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.
Here it is, the weekly rundown:
/u/tobbinator answered "Was Francisco Franco a fascist or was his ideology different enough from that of Hitler and Mussolini to be considered a distinct political philosophy?"
/u/commiespaceinvader answered "How is Timothy Snyder's "Bloodlands" viewed by historians?" and also on 'The lives and experiences of Black people in Nazi Germany'.
/u/kaisermatias on "Why did Abkhazian's wanted independence from Georgia so strongly?"
/u/thekev506 and /u/I_am_a_Pixel teamed up to tell us about fighter pilot culture transcending enemy lines in World War I and World War II respectively.
/u/alriclofgar deployed a masterful knowledge of English archaeology to show how historians are re-telling the story of the Anglo-Saxon conquest...or is it "conquest"?
I really liked /u/jschooltiger's brilliant answer to my question about how ships were designed and built in the 18th and 19th Century here.
Hopefully /u/SmokedApple will see it, but I finally got around to answering their question (several days late) on the role of the church --which I took to mean ecclesiastical organizations and infrastructure-- in the growth of Western Christianity from 300-800. I'm still working on putting together a reading list for the post, but hey, there it is.