Greetings one and all! It’s time for my favorite day of the week. The Sunday Digest! I was away for a good portion of last week, so I’ve been going back and reading things I missed. So we’ve got a big one this week, and it includes some gems that are bit older then just this week.

In other news, I made the terrible mistake of accidently clicking to open the whole folder in the tab and it froze my computer for more then long enough to worry me.

Let’s follow our usual pattern and start us off by shouting out the fantastic regular and irregular features. Such as the following great threads; AskHistorians Podcast 126 -- AH Is Uncovering History with Dig features a very interesting trio of women from @dig_history talking about history podcasting itself!

The Friday Free-for-All | December 07, 2018!

The Saturday Showcase | December 08, 2018.

The Tuesday Trivia: “Invade Russia in the Winter” & Other Bad Decisions! This thread has relaxed standards and we invite everyone to participate. was a banger this week. With just so many great comments from so many people. Also really puts into perspective just how low priority freezing my computer is.

Although not a sub feature, I think a prime spot absolutely belongs to the phenomenal I wrote my PhD dissertation on AskHistorians! Rather than ask you to read the whole thing, I’ve summed up my findings in three posts. This is Part 1, on learning and knowledge exchange in AskHistorians. and it’s author /u/SarahAGilbert

This took me about four and a half hours. I think that's a new record.

Why did Zoroastrianism stop spreading?, was it because the Persian Empire was conquered? by /u/lcnielsen

/u/AlmightyB answered "What were the main political consecuences of the refugee crisis that surged as a result of the Spanish Civil War? How were this refugees portrayed by the media of different political ideologies and how were they generally recieved by the popuation?"

/u/Ucumu answered "How much of the Native americans deaths were caused by diseases and how much by the colonial powers ?"

/u/jonewer on "WWI BEF Cavalry - Recruitment, Training, Culture, Organization, Tactical Development?"

• I'm over a week late with this answer so it's super overlooked, on What can you tell me about the use of the name "Mexico" for all of New Spain before independence? I had thought that the name was rarely used to refer to what's now Mexico before it became independent.

With this one I feel like I've now got a bit of a conceptual history (so the historical meaning of terms) of colonial Mexico and Spanish America on AH. Just gonna add the others here, also so I have them together in one place:

• People: Aztecs (shorter) ~~ Spanish names for the Aztecs and vice versa

• Places: [Edit:] pre-Hispanic names for regions in Mesoamerica & Peru (Anáhuac, Tawantinsuyu) ~~ How did the Spanish call the Americas before that name caught on? (las indias, nuevo mundo etc.) ~~ Also related: the "reconquista"