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.
Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Here are some of the popular and/or interesting questions from the last week, which did not get an answer yet.
/u/burgerbarn wants to know what impact did WW2 have on the quality and manufacturing of European beers
/u/screwyoushadowban asked if if the economic elites in the American South remained largely the same after the Civil War
/u/KS1867 wonders if the Deer Hunter Russian roulette scene is based on existing records of Vietnamese torture of POWs
If I can plug one of my own: /u/tsojin asked about what people mean and why people often blame Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism for modern violent Islamist extremist movements. I took a stab at it making use of another not-too-well read previous post of mine here.
Let’s look back at the theme of the week! What did we learn about Native America? (please, jump in, if I missed anything!):
/u/anthropology_nerd was on fire, answering both what Native Americans would have lived in the Pamlico Sound region of North Carolina in the 1750s and the reasons behind Columbus’ statements about people in the Carribean having no religion
Similarly ignited was /u/RioAbajo answering if pre-20th century Native Americans excavated any Anasazi sites as well as how did the Native Americans’ knowledge of the natural world influenced European thinking
/u/PartyMoses answered what were the reasons of certain Native groups helping the Americans or British in the Revolutionary War
A day late, but here we go:
/u/lord_mayor_of_reddit on "Did filmmakers flee to Hollywood to escape patent laws?"
/u/spiritof454 on "Why do the Chinese hate the Dalai Lama so much?"
Not to toot my own horn too much, but these weren't popular questions. Therefore, I don't think many saw them and I put some time into them.
What was the relationship between the Nazi regime and German biblical studies?
Why was the American government apathetic towards the Holocaust prior to entering WWII?