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Popular Themes in r/AskHistorians
#1
Advice Requests
: "It's 1800 in Virginia (or anywhere in the U.S.). What songs do I know off the top of my head? What am I singing at parties? At weddings? In taverns? What are the most popular jingles going around?"
98 posts
#2
Self-Promotion
: "Announcing the Best of June Award Winners!"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/AskHistorians
#1
History
: "At what point in History could a modern human with a good immune system travel back without infecting their self or others around them?"
62 posts
#2
America
: "What is the history of people being annoyed by the "America" in "United States of America" and "American"?"
10 posts
#3
Germany
: "Did Nazi Germany publicize their concentration camps, or were they built in secret?"
7 posts
#4
War
: "Did black soldiers fight the Japanese in World War II?"
7 posts
#5
Language
: "It's 70BC and most of Europe north of Italy is Celtic. Is our Language mutually intelligable?"
5 posts
#6
Europe
: "Immanuel Kant repeatedly indicates an openness to the possibility of, if not outright belief in, aliens. How weird a take was this for a European intellectual in the mid/late 1700s?"
5 posts
#7
Religion
: "What was the point of adding the Holy Spirit to the Trinity in the Early Church?"
4 posts
#8
Nazi Germany
: "What were Christians doing during Nazi Germany?"
4 posts
#9
Ww2
4 posts
#10
Wwii
4 posts
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