I'd just like to thank the amazing Civil War, World War II, and related historians here who handled the firestorm of Confederacy/statue/fascism questions this week with Olympian endurance. Someone finally asked the equivalent of "What did Hitler think about Confederate statues," and half of the mod team just about resigned on the spot. So please give an ENORMOUS round of applause to /u/commiespaceinvader, /u/The_Alaskan, /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov, [to be continued]

The ever-resourceful /u/sunagainstgold once again gave us a great answer on late medival attitudes toward moral behavior and who counted as "people" in What was considered basic human decency during the High Middle Ages?.

/u/wemptronics asked What was coverage of the American Civil War like by contemporary European journalists and newspapers?

/u/Jhuro asked Did Hitler (or any other high-profile Nazi) ever mention the Confederate States of America? How did Nazi Germany view the Confederacy?

/u/MyBossSawMyOldName asked Why are the ivy league colleges so prestigious and elite and well-known? Did their research cause them to become famous and desirable or was it the fact that they were bastions of the elite and privileged or was it due to their age and wealth?

• /u/azdac7 on "Is it fair to characterize the English Civil War as a religious war?"

• /u/maroontrojan on "The classic American nuclear family sitcom was so popular for so many decades, but is now so parodied and criticized that it seems impossible to make one for a contemporary audience without it being a complete subversion like Modern Family. Was the format itself a reaction against anything?"

• /u/petite-acorn on "Was civil unrest a major problem in the south after the American Civil War?"

I'd really like to see an answer to u/reus-in-aeternum's question How did the kitchen in medieval castles work? I did some browsing of my own, but it seems there's been a lot more emphasis on the food itself and recipes than the organization and administration of kitchens.

/u/guru_modicum (and myself) want to know how the British Empire went about turning the colonization and conquest of India into a money-making process. I'd be interested in learning about both the EIC period and after Company rule was ended. Any discussion of British imperialism in India as a money making process would be highly useful for this weeks theme!