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What's interesting is that Coolidge and Taft were night and day in regards to immigration. Taft vetoed a literacy test for immigrants while Coolidge signed something much more restrictive with the Immigration Act of 1924 (a literacy test was already made the law of the land ever since 1917).

Poland for Ashkenazi Jews?

Apparently this author claims to have uncovered some new evidence, but I don't know just how accurate and reliable this new evidence actually is. Anyway, even if Halpin claimed to have been raped, could she have been doing this in order to protect her honor and purity?

Apparently it's entirely possible that Grover Cleveland committed a rape before he ever ran for the US Presidency: https://archive.ph/yhKGq

Interesting. Is your professor famous? Or simply really knowledgeable without being famous?

Thanks. I was just wondering whether Asians might have had a different view on atheism than Europeans did. Asians don't come from the Judeo-Christian religious tradition, after all. (Well, not historically.) But fair point about Thomas Aquinas actually trying to think through this issue as...

Just how easy was it to be an atheist in the Middle Ages? Also, what do you think of my US history misconceptions above? More recently from US history, this 2010 academic article contains five myths about the 2000 Bush v. Gore US Supreme Court ruling near the bottom of this article...

What are some of the biggest historical misconceptions that you can think of? Personally, for me, one of them would be that Abraham Lincoln went to war to end slavery. No, he didn't: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths-about-why-the-south-seceded/2011/01/03/ABHr6jD_story.html...