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.
Well, I just got around to answering a great question from u/Xeluc, and I included links to an awesome podcast and lots of movie clips so I thought people might want to see it even thought the post is a day old already buried :-/
Last week I made a list of "pirate songs" that got very popular, but hardly anyone saw the followup post I made giving context and discussing quite a few other even more interesting songs about pirates that were actually published in popular broadsides during the heyday of piracy. I'm just saying if you really liked that post, you'd probably be interested in this too, so CHECK IT OUT!
r/JJVMT I'll tag you since it was in response to your post.
Am going to ignore your date range as fascist and would like to submit this very informative December conversation about melee combat that ranges from the Saxons to the US Civil war and delves into all different types, both infantry and calvary between two flaired users u/Hergrim and /u/hborrgg (and was not previously submitted, I believe).: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7j6m6t/the_effectiveness_of_hand_to_hand_combat_or_how/
Filling in for /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov today.
/u/freedmenspatrol answers 1863 NYC: Slavery: What was it like being a run-a-way slave in New York during the Civil War? How did run-a-way slaves disguise accents? What tactics did they use to blend in?
/u/LegalAction answers When the Roman Republic finally granted citizenship with sufferage to all Italian allies, which tribes were these new voters enrolled in?
/u/terminus-trantor on Question about colonial shipping reactions in early exploration stages.