r/AskHistorians • u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms • Dec 02 '19
Best Of Best of November Voting Thread
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Dec 02 '19
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Dec 02 '19
/u/vpltz answered "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?"
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Dec 02 '19
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u/Total_Markage Inactive Flair Dec 04 '19
Glad you enjoyed my answer. I would have gone more in depth if I knew it was going to get so much visibility.
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Dec 02 '19
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Dec 02 '19
/u/dhowlett1692 answered "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?"
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Dec 02 '19
/u/aeacus0 answered "Warfare."
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Dec 02 '19
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u/aquatermain Moderator | Argentina & Indigenous Studies | Musicology Dec 02 '19
Thank you for nominating me!
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Moderator | Dueling | Modern Warfare & Small Arms Dec 02 '19
/u/xenophontheathenian answered "The popular conception of the Late Republican and Imperial Roman countryside is a desolate wasteland, peopled only by slaves toiling miserably on latifundia. Is this perception still considered accurate by historians?"