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.
I've got a long list because I have no life.
Homosexuality in Alutiiq culture by /u/the_Alaskan, it was fascinating to learn about the akhnuohiki.
Popular Western narrative paints Soviet leadership as consisting largely of hypocrites and opportunists as opposed to "true believers" in Communism. How accurate is this depiction by /u/holokyn-kolokyn
Gallic Druids as philosophers by /u/Depanneur. I'd never thought of druids as philosophers, or rather had a very narrow and Greco-Roman centric (?) image of ancient philosophers, so this was very educational and eye opening!
My rundown for the week:
/u/Iphikrates answered "Phalanx Exceptionalism: what distinguishes the Greek Hoplite Phalanx from the next shield-wall of violent men with pointy sticks?" and "How historically accurate is the film 300?"
/u/kieslowskifan on "How much can I trust Albert Speer's memoir: Inside the Third Reich?"
/u/snapshot52 answered "There was military involvement by the United States Army to reduce American Bison populations as a way of starving Native Americans. Some Questions."