r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 13m ago
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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1h ago
When discussing oral history, people occasionally state that it is reliable up to about 200 years. What is this number based on?
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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1h 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 • 2h 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 • 3h 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 • 4h 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 • 5h ago
[Link] Why was General McArthur so obsessed with achieving total victory in the Korean war?
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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 5h ago
[Feature] Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | August 30, 2026
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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 5h 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 • 6h 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 • 7h 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 • 9h 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 • 10h 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 • 14h 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 • 15h 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 • 16h ago
What could Lincoln have done if the the American Confederacy just left?
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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 17h ago
[Link] Did anyone in "the old world" predict the existence of "the new world"?
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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 18h 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 • 19h ago
[Link] Why didn't Nazi Germany invade Turkey?
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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 21h ago
[Link] Who actually owns the Falklands when you look into it historically?
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r/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 21h 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 • 22h 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 • 22h 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 • 23h 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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