Get pumped for another incredible edition of the Sunday Digest. We’ve got another top tier entry here, with a variety of threads that spans dozens of different topics, possibly dozens of authors and enough pure history FUN to keep you entertained for a solid week. I mean, it certainly did exactly that for me all last week.

Check out the special and regular features below! Don’t forget to upvote and thank your favorites! There was also a super special, super fun Birthday Special! The sub turned 8! And we all know what that means right? Only twelve more years till you can ask about our glorious birth, and roughly twenty-five before we can write about the Historian World Coup.

The first of the special features was Floating Feature: Do You Have a Story to Tell? Kenya Share the History of Africa?

STEM the Tide of Ignorance by Sharing the History of Science and Technology is still ongoing! So go! Go write about some sweet history or tech! Give me lots of stories to shout out next week.

I was a little disappointed in the turn out for Tuesday Trivia’s Sports day, but I’ll cheer for the home team anyway!

The Thursday Reading And Recommendations thread!

The always fun Friday Free For All!

/u/Zooasaurus and /u/Klesk_vs_Xaero rocked the Saturday Showcase!

That wraps us up for another week. Let me know what your favorite threads are, which answer you liked the best, and which one was the most memorable! I’ll see you next week!

OK, two weeks worth to catch up on!

/u/Abrytan answered "Kaiser Frederick III is frequently portrayed as a liberal reformer in favor of liberal democracy and opposed to militarism. He reigned for just 99 days before he died of throat cancer. How much of his reputation is deserved and were conservatives preparing to stonewall any attempts at reform?"

/u/afro-tastic answered "What happened to the slaves immediately after the end of slavery in America?"

/u/amp1212 answered "I often hear that "the Reagan administration shut down mental institutions and released the mentally ill into the streets." Is this an accurate assessment of the situation, and if not, what is the real story?"

A very special addition to the digest. Billy Graham was recorded as making extremely antisemitic comments to Nixon in 1972, but this tape was only released in 2002. What evidence existed of Graham's antisemitism before this? How common was this degree of antisemitism among Southern Evangelicals of his generation? has been one of this weeks most popular questions, and has sadly gone unanswered most of the week. But no more! Superstar /u/Sunagainstgold has finally cracked it, and given us a fantastic answer.

We’ve looked at the awesome answers, so now take a moment to consider the overlooked questions. These are merely a handful of the fascinating queries I came across that still need that wandering expert to come and illuminate them. Not as many this week because the vast majority I put aside got answered. So if there’s some other questions you saw that didn’t, post them up!

/u/ArctcMnkyBshLickr wanted to know about Did ancient civilizations of the Americas have any regional types of alcohol?

The OP deleted it, so frankly someone else is free to repost it, but I thought How did the concept of the weekend come to be and why is it standard to not work on weekends? was interesting.

/u/Layonixx asked about In game Europa Universalis IV certain provinces are seen as Centers of Trade, what made a city or a port a center of trade in real life?

There’s lots of unanswered questions in the Short Questions Short Answers thread!

It's very important that we also shout out and announce the coming special features.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday will see the next entry in the Tuesday Trivia series and it's going to be all about FIRE! Any time period, any location, come tell us all kinds of stories and history about fire. Did a historical figure get burned? Can you forge a brilliant answer on this all consuming topic? I want to see you there!

Thursday will host the next Floating Feature of the Summer Campaign! This time we cross the globe to visit Middle and South America! I want to hear everything. From Aztecs and Amazons, to Mexican independence and exploration.

The Summer campaign is almost over, just three more mega threads to go! If you've ever imagined yourself as a flair, or if you've ever wanted to share your favorite history with an audience of over a million subscribers, then come visit our floating features. This is one campaign that I promise will be over by Christmas, and you don't want to miss out!