• There several two comments I particularly liked in the Holocaust denial thread, first was /u/AC_7 comment (check for /u/estherke's excellent work in the thread also in the thread, answering various specific claims of Holocaust denial, like here and shoot there was at least one more great one also looking at the details of train arrivals but I can't see it now), but also /u/heyheymse's comment that dealt with the Versailles treat, mainly because it included the line:

There might possibly be modern historians who view the Treaty of Versailles positively, but I am not aware of them. The historiographical argument with the Treaty of Versailles is not "was this an effective treaty?" but "who is to blame for this treaty being awful?"

Which is so often how I feel about academic debates. That is, the academia has come to a consensus and has moved on to a new question, but the public still wants to debate the old one (in sociology, one of the big ones I see a lot is "Is 'the ghetto' ordered or disordered?" [it's ordered, like everything else pretty much])

• another comment by /u/AC_7 about what the German public would have known about Stalingrad on Christmas Eve 1942

• /u/texpeare really proved his worth saying exactly what we know about Shakespeare (their follow ups are great, just do find search and read everything they wrote in the thread). They also had a good comment last week about the evidence for Hamlet before Hamlet was preformed

• I liked /u/vonadler's comment about what was exactly in the library of Alexandria

I really appreciated /u/agentdcf's response to a question about setting a novel in medieval Austria. It's an excellent reflection on the limits of historical fiction.

I want to thank /u/anthropology_nerd and /u/400-Rabbits for their answers to "What were cocoliztli and matlazahuatl, and how did these epidemics affect indigenous and colonial communities?

I'm a big fan of /u/yodatsracist this week for their critique of the "unleaded gasoline caused a drop in crime" theory and also for posting a good answer to this very difficult question about "pedophile rings."

I'd like to point out /u/reedstilt's post in the Pocahontas thread, which was very unjustly eclipsed by my earlier response.