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.
I was a little late to the party on a couple answers this week, but I quite enjoyed writing them:
/u/Valkine also wrote a neat essay on medieval military history as a field on that feudalism thread--I definitely recommend reading that, too!
/u/lord_mayor_of_reddit on Why are the largest Canadian cities up the Saint Lawrence, instead of on the coast?
/u/uncovered-history on Question regarding 17th century families in America
/u/cdesmoulins last week on Who is Shakespeare?
/u/GroupCaptain answered In retrospect, how certain was an Allied victory over the Axis? Was it clear cut, or were there real turning points that the Axis Powers could have used to win the war?
/u/bodombeachbod answered "In 1641, the Massachusetts Bay colonists prohibited husbands from beating their wives. How unique was this law? What were the circumstances that led to it?"