Today:
Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, 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.
Weekly rundown!
/u/lordhighbrewer on commanders at the front
/u/profrhodes answered "What was white Rhodesia's 'endgame' during the Bush War?"
/u/dhowlett1692 on "Why did the Salem witch trials start?"
This week I have been mostly reading:
/u/Axon350 gave a concise and informative account of how Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky was able to produce such lively and vivid color photographs more than a hundred years ago.
Maybe it was the topic but I particularly enjoyed /u/Aerandir's responses to the question of how the Franks managed to conquer/settle "Germania"?
There were other strong answers in the thread but I really enjoyed /u/itsallfolklore's discussion of the origins of legends in a discussion about whether King Arthur existed.
/u/deflegg did a great job of answering about the conventions 16th century longsword fencing. Quite a few answers in this thread were purely focused on discussions of HEMA technique, while completely ignoring the historical context. /u/delflegg did an excellent job of blending both context and technique into their answer.
/u/RioAbajo wrote a very nice answer on the archeology of lentils.
Hey, Mesoamericanists! You missed the ballgame.