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 don't usually toot my own horn in the weekly overlooked thread, but I put some effort into this answer which got one upvote, in a question that had one upvote: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4vkg6l/was_preislamic_arabia_as_barbaric_as_they_say/d5zbkmv?context=3
u/SpartanOfThePast asked a follow up question about whether armour was inheritted and used by multiple generations. This is an interesting and complicated topic, and I finally finished my answer today.
/u/sowser answered "At the peak of slavery in the continental United States, what percentage of the population would have owned one or more slaves?" and "Buck Breaking of Slaves"
/u/commiespaceinvader answered "Marxist historical analyses of the Holocaust." and on "How much was the SS a "vacuum" for actual psychopaths?"
/u/alvisefalier on "Great political rivals in the Italian city states; were there any?"
I wrote an answer to an understandably overlooked question, describing how the RN captured and re-used two German U-boats in WW2 - https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4w4myu/are_there_any_cases_of_the_allies_scavenging_and/d640mtm.
/u/XenophonTheAthenian gave an excellent on the [differences between Roman and modern urban life] (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4wgyjq/what_would_life_in_the_roman_empire_be_similar_to/d66yq6x)
I would like to point to this great thread Why do historians reject moral presentism, where we had several flairs and other users providing great discussion material and answers.
/u/keyilan gave a very insightful answer in response to my question on the taiping rebellion with a follow up answer on the Hakka-Punti clan wars
/u/Rittermeister answered a question earlier this week about whether knights were likely to be seriously injured from falling off their horse