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True or False? "Nancy Reagan was deeply committed to seeking her destiny in astrology."
True or False? "Carter, the most conservative Democrat on economic policies since Grover Cleveland, failed at reviving the economy, and was badly damaged by Ted Kennedy's primary challenge."
Was the presidency of William Howard Taft a success or a failure?
Did President George W. Bush lie about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction?
Was the presidency of John Quincy Adams a success or a failure?
True or False? "George W. Bush was on the far right."
True or False? "The Iraq war was one of Bush's biggest failures."
Was Pope John Paul II's papacy a success or a failure?
True or False? "No one did more to successfully address the problem of priestly sexual abuse than Joseph Ratzinger."
Was Pope Benedict XVI right to abdicate the papacy?
True or False? "Two Black Union Soldiers In all over 200,000 Civil War black soldiers served in the Union army and navy; ten percent of the Union army was black."
True or False? "The Union defeated the Confederacy: the Confederacy did not defeat itself."
True or False? "But even in 1864-5, letters, diaries and newspapers reveal a tenacious popular will rooted in a sense of national community."
True or False? "All the evidence suggests that most Southerners went to war to preserve their peculiar institution and remained committed to it to the end."
True or False? "The notion that many Southern whites felt moral qualms about slavery, which undermined their will to fight a war to preserve it, is even less convincing."
True or False? "Far from being a reason for defeat, the strength of Confederate nationalism explains why most Southerners fought as long and hard as they did."
True or False? "This failure does not mean that the offensive-defensive strategy was flawed. There was no other rational strategy."
True or False? "The North won the Civil War because of superior generalship."
True or False? "Most Southerners recognised that a guerrilla war would simply extend the misery with little prospect of winning independence."
True or False? "The only hope in Lee’s view (and surely he was right) was to retain the initiative and risk attack, hoping for a great Waterloo-type victory."
In the United States Civil War, which side had better generals?

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True or False? "Gettysburg and Vicksburg dictated the inevitable outcome of the Civil War."
True or False? "Abraham Lincoln was a better war president than Jefferson Davis."
True or False? "We can't fault the Southerners for thinking at the time that they could win when we can see in retrospect that there probably never was a time when they could have."
True or False? "There was probably never any chance of it winning without European recognition and military aid."
True or False? "And we can now see in retrospect what some, like Jefferson Davis, even saw at the time, which was that there was never any real hope of Europe intervening."
What is the greatest rock song of all time?
True or False? "Neither candidate of the major parties is qualified to be president."
True or False? "By its very nature, government education represents repudiation—rejection—of God’s law."
Was composer George Handel a homosexual?

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Incomplete Disputes

True or False? "Nancy Reagan was deeply committed to seeking her destiny in astrology."

True or False? "Carter, the most conservative Democrat on economic policies since Grover Cleveland, failed at reviving the economy, and was badly damaged by Ted Kennedy's primary challenge."

Was the presidency of William Howard Taft a success or a failure?

Did President George W. Bush lie about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction?

Was the presidency of John Quincy Adams a success or a failure?

True or False? "George W. Bush was on the far right."

True or False? "The Iraq war was one of Bush's biggest failures."

Was Pope John Paul II's papacy a success or a failure?

True or False? "No one did more to successfully address the problem of priestly sexual abuse than Joseph Ratzinger."

Was Pope Benedict XVI right to abdicate the papacy?

True or False? "Two Black Union Soldiers In all over 200,000 Civil War black soldiers served in the Union army and navy; ten percent of the Union army was black."

True or False? "The Union defeated the Confederacy: the Confederacy did not defeat itself."

True or False? "But even in 1864-5, letters, diaries and newspapers reveal a tenacious popular will rooted in a sense of national community."

True or False? "All the evidence suggests that most Southerners went to war to preserve their peculiar institution and remained committed to it to the end."

True or False? "The notion that many Southern whites felt moral qualms about slavery, which undermined their will to fight a war to preserve it, is even less convincing."

True or False? "Far from being a reason for defeat, the strength of Confederate nationalism explains why most Southerners fought as long and hard as they did."

True or False? "This failure does not mean that the offensive-defensive strategy was flawed. There was no other rational strategy."

True or False? "The North won the Civil War because of superior generalship."

True or False? "Most Southerners recognised that a guerrilla war would simply extend the misery with little prospect of winning independence."

True or False? "The only hope in Lee’s view (and surely he was right) was to retain the initiative and risk attack, hoping for a great Waterloo-type victory."

In the United States Civil War, which side had better generals?

True or False? "Gettysburg and Vicksburg dictated the inevitable outcome of the Civil War."

True or False? "Abraham Lincoln was a better war president than Jefferson Davis."

True or False? "We can't fault the Southerners for thinking at the time that they could win when we can see in retrospect that there probably never was a time when they could have."

True or False? "There was probably never any chance of it winning without European recognition and military aid."

True or False? "And we can now see in retrospect what some, like Jefferson Davis, even saw at the time, which was that there was never any real hope of Europe intervening."

What is the greatest rock song of all time?

True or False? "Neither candidate of the major parties is qualified to be president."

True or False? "By its very nature, government education represents repudiation—rejection—of God’s law."

Was composer George Handel a homosexual?

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