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.
In honor of my one-year anniversary brave enough to post in AH, here is my first ever answer in the sub. With its distillation of an awesome topic (religious persecution! stake burnings! drownings! fugitives!) into utterly dry prose rightfully earning a total of 2 upvotes--including the freebie--we can be glad that times and people change.
For those of you keeping score at home, the core of my historical expertise is celibate medieval holy women. My top AH answers are on snails, alien anal probes, prostitution, rape, and prostitution.
/u/sunagainstgold hit it out of the park with responses about [the 1519 election of the Holy Roman Emperor] (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/525j41/in_the_1519_election_the_viable_candidates_for/) and [competition between black and white schools during segregation] (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/51ymkp/during_the_time_of_segregation_did_white_and/).
/u/itsallfolklore gave a really interesting response about [the origin of the Wild Hunt myth] (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/51voet/what_are_the_origins_of_the_wild_hunt_myth/).
And not to toot my own horn, but I am rather proud of my response [on Late Antique elite clothing] (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/51kuhi/when_did_the_romans_completely_abandoned_the/), as it's a very niche area of my knowledge that I enjoy being able to discuss.
Rundown:
/u/the_howling_cow answered "Say I was a healthy 25 year old male civilian in the United States in 1941. What are my chances of getting drafted in the next couple of years and what can I expect?" and on "Were medics in WW2 permitted to have weapons?" and on "In Saving Private Ryan, Private Jackson was the only sniper in the company. Were spotters not a around in WWII? When were they implemented?"
/u/papiriuscursor on "Ancient Greek men thought the ideal male body possessed a small penis. Do we have any idea what Greek women thought?"
/u/freedmenspatrol on ""The founding fathers had a choice: either they build a country on the backs of slaves, or they don't build a country at all." How accurate is this statement?"
/u/WARitter on footsoldier armor in the late medieval period
