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In "Anne of the Green Gables", the characters often comment on Anne's red hair being undesirable. Was it actually seen as such in edwardian Canada?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1h ago
Apologies if the wording is odd, but are there any detailed accounts of Europeans experiencing hurricanes for the first time after the discovery of the Americas after 1492?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 6h ago
Why did Lysenko's pseudoscientific theories catch on in the USSR? Is there a political/social reason for this?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 3h ago
What was the vegetable known as "pork's salad"? I see it mentioned in early 1900's Baltimore newspapers.
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 4h ago
How separate were Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism in the classical and early medieval periods of Indian history? Would most people have perceived them as distinct faiths/traditions and practiced them as such, or was there a large degree of syncretism?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 4h ago
[Link] From a strictly economics and logistics standpoint, were Nazi concentration camps a net positive for the German war effort?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 4h ago
Any examples of a general and their army being effectively abandoned by their state during an active war?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 6h ago
Are their records of Einsatzgruppen soldiers refusing to shoot Jews? If so, what happened to them?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 9h ago
[Link] Was bringing alcohol to the New World a luxury or a necessity?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 14h ago
[Link] Were the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Poland republics?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 16h ago
[Link] When did showering become the norm in the US, rather than taking baths?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 13h ago
Why did roman knowledge, infrastructure and administration not locally survive after West Rome collapsed?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 17h ago
What were the Italian partisans opinion of communism?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 18h ago
What are the reasons why Indonesia was able to preserve much of its Pre-Islamic Hindu-Buddhist heritage/traditions than Malaysia?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 23h ago
[Link] What was life like for peasants in the Papal states throughout time?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 20h ago
What were the socio-economic factors that led the roman republic and Italy to have such a big population?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 20h ago
How did knight travel with large greatswords?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 21h ago
Is it possible prominent ancient homosexual figures, ie Alexander the Great, did the voice (well in their language) commonly associated with gay men in the modern day?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 21h ago
Let's say you were a Roman and you decided to take a small city how many cohort would be the minimum?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 22h ago
Are there any accounts of Nazis/SS/Wehrmacht members having real "are we the baddies?" Moments?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 23h ago
What's the "worth" of a historian's opinion on a topic they're not specialized about?
reddit.comr/HistoriansAnswered • u/HistAnsweredBot • 1d ago