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 haven't asked many questions here before, so was especially delighted to get basically a cultural history of Belgian comics through u/ElMejorPinguino 's various answers to that question. Fun and interesting.
Moving back a few centuries I also enjoyed u/terminus-trantor 's Showcase on Did the first European explorers understand that the Southern Hemisphere experienced reversed seasons and why? this week (not a question in the sub per se, but a bit overlooked I guess).
/u/NientedeNada gave an awesome answer from out of left field on the sustainability of Native American bison hunts, and ably answered several follow-up questions!
I'm still looking for more info on my question from earlier. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8k8v6d/looking_for_sources_regarding_the_government_and/
I have found a few local sources about the feds working with the Klan to battle organized crime and against the unionization of lumberjacks. I would like to know if there are sources from outside my community as well.
Sorry, I'd been sitting on half of this answer for a month, but it is now posted: Why did so many British civil servants used to study classics in university?
I'd like to highlight a really great answer from /u/commiespaceinvader to my question about whether we should think about Nazi Germany as applying colonialism to Eastern Europe: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8klwnr/is_it_fair_to_say_that_nazi_germany_applied_the/
The post itself didn't get a whole lot of traction, but I learned a lot from his response
I thought u/611131 gave a really great answer about pirates and lakes.
I had a rather lengthy answer on the forms of armour used in the 15th and 16th centuries and to what extent medieval soldiers wore 'light' or 'heavy' armour. Plus some digressions on the difference between the medieval trade in and use of armour and its use in games, both video and pen and paper.
This was a good answer to Jewish involvement in the Spanish Civil War by u/crrpit. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8kaohp/what_role_did_european_jews_play_in_the_spanish/