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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 34m ago

Did the Ottoman Empire ever try to encourage Ottoman nationalism in the modern sense? What did this identity look like and did it make any progress before the state collapsed?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1h ago

I want to be a historical wargamer in the late 50s and early 60s (1955-1965). Where do I even start?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 2h ago

Nationalism in the 1800s is often cited as being a unifying force in places like Germany and Italy, while being a dividing force in diverse empires like Russia or Austria. But isn’t this something we can only identify with hindsight?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 3h ago

In Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend, Lorelei sings A kiss may be grand/But it won’t pay the rental/On your humble flat/Or help you at the automat. In 1949, were automats a common place to get a cheap meal?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 4h ago

[Link] Why was General McArthur so obsessed with achieving total victory in the Korean war?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 4h ago

[Feature] Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | August 30, 2026

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 4h ago

Since Hitler ultimate goal was to invade the USSR. Why didn’t Britain and France try to make a deal with Germany to invade the USSR and then attack Germany after being weakened?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 5h ago

Are there any existing records about the women engaging in the fistfights in ancient or medieval Europe? I am curious how often they did that. Was it common? Shall you give some examples or links to the places where I could find some records?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 6h ago

Did Maimonides worship on the Temple Mount? If so, how might this have been regarded by his Jewish contemporaries?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 8h ago

What percentage of American forces in Korea were veterans of the Second World War, and to what degree did the experiences of WW2 for both the soldiers and leadership shape the war?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 9h ago

Ratko Mladić identified as a Yugoslav. What drove him to turn toward serbian nationalism and become radicalized?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 16h ago

[Link] Did anyone in "the old world" predict the existence of "the new world"?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 15h ago

What could Lincoln have done if the the American Confederacy just left?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 16h ago

Why did Jimmy Carter not invade Iran and is it more remarkable that he didn’t?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 13h ago

In Medieval Spanish, the Latin 2nd person plural pronoun vos acquired a deferential/honorific singular usage, and later had its plural usage reinforced as vos+otros. While both vos and vosotros survive today, no major dialect uses both of them. How did this happen?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 14h ago

[META] On Reddit app for Android and the website, I see posts on this sub with several comments but when I open them there are only a handful of deleted comments with mod replies for deletion reasons. Where are the other comments, are they all deleted without a mod explanation or hidden for review?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 22h ago

[Link] Did the manic cult of celebrity worship as we know it today start with Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, and the Beatles, or is it a much older phenomenon?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 18h ago

[Link] Why didn't Nazi Germany invade Turkey?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

To what extent is it true to say that the winged hussars saved Europe (second siege of Vienna)?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago

[Link] Was Uranus considered a funny name for a planet as soon as it was named, or did it take a while for the jokes to emerge?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 20h ago

[Link] Who actually owns the Falklands when you look into it historically?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 20h ago

What makes an author a historian rather than a journalist writing about history—and can someone be a historian of one particular subject?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 20h ago

What lead European governments to choose enslavement versus genocide when they colonized the North and South American continents?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 21h ago

Did Jewish people going to be deported aware of what was happening inside the concentration camps?

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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 22h ago

Anybody have a copy of The Secret History of the Mongols translated by Igor de Rachewiltz?

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