Day of Reflection | September 29, 2014–October 05, 2014

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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.

lngwstksgk

Six hours posted and no one sharing, so I guess I'll go ahead:

  • This is a great pair of comments by /u/mhbeals about how historians deal with bias--a pretty fundamental question that didn't get a whole lot of attention.

  • /u/Trollhoffer's response comparing the Japanese Sengoku and American Wild West periods was also overlooked and interesting.

  • For more things I personally found to be quality, of course, you can always look at the Twitter, but I don't want to stop anyone else from sharing their favourites.