Today:
Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Day of Reflection. Nobody can read everything that appears here each day, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
I really enjoyed /u/American_Graffiti's social context interpretation of a 1920s Life magazine cover.
I particularly enjoyed u/agentdcf's post earlier this week in response to u/stmorgante's question, "If you were to walk down a London street in the 1890s and ask people at varying economic strata "Why is the Empire important?" what answers would I receive?"
/u/idjet had an amazing answer in the medieval AMA on Friday about why "feudalism" is a problematic term to apply to medieval power relationships and social organization.
I enjoyed this week /u/400-Rabbits' answer on the often-asked question Did Europeans intentionally spread diseases to Native Americans? Where they even aware of their actions? and /u/Tiako talking about the Roman Economy.
Just a few that I managed to catch this week:
/u/backgrinder (already present) on Hunting for Sport.
/u/Gimpalong (a wild unflaired user appeared!) on With the German army massed of 2 million men, and barely any empire to justify it, why didn't Britain see WW1 coming and prepare her own army, rather than rely on the tiny BEF?
/u/Borimi on Before the Civil War were there any concrete plans to end slavery in America?
Also there's a pair of great just-posted answers from me_hercule and earthvexing_dewberry in the post on how big was the city of rome during the it's height in the roman empire?
If you haven't read /u/TheTeamCubed 's answer regarding the British liberation of Bergen-Belsen, you missed a great post by an unflaired user. A couple more posts like that, and i'll pretty much force them to get some flair.
There was an excellent discussion on classical Greek ship names between backgrinder, legalaction, and QVCattulus.
Sundays are always good for excellent posts, but they fall oddly for Day of Reflection posts. So, hot off the press:
/u/profrhodes and /u/EsotericR on When did the use of child soldiers start in Africa;
/u/NMW on Was propaganda ever openly referred to as propaganda?;
/u/alriclofgar on Dying with a sword; and
/u/TheSSir and /u/farquier on the historiography of art.