Today:
Welcome to this week's installment 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.
A few comments I enjoyed this week:
/u/reedstilt on What is a typical game of any pre columbian civilization?
/u/itsallfolklore on What differentiates folklore, mythology, and urban legend in it's historical study? (Links to whole post because he basically ran the table on that one.)
/u/canadianhistorian on Question about canadian identity.
And now a selection from last week that I didn't get a chance to post:
/u/tayaravaknin (again) on What was the female voter turnout like in the election following the passage of the 19th amendment in the US?
/u/anthropology_nerd on suppose I live in Boston in 1717. How far would have to travel to find a Native American tribe who have had no direct contact with white people in living memory? (a comment that got some outside attention, dontchaknow).
I always love /u/tayaravaknin's answers, his answers are always incredibly informative and very easy to read. There are two this week that I've enjoyed
And a second, I'm sure you've all seen, about the Munich Massacre
/u/labarge3 demonstrated an extensive knowledge of post-Roman economic development in North Africa, thus salvaging a thread that was rapidly turning into a long string of [DELETED].
Shout out to /u/molstern for being the only person to answer this week's Tuesday Trivia. :)
Excuse me, I am a newbie. Is this subreddit more about lying-on-surface (layman^? ) questions? I mean I've just read "hot" section and it seems to me many of those questions could be solved by looking up on Etymonline or Wikipedia or just Google.
By the way my question https://np.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/2f7l24/ . Any chances for answer?