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/Georgy_K_Zhukov 's master's thesis on the French Foreign Legion
And a shout out to /u/tayaravaknin who wrote an encyclopedia on the topic of Israeli land claims
Really enjoyed /u/Celebreth's answer talking about why Julius Caesar feared prosecution, immense amount of depth and explanation there!
A little late, but /u/shlin28 had an excellent post about human trafficking in the Late Roman Empire, a haunting depiction of the sort of brutality of this period.
/u/tayaravaknin's answer to What exactly happened when President Reagan fired all the striking air traffic controllers? How were they replaced? Was air safety compromised? deservedly got a lot of attention.
I really liked this “anthropological” thread on Homo Sapiens (with /u/Nora_Oie and /u/Aerandir as main contributors). A nice display of the incredible range of talents we have.