Please give us your favorite answers past and present, and feel free to nominate yourself.
Past Categories: Military History, Asia, Africa, Middle and South America, Middle East, Medieval World, Ancient World, North America, Europe, Cultural History
This answer on the devil's pitchfork.
I would like to nominate a couple of my previous answers:
*What Were the Main Differences Between the Austrian and French Armies during the Napoleonic Wars
*Why were cavalry still effective in the Napoleonic Wars
*How did Michel Ney, a compentant commander his whole career, screw up so badly at Waterloo (Answer, he was a British sleeper agent).
All military, although the first could also be European since it has to deal with social, economic, and political causes of a military machine.
Did /u/heyheymse's Roman dating choose your adventure get covered? /u/brigantus on the many myths of prehistory? /u/daeres on slaves and archeology?
Not sure where this would fit in, but I liked /u/restricteddata on the value of a history degree.
I remember being particularly struck by an answer about eunuchs. In particular, something about how people in the past would recognize eunuchs by their physical features, and that this is something lost in modern times, and that some journalists/commentators attacked eunuchs/castrati for their appearance. I've looked, but I can't find it. I assumed that the comment was made by /u/caffarelli, but I could be mistaken. I would love it if someone could find this answer.
edit: From /u/cafferelli's response, this is the commend I was thinking of.
/u/shlin28 wrote an amazing two part answer to Are there any post Western Roman Empire Roman sources or commentaries on life after and under Germanic or Frankish rule?.
Shlin's my hero.
Since I missed the Middle and South America topic, I want to nominate my Aztlan post.
I don't remember seeing one of these threads, so here's my Japanese armour and weapons post.
My favorite answers that I have made in this sub are the following:
I recently read a quote saying people die twice. The first when they physically die and the second when the last person that knows their name dies. So who's the oldest person we know the name of? (this seems to be my best-received comment to date.)
Who were the sea people that invaded egypt in ancient history?
Was the "Bronze Age Collapse" inevitable? (the whole thread, as my answers were there /u/Tiako had a good one too.
Anyway, those are the ones I've posted that I like the most.
A personal favorite which I think was one of the best read on this subreddit, written by /u/Tayaravaknin (it was also so long, it had to be spreaded over two replies!); it is about the Air Traffic Controllers strike in the United States in 1981:
How was conventional artillery used in World War 2.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/31nbzs/how_was_conventional_artillery_used_in_world_war_2/cq362na
I found this very informative. As an American, you often hear about how we helped save the world in WWII, but this is specific detail on how our artillery worked.
I would like to nominate my question which brought about some amazing answers. I'm still reading them! https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/uimr7/historians_if_i_was_to_only_read_one_book_from/
I'd never seen these before, but I'll submit the three answers I'm most proud of. On the early modern curio trade, On Cromwell and the monarchy, and Food in the Stuart Court.
I cant find it but somebody in the last week or two had a great answer on the absence of bodies in American pictures of the Hiroshima aftermath, countering that sterile picture with the drawings of survivors. It was informative, well sourced with examples of pictures and drawings, gut-wrenching, and topical.
How did the SPA go from holding thousands of offices to being wiped off the face of the earth in a decade numerous answers in this thread I think are fantastic and show different events from different areas around the US from different Historians.