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 enjoyed this week:
/u/gingerkid1234 in What kept Jews from "Blending In" during WWII?
/u/backgrinder in How was New Orleans discovered and why did they establish a city in such harsh environment?
/u/XenophonTheAthenian in Why was the Spartan army so consistently successful on the battlefield?
/u/Qhapaqocha in What have we learned from Machu Pichu?
/u/Irishfafnir in Did the Republican party replace the Whigs?
/u/EsotericR & /u/khosikulu in The Colonisation of Africa and Land Grabbing
/u/coree in What did a siege look like, from a day to day perspective of the sieging army?
A shout-out to /u/Ferrard for his/her overlooked answer to the question "How succesful were the Russian GRU Spesnstaz against the Afgahn rebels throught the Soviet invasion?"
I enjoyed this really great, thorough answer to a tough question for answering in the confines of AH: /u/profrhodes on What are some factors of Zimbabwe's economic collapse? Thorough, comprehensive, and (as usual) gracious.
/u/agressivenutmeg had a wonderful response to my question on how marxist historians view the Iranian Revolution