Highlighting couple of questions from last week that did not receive an answer and were popular and/or interesting:

/u/TheChivalrousRogue asked if Berkeley College students really sent medical supplies to the NVA during Vietnam

/u/David_Does_Dallas wanted to know if Spartans were schooled to regard their enemies as nameless and faceless

/u/caffarelli wanted to know How did the ballet Nutcracker become "for kids"

/u/jarod467 asked about the treatment of Loyalists after the Revolutionary War

/u/Kugelfang52 inquired about the truthfulness of Martin Luther being lecherous

I asked about medieval personal cooks

/u/awiseoldturtle pondered the taste of 19th century liquor

I almost never actually keep track of posts I liked, but I tagged a few this week...

• This one from /u/kieslowskifan was a delightful dive into the whims of royal patronage: Was ballet really banned by Joseph II in Austria?

• On a not-delightful note, /u/Snapshot52 digs into the question of genocide in the now-USA in I am in a class with a student who is adamant that the US Government is not responsible for the death of Native Americans, and has claimed there was no genocide- just unintentionally introduced germs. How correct is he?

• Fresh off the presses, /u/mikedash enthusiastically undertakes the question I am reading Eric Hobsbawm's "The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848" right now. I just realized it is over five decades old. How has the historiography evolved since then? What are some newer books/reviews/articles that would be worth looking into?. "What are some books worth reading" you ask? Well, get cozy cuz Mike's going to set you up with enough books to keep you busy for a long, long time :)

/u/RTarcher provided a very long and intricate response to my question about the English Reformation. Great read and a lot of information.

Busy week for me, sadly, so didn't get to read nearly as much stuff as I'd have liked. Nevertheless...

• /u/Snapshot52 answered "I am in a class with a student who is adamant that the US Government is not responsible for the death of Native Americans, and has claimed there was no genocide- just unintentionally introduced germs. How correct is he?"

• /u/commustar answered "Is our understanding of pre-modern history biased against cultures and civilizations located in regions that aren't conducive to stone-working or have a climate that fails to preserve written records or other relics?"

• /u/merryprankster2 on "Westerns usually show people wearing long underwear and heavy clothes (long sleeved shirts, vests, jackets), even in the sun. Is this accurate? Wouldn't they be hot?"