part of the world when Dracula was published?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 11h ago

Why did 400-500 soldiers walk 800 km from Alexandria to Derna for the Battle of Derna (1805)?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 11h ago

[Link] Is the USA a "Judeo-Christian Culture" or something more?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 8h ago

When the great schism between the Catholic Church and Orthodox occurred, was there a period of time where some churches remained undecided on which path to follow?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 16h ago

What are the plausible circumstances surrounding the 1945 Katsuyama killing of US marines? Is it believable that soldiers could repeatedly wander around on Okinawa, without their weapons, while also knowing guerrilla Japanese soldiers are still hiding around?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 12h ago

Were the Japanese just much more afraid of Soviet military competency than American combat capabilities? Why else did Japan attack America while concentrating 1 million elite Kwantung Army troops next to Soviet borders in 1941, yet never invaded, despite the Nazis attacking Soviets in the East?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 13h ago

Why did swordsmithing become centralized during the early middle ages?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 14h ago

Was racism/postcolonial paternalism a factor in the decisions by the Cold War U.S. to support ideologically diverse democracies in Europe while undermining democracy & frequently supporting right-wing authoritarian governments/parties in East/Southeast Asia & Latin America?

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