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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 2h ago

[Link] Why did women lose the right to vote in New Jersey in 1807?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 2h ago

What was alcohol/drinking like in colonial America?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 3h ago

[Link] Is the movie "europa the last battle" credible in any way?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1h ago

When did News, as in Jornalism, started being a thing?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 3h ago

Were the cultures of the Eurasian steppe nomads truly so militaristic as often portrayed?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 4h ago

What books could I get in Tang China?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 4h ago

Before the proliferation of email, were people getting just as much paper mail in their personal and professional lives? Or did email dramatically increase the amount of messages people have to read.

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 4h ago

[Link] Are there any events in the history of the British Empire, that historians consider to be acts of genocide ?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 4h ago

[Link] Office Hours August 31, 2026: Questions and Discussion about Navigating Academia, School, and the Subreddit

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 4h ago

Are there clear records of how long journeys took on horseback, by carriage, and on foot during the Middle Ages? And how were long journeys of this kind viewed?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 5h ago

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 6h ago

How did the politics of Northern Ireland become so incomprehensible to British politicans in the lead up to the Troubles?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 6h ago

why does the greco-roman religion fused the sky father deity with the thunder god characteristic?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 15h ago

why did the people of wales convert to christianity? and do we have proof of any populations opposing it?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 7h ago

What was Henry VIII's motivation in marrying Catherine Parr?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 7h ago

What were attitudes towards gay transgender people like historically?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 7h ago

The Soviet Great Purge is popularly attributed to Stalin alone. However, how much of the great purge was actually the work of Nikolai Yezhov?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 7h ago

AMA: I’m Ronald “Ron” M. James, historian and folklorist with a recent book integrating the two fields

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 8h ago

How did cargo train transportation evolve in southeastern France?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 8h ago

When and why did modern day Czechia stop being Bohemia?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 16h ago

[Link] Before tea and coffee were introduced to Europe, what hot drinks (if any) did Europeans consume?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 9h ago

Is that common trope of sacrificing virgins real?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 22h ago

Why is it that the leaders of the American Revolution established the United states as a society centered around the Common Man when most of them were elites?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 22h ago

I am a young lower-class Han girl in 1880s Shunde, Guangdong, and I am not Hakka or Tanka. What are the factors that affected whether to bind my feet and the method of binding?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

In Metal Gear Solid (1998), the player meets Otacon, who patiently explains that his codename is short for 'Otaku Convention', referring to his love of anime. How accessible would anime have been to someone like Otacon at the time, and how well known were terms like 'otaku' outside of Japan?

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